What is the meaning of found?

noun

• Food and lodging provided in addition to money.
  • usage: "they worked for $30 and found"

verb

• Come upon, as if by accident; meet with.
  • usage: "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
  • synonyms: find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
• Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
  • usage: "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
  • synonyms: detect, observe, find, discover, notice
• Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.
  • usage: "Did you find your glasses"; "I cannot find my gloves"
  • synonyms: find, regain
• Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.
  • usage: "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
  • synonyms: determine, find, find out, ascertain
• Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds.
  • usage: "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
  • synonyms: find, feel
• Perceive or be contemporaneous with.
  • usage: "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
  • synonyms: witness, find, see
• Get something or somebody for a specific purpose.
  • usage: "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
  • synonyms: line up, get hold, come up, find
• Make a discovery, make a new finding.
  • usage: "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
  • synonyms: discover, find
• Make a discovery.
  • usage: "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
  • synonyms: discover, find
• Obtain through effort or management.
  • usage: "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college"
  • synonyms: find
• Decide on and make a declaration about.
  • usage: "find someone guilty"
  • synonyms: rule, find
• Receive a specified treatment (abstract. )
  • usage: "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
  • synonyms: receive, get, find, obtain, incur
• Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place.
  • usage: "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
  • synonyms: find
• Get or find back; recover the use of.
  • usage: "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
  • synonyms: recover, retrieve, find, regain
• Succeed in reaching; arrive at.
  • usage: "The arrow found its mark"
  • synonyms: find
• Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation.
  • usage: "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
  • synonyms: find oneself, find
• Set up or found.
  • usage: "She set up a literacy program"
  • synonyms: establish, set up, launch
• Set up or lay the groundwork for.
  • usage: "establish a new department"
  • synonyms: establish, plant, constitute, institute
• Use as a basis for; found on.
  • usage: "base a claim on some observation"
  • synonyms: establish, base, ground

adjective

• Come upon unexpectedly or after searching.
  • usage: "found art"; "the lost-and-found department"