different between find vs regard

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)

1. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
   • a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Request

     Among the Woods and Forests thou art found.

2. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
3. (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.

4. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.

5. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

6. (transitive) To point out.

7. (ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
   • 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Request

     The torrid zone is now found habitable.
8. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
9. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.

10. (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.

11. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.

12. (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.

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)

1. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
2. 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

1. imperative of finde

Middle English

Noun

find (plural findes)

1. Alternative form of feend

English

Alternative forms

• regarde, reguard, reguarde (all obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??????d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??????d/
• Hyphenation: re?gard
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard, reward, guardian, and so on.

Noun

regard (countable and uncountable, plural regards)

1. (countable) A steady look, a gaze. [from 15th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750:

     He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.

2. One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. [from 16th c.]
3. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]
   • 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:

     This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]

   • 1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399:

     These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.

4. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

   He is held in great regard in Whitehall.

Derived terms

• disregard
• in regard
• in regard of
• in regard to
• with regard to

Synonyms

• consideration, onlook, respect

Antonyms

• (concern for another): neglect

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English regarden, from Old French regarder, reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.

Verb

regard (third-person singular simple present regards, present participle regarding, simple past and past participle regarded)

1. To look at; to observe. [from 16th c.]

2. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. [from 16th c.]
   • , [Act V, scene iv]:

     Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, / Your neece regards me with an eye of fauour.
3. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive) To face toward.
5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern. [from 17th c.]
6. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. [from 16th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 18:2:

     Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.

Derived terms

• regardable
• regarder
• regardless
• self-regarding

Synonyms

• (to look at): See Thesaurus:look
• (to consider): See Thesaurus:deem
• (to take notice of): See Thesaurus:pay attention

Antonyms

• ignore
• neglect

Translations

Anagrams

• Drager, Gerard, Grader, grader, red rag, redrag

French

Etymology

From Middle French regard, from Old French regard, from reguarder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a?/

Noun

regard m (plural regards)

1. look, glance

2. (uncountable) sight, gaze, eyes
   • 1885, Loreau, Heriette (trans.), L’Ami commun (Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens), Part IV, chapter 10:

3. manhole

Related terms

• regarder

Further reading

• “regard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• garder, Gérard

Old French

Alternative forms

• regart, resgard, resgart, regarde

Noun

regard m (oblique plural regarz or regartz, nominative singular regarz or regartz, nominative plural regard)

1. look; observance; watching (act, instance of looking at)

Descendants

• Middle French: regard
  • ? Middle English: regard, regarde
    • English: regard

References

• regard on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub