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find:

The noun find has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. discovery, breakthrough, find -- (a productive insight)
2. discovery, find, uncovering -- (the act of discovering something)

The verb find has 16 senses (first 13 from tagged texts)

1. (159) find, happen, chance, bump, encounter -- (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")
2. (141) detect, observe, find, discover, notice -- (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")
3. (86) find, regain -- (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!")
4. (57) determine, find, find out, ascertain -- (establish 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")
5. (57) find, feel -- (come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining")
6. (45) witness, find, see -- (perceive or be contemporaneous with; "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")
7. (41) line up, get hold, come up, find -- (get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "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")
8. (34) discover, find -- (make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle")
9. (29) discover, find -- (make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover")
10. (16) find -- (obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college")
11. (16) rule, find -- (decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty")
12. (13) receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (receive a specified treatment (abstract); "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")
13. (11) find -- (perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room")
14. recover, retrieve, find, regain -- (get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly")
15. find -- (succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark")
16. find oneself, find -- (accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself")

a:

The noun a has 7 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (6) angstrom, angstrom unit, A -- (a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation)
2. vitamin A, antiophthalmic factor, axerophthol, A -- (any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes)
3. deoxyadenosine monophosphate, A -- (one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose))
4. adenine, A -- ((biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA)
5. ampere, amp, A -- (the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps")
6. A, a -- (the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet)
7. A, type A, group A -- (the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen)

rink:

The noun rink has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. rink, skating rink -- (building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating)

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