different between find vs conclude
find
English
Etymology
From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþan? (compare West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”), *póntoh?s (compare English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin p?ns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek ?????? (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian ???? (hun, “ford”), Avestan ????????????????????? (pa?t??), Sanskrit ?? (pathá, “path”)).
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?nd, IPA(key): /fa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
- Homophone: fined
Verb
find (third-person singular simple present finds, present participle finding, simple past found or (dialectal) fand, past participle found or (archaic) founden)
- (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Request
- Among the Woods and Forests thou art found.
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Request
- (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- (transitive) To point out.
- (ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Request
- The torrid zone is now found habitable.
- 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Request
- (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
- (transitive, archaic) To provide for
- 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies
- Nothing a day and find yourself.
- 1892, W. E. Swanton, Notes on New Zealand
- the pay is good, the musterer receiving ten shillings a day, and all found, all the time he is engaged on the "run," even should he be compelled to remain idle on account of rain or mist.
- 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies
- (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
- (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
- 1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin 2010, page 57:
- They found at once, and there was a short sharp run, during which Linda and Tony, both in a somewhat showing-off mood, rode side by side over the stone walls.
- 1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin 2010, page 57:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Antonyms
- lose
Derived terms
- befind
- findable
- finder
- hard-to-find
- viewfinder
- unfindable
Related terms
See also finding and found
Translations
Noun
find (plural finds)
- Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
- The act of finding.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
- (anything found): discovery, catch
Translations
Further reading
- find in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- find in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- NFID
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fend/, [fen?]
- Rhymes: -end
Verb
find
- imperative of finde
Middle English
Noun
find (plural findes)
- Alternative form of feend
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conclude
English
Etymology
From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin concl?dere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of concl?d?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n.?klu?d/
Verb
conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)
- (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
- The story concluded with a moral.
- (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
- to conclude a bargain
- (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
- From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies
- No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
- (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.
- The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
- A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
- (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
- (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
Antonyms
- (to end): begin, initiate, start, commence
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ude
Verb
conclude
- third-person singular present indicative of concludere
Latin
Verb
concl?de
- second-person singular present active imperative of concl?d?
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