find out (verb)
1find out — verb 1. establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study (Freq. 33) find the product of two numbers The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize • Syn: ↑determine, ↑find, ↑ascertain • Der …
2find out — verb Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to learn by study, observation, or search ; discover 2. a. to catch in an offense (as a crime) < the culprits were soon found out > b. to ascertain the true character or identity of < the informer was… …
3find out — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you find something out, you learn something that you did not already know, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so. [V P wh] It makes you want to watch the next episode to find out what s going to happen... [V P that] …
4find out — phrasal verb Word forms find out : present tense I/you/we/they find out he/she/it finds out present participle finding out past tense found out past participle found out 1) [intransitive/transitive] to discover a fact or piece of information We… …
5ˌfind ˈout — phrasal verb to discover a fact or piece of information I don t want Jerry to find out about this.[/ex] I want to find out what happened.[/ex] Her parents found out that she had a boyfriend.[/ex] …
6find out — phr verb Find out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑detail, ↑fact, ↑identity, ↑motive, ↑reason, ↑secret, ↑truth, ↑worth …
7find out — verb To discover, as by asking or exploring. I dont know who was the twenty first president of the United States, but it should be very easy to …
8find — verb (past and past participle found) 1》 discover by chance or deliberately. ↘(find something out or find out about something) discover information or a fact. ↘succeed in obtaining: he s struggling to find the money for the trip.… …
9find — ► VERB (past and past part. found) 1) discover by chance or deliberately. 2) recognize or discover to be present or to be the case. 3) ascertain by research or calculation. 4) Law (of a court) officially declare to be the case. 5) (find against… …
10find — (v.) O.E. findan come upon, meet with, discover; obtain by search or study (class III strong verb; past tense fand, pp. funden), from P.Gmc. *finthanan (Cf. O.S. findan, O.Fris. finda, O.N. finna, M.Du. vinden, O.H.G. findan, Ger. finden, Goth.… …
