Synonyms for find out
find out

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1. find out

   Of human actions or character, detect is used, almost without exception, in a bad sense; discover may be used in either the good or the bad sense, oftener in the good; he was detected in a fraud; real merit is sure to be discovered. In scientific language, detect is used of delicate indications that appear in course of careful watching; as, a slight fluttering of the pulse could be detected. We discover what has existed but has not been known to us; we invent combinations or arrangements not before in use; Columbus discovered America; Morse invented the electric telegraph. Find is the most general word for every means of coming to know what was not before certainly known. A man finds in the road some stranger's purse, or finds his own which he is searching for. The expert discovers or detects an error in an account; the auditor finds the account to be correct. Compare DISCERN.

   See synonyms for HIDE.

   Synonyms:
   ascertain, descry, detect, discern, disclose, discover, expose, ferret out, find, invent

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1. determine, find, find out, ascertainverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   influence, detect, recover, settle, ensure, square up, find oneself, hear, shape, get, get hold, fix, find, retrieve, get word, square off, rule, notice, regulate, determine, see, get wind, come up, define, specify, line up, assure, control, encounter, happen, watch, receive, feel, incur, mold, observe, get a line, see to it, make up one's mind, witness, decide, catch out, pick up, ascertain, obtain, bump, limit, set, learn, regain, chance, discover, insure, check

2. learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, seeverb

   get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

   "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"

   Synonyms:
   turn around, ensure, read, pick up, collar, unwrap, key out, reveal, look, experience, get word, visualise, come upon, watch, assure, memorise, fancy, intoxicate, go steady, distinguish, disclose, learn, chance upon, receive, instruct, run into, discover, light upon, escort, try, perk, fall upon, lift up, con, uplift, reckon, give away, take heed, consider, gain vigor, study, name, come across, get a line, elate, collect, chance on, bring out, divulge, take care, let on, control, ascertain, insure, attend, date, realize, check, peck, interpret, meet, image, larn, gather up, strike, take, catch, see to it, cop, see, listen, construe, regard, visualize, describe, picture, find, catch out, call for, perk up, visit, identify, view, project, percolate, arrest, let out, hear, realise, go out, envision, happen upon, determine, take in, nab, get wind, nail, encounter, figure, acquire, examine, expose, break, witness, understand, detect, teach, key, run across, attain, memorize, go through, notice, observe, apprehend

3. determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learnverb

   find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

   "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"

   Synonyms:
   encounter, ensure, take, read, hold in, jibe, look out, look, experience, tick off, visualise, square up, watch, gibe, assure, image, hold, run across, moderate, look on, learn, checker, condition, check out, run into, discover, regulate, escort, keep an eye on, stop, examine, pick up, memorize, visit, hear, chequer, observe, fix, mold, consider, study, con, tally, come across, regard, define, get a line, suss out, instruct, get wind, check off, check over, take care, watch out, match, check up on, control, look into, ascertain, mark, insure, attend, date, realize, go over, train, check, hold back, specify, interpret, meet, go out, witness, memorise, set, fancy, catch, decide, construe, see, discipline, square off, limit, visualize, picture, find, catch out, go through, take in, correspond, curb, view, influence, project, watch over, fit, arrest, check into, follow, contain, get word, envision, determine, larn, make up one's mind, retard, crack, turn back, go steady, figure, acquire, see to it, break, understand, delay, teach, reckon, shape, settle, tick, realise, agree, mark off

4. find out, catch outverb

   trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act

   "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"

   Synonyms:
   see, ascertain, get wind, find, discover, get a line, check, hear, catch out, watch, pick up, learn, get word, determine

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1. • Detect

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1. find out

   Synonyms:
   discover, detect, bring to light

2. find out

   Synonyms:
   ascertain, decipher, solve, unriddle, make out, get at

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1. find out

   Synonyms:
   discover, detect, ascertain, solve, unriddle

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1. Harold Howe II:

   Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can't think of anything else to do they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don't want them to they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live.

2. Terry Bradshaw:

   You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give em? Humor. And if you show them the other side, they don’t like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot ‘s mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

3. Fer:

   why can´t you realize the 1000 times I walk beside you the 2000 times I blushed when you are near the 3000 times I stared at you and blushed when you find out the 4000 times I tried to talk to you but I didn´t have an excuse the 5000 times that I dream of your smileand the million times I´ve found out that no matter how many times I walk beside you, blushed when you are near, stare at you, try to talk to you, dream of your smile you´ll never fall in love with me...

4. Jessica Cisneros:

   It took me having to be in Congressman Cuellar's office to find out he was anti-labor, to find out he was anti-choice, to find out he had lobbyist after lobbyist go through his office and never host families that looked like me in Washington D.C. I even found out he was anti-immigrant.

5. Max Callaghan:

   What we find here is that the evidence is distributed unequally across countries, and this is really important because often when we try to make a map or to find out where the impacts of Nature Climate Change are happening, we find often few scientific papers in less developed countries or low-income countries.