find

How to sign: come upon, as if by accident; meet with
"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";

Similiar / Same: bump, encounter, chance, happen

find

How to sign: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
"She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint";

Similiar / Same: detect, observe, discover, notice

Categories: sight

Within this category: find out, instantiate, see, sense, trace

find

How to sign: get or find back; recover the use of
"She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly";

Similiar / Same: recover, retrieve, regain

Categories: acquire, get

Within this category: access

find

How to sign: after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
"find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize";

Similiar / Same: determine, find out, ascertain

Within this category: admeasure, count, gauge, rectify, redetermine, refract, sequence, situate, translate