(v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
(v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
(v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
(v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
(v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
(v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
(v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
(v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
(v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
(v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
(n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
(2) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(3) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
(4) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(5) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(6) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(7) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(8) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(9) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(10) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(11) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(12) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(13) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(14) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
(15) The findings clearly reveal that only the Sertoli-Sertoli junctional site forms a restrictive barrier.
(16) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(17) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(18) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(19) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(20) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
Judge
Definition:
(v. i.) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
(v. i.) One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
(v. i.) A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.
(v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
(v. i.) The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
(a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
(a.) To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.
(v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
(v. t.) To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
(v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
(v. t.) To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
(v. t.) To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(3) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(4) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(5) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(6) Significant differences between laryngectomee and nonlaryngectomee judges were found when rating alaryngeal speakers, but not when rating normal, laryngeal speakers.
(7) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(8) Over the course of 26-40 h the Na- and water-loaded cells returned to a normal state of hydration as judged by their density.
(9) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
(10) The final preparation was homogeneous and a single polypeptide of 18,000 daltons as judged by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(11) But I don't wish to be too hard on the judge for not taking that view.
(12) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(13) I think you should judge the government on its results in education."
(14) This RNA comprises approximately 3% of the purified RNA, as judged by RNA-DNA hybridization.
(15) Its recommendations were judged "correct" by the evaluating pathologist in 15 cases.
(16) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
(17) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(18) The cytoplasmic and membrane spanning domains of galactosyltransferase were found to be sufficient to retain all of the hybrid invariant chain in trans Golgi cisternae as judged by indirect immunofluorescence, treatment with brefeldin A and immuno-electron microscopy.
(19) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(20) The morphometric data was not related to the age of the patient, disease duration, type of MND or muscle strength, thus suggesting that the progression and severity of MND and its prognosis cannot be judged on the basis of quadriceps muscle pathology alone.