--- title: F — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 17 description: The 906 words of the English dictionary under F, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / F # F — The English dictionary · page 17 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* A filly is a young female horse, usually under four years old.[↗](../../filly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") Its brother is a colt.[↗](../../filly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmer's filly ran across the field.[↗](../../filly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The king's son rode a blue-grey filly.[↗](../../filly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The filly tossed her head in the stable.[↗](../../filly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Every filly in the field came to the gate.[↗](../../filly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **film** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A film is a movie, a story shown with moving pictures.[↗](../../film/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To film is to record moving pictures with a camera.[↗](../../film/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Film is a thin layer, like plastic film or a film of oil.[↗](../../film/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Film is also the roll that old cameras used for photos.[↗](../../film/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The film lasts 2 hours.[↗](../../film/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · They watched 3 films.[↗](../../film/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Tickets for the film cost $7.[↗](../../film/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The film starts at 4 and ends at 6.[↗](../../film/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We filmed our class play.[↗](../../film/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Cover the bowl with plastic film.[↗](../../film/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · There was a film of ice on the pond.[↗](../../film/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · This film is for children over 12.[↗](../../film/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Little by little a film covered his eyes.[↗](../../film/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **filmmaker** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A filmmaker is a person who makes films, especially a director or producer who has the main ideas.[↗](../../filmmaker/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Steven Spielberg is a famous filmmaker.[↗](../../filmmaker/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class became filmmakers for a day.[↗](../../filmmaker/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The filmmaker filmed whales in the ocean.[↗](../../filmmaker/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She wants to be a wildlife filmmaker.[↗](../../filmmaker/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The filmmaker edited the video on a laptop.[↗](../../filmmaker/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Young filmmakers entered the school film festival.[↗](../../filmmaker/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **filmy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Filmy means thin, light and see-through, like a very fine cloth or film.[↗](../../filmy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Filmy eyes are dim or clouded over with a thin skin, as in old age.[↗](../../filmy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The curtain was filmy and let the sun through.[↗](../../filmy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A filmy veil covered her face.[↗](../../filmy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The old dog's eyes had gone filmy with age.[↗](../../filmy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She wiped the filmy mist from the window.[↗](../../filmy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **fils** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (French) «Fils» is the French word for son; it sounds like «feess» to an English ear and is not an English word.[↗](../../fils/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In English, «fils» is sometimes put after a French name to mean «the son» or «junior», as in «Dumas fils», to tell a son apart from his father with the same name.[↗](../../fils/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (money) A fils is a small coin, a fraction of the dinar or dirham, in some Arab countries like Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE.[↗](../../fils/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* In French class we learned that «fils» means son.[↗](../../fils/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The bakery sign said «Martin et Fils».[↗](../../fils/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Alexandre Dumas fils wrote different books from his father.[↗](../../fils/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The drink cost 500 fils in Kuwait.[↗](../../fils/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · «Mon fils» means «my son» in French.[↗](../../fils/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The old coin was worth only a few fils.[↗](../../fils/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **filter** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A filter is a material or device with tiny holes that lets liquid or air pass but catches solid bits.[↗](../../filter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To filter is to pass something through a filter to clean or separate it.[↗](../../filter/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A filter is a setting that changes or blocks something, like a photo filter or an internet filter.[↗](../../filter/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To filter in or out is to move slowly in small amounts, like light or people.[↗](../../filter/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We filtered the muddy water through filter paper.[↗](../../filter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The sand stayed in the filter.[↗](../../filter/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Salt passes through a filter because it is dissolved.[↗](../../filter/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our fish tank has a filter to keep it clean.[↗](../../filter/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Sunlight filtered through the leaves.[↗](../../filter/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The school internet has a filter.[↗](../../filter/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She added a funny filter to the photo.[↗](../../filter/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **filth** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Filth is very bad, disgusting dirt.[↗](../../filth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Filth is rude, offensive words, pictures or talk.[↗](../../filth/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (UK slang, rude, offensive) «The filth» is a rude word for the police; it is insulting.[↗](../../filth/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The pigsty was full of filth.[↗](../../filth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Victorian streets were covered in filth and smoke.[↗](../../filth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash the filth off your boots.[↗](../../filth/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Germs grow in filth, so we keep the kitchen clean.[↗](../../filth/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad called the rude song «filth» and turned it off.[↗](../../filth/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (UK slang, rude) In the TV drama the robber shouted, «Run, it's the filth!»[↗](../../filth/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth.[↗](../../filth/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets HOS.5.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filth/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It hath wearied itself with toil; yet its great filth goeth not forth out of it, yea, its noisome filth.[↗](../../filth/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.24.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filth/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of destruction.[↗](../../filth/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.4.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filth/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **filthiness** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The state of being very dirty, or morally foul.[↗](../../filthiness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.[↗](../../filthiness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.30.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filthiness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.[↗](../../filthiness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.22.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filthiness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · and said unto them: 'Hear me, ye Levites: now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.[↗](../../filthiness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.29.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filthiness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **filthy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very dirty: filthy boots.[↗](../../filthy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Rude, nasty or about rude things: a filthy joke; a filthy mood.[↗](../../filthy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) Very unpleasant: filthy weather.[↗](../../filthy/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* «filthy rich» (informal) = extremely rich.[↗](../../filthy/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (slang) «a filthy look» = an angry look.[↗](../../filthy/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Take off those filthy shoes before you come in\![↗](../../filthy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog was filthy after rolling in mud.[↗](../../filthy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · It's filthy weather out there — rain and wind.[↗](../../filthy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He gave me a filthy look when I laughed.[↗](../../filthy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · They are filthy rich and have three houses.[↗](../../filthy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't tell filthy jokes at school.[↗](../../filthy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city\![↗](../../filthy/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ZEP.3.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filthy/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.[↗](../../filthy/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ZEC.3.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filthy/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is clean.[↗](../../filthy/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.28.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filthy/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **filtration** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Filtration is the process of separating solid bits from a liquid or gas by passing it through a filter, such as paper, sand or cloth.[↗](../../filtration/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Filtration is also the cleaning of water or air by filters.[↗](../../filtration/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We used filtration to separate the sand from the water.[↗](../../filtration/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Filtration cannot remove salt that has dissolved.[↗](../../filtration/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The water goes through sand for filtration.[↗](../../filtration/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The fish tank has a filtration system to keep the water clean.[↗](../../filtration/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Coffee is made by filtration through a paper filter.[↗](../../filtration/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our kidneys do a kind of filtration of the blood.[↗](../../filtration/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · After filtration, the clear liquid is called the filtrate.[↗](../../filtration/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **fin** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A thin, flat part sticking out of a fish's or sea animal's body that helps it swim, steer and balance.[↗](../../fin/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A similar flat part on a plane, rocket, car or surfboard that helps keep it steady.[↗](../../fin/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Flippers worn on your feet for swimming (often called fins).[↗](../../fin/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The fish moved its fins to swim forward.[↗](../../fin/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A shark's dorsal fin stuck out of the water.[↗](../../fin/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Dolphins have fins, but they breathe air.[↗](../../fin/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We wore fins to swim faster when snorkelling.[↗](../../fin/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Rockets have fins to keep them flying straight.[↗](../../fin/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The surfboard has three fins underneath.[↗](../../fin/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The fish used its tail fin to turn quickly.[↗](../../fin/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.[↗](../../fin/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.11.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fin/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.[↗](../../fin/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.14.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fin/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat; (Torah DEU.14.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fin/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.[↗](../../fin/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.10.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fin/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.[↗](../../fin/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.36.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fin/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of them that have been fined.[↗](../../fin/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets AMO.2.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fin/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **final** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Final means last, coming at the end.[↗](../../final/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The final is the last game or race that decides the winner.[↗](../../final/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Finals are the last exams of a school year or course.[↗](../../final/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Final can mean that cannot be changed: my answer is final.[↗](../../final/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* What is the final score?[↗](../../final/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The final price was $45.[↗](../../final/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · They won the final 3 to 1.[↗](../../final/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her final answer was 12.[↗](../../final/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our team got to the final.[↗](../../final/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · This is the final chapter of the book.[↗](../../final/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The final bell rang at 3.[↗](../../final/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The judge's decision is final.[↗](../../final/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · He closed his eyes and waited for the final moment.[↗](../../final/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Here follow the permutations of the name I H V, which is the Tetragrammaton — Jehovah, without the second or final Heh : IHV is a Tri-grammaton, and is more suitable to the third or Yetziratic plane.[↗](../../final/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../final/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · As is well-known, some old grammarians, among whom was the author of the "Dikduke ha-Teamim"" counted the final letters as separate letters, thus making the total number oi the letters of the alphabet twenty-seven.[↗](../../final/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../final/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **finale** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The finale is the last part of a show, concert, piece of music or event, usually the most exciting part.[↗](../../finale/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A season finale is the last episode of a TV series' season.[↗](../../finale/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The fireworks were the grand finale of the night.[↗](../../finale/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Everyone came on stage for the finale.[↗](../../finale/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The season finale ended with a cliffhanger.[↗](../../finale/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The orchestra played the finale loudly.[↗](../../finale/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · As a finale, the magician made the rabbit vanish.[↗](../../finale/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The finale of our school play had a big song.[↗](../../finale/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **finally** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Finally means at last, after a long time or a lot of waiting.[↗](../../finally/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Finally is used to introduce the last point or step in a list or set of instructions.[↗](../../finally/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We finally reached the top of the mountain.[↗](../../finally/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Finally, put the cake in the oven.[↗](../../finally/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · After three tries, I finally got it right.[↗](../../finally/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The bus finally arrived.[↗](../../finally/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Finally, I would like to thank my teacher.[↗](../../finally/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The rain finally stopped.[↗](../../finally/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Finally, check your answer by adding.[↗](../../finally/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Finally she picked up her basket.[↗](../../finally/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.[↗](../../finally/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../finally/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **finance** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (money) The management of money, especially by governments, banks and businesses.[↗](../../finance/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Money that is used to pay for a project or a purchase.[↗](../../finance/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To provide the money for something.[↗](../../finance/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My aunt works in finance at a big bank.[↗](../../finance/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The school needs finance to build a new playground.[↗](../../finance/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The bake sale helped finance our class trip.[↗](../../finance/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · They bought the car on finance and pay each month.[↗](../../finance/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The government's minister of finance plans the budget.[↗](../../finance/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Learning about personal finance helps you save money.[↗](../../finance/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **finances** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (money) The money that a person, family, business or country has and how it is managed.[↗](../../finances/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Third person form of the verb finance: pays for something.[↗](../../finances/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mum and Dad talk about the family finances every Sunday.[↗](../../finances/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The club's finances are healthy, so we can buy new kits.[↗](../../finances/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · After he lost his job, their finances were tight.[↗](../../finances/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad helps me keep my finances in order with a piggy bank.[↗](../../finances/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The council finances the local library.[↗](../../finances/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Good finances mean spending less than you earn.[↗](../../finances/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **financial** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Financial means about money, especially how it is earned, spent, saved or managed.[↗](../../financial/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Connected with banks, businesses and large sums of money.[↗](../../financial/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The family had financial problems after the factory closed.[↗](../../financial/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A financial adviser helps people save.[↗](../../financial/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The charity gives financial help to people in need.[↗](../../financial/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Banks are financial institutions.[↗](../../financial/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We learned about financial planning in class.[↗](../../financial/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The council publishes its spending at the end of each financial year.[↗](../../financial/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **financially** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Financially means in a way that is about money: «financially secure» means safe with money.[↗](../../financially/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Used to talk about the money side of a situation.[↗](../../financially/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* After getting a job, he became financially independent.[↗](../../financially/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The family was struggling financially.[↗](../../financially/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Financially, it's cheaper to take the bus.[↗](../../financially/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The club is doing well financially.[↗](../../financially/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa helped them financially when they moved.[↗](../../financially/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The plan works financially but takes too long.[↗](../../financially/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **finch** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A finch is a small songbird with a short, strong, cone-shaped beak for cracking seeds, such as a goldfinch, chaffinch or greenfinch.[↗](../../finch/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A goldfinch came to our bird feeder.[↗](../../finch/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Finches crack seeds with their strong beaks.[↗](../../finch/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Darwin studied the finches of the Galápagos Islands.[↗](../../finch/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The chaffinch is one of the commonest birds in Britain.[↗](../../finch/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Each kind of finch had a beak shaped for its food.[↗](../../finch/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A group of goldfinches is called a charm.[↗](../../finch/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · But the field and wood sparrows, the larks and finches, blackbirds and green finches had picked up the millet long ago, and the girl could not find her way.[↗](../../finch/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **find** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To find is to see or get something you were looking for, or by chance: find a coin.[↗](../../find/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To find out is to learn something: find out the answer.[↗](../../find/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To find is to work out in maths: find the total.[↗](../../find/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To find something easy or hard is to feel it is so.[↗](../../find/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* A find is something good that was found.[↗](../../find/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* In law, a court finds someone guilty or not guilty: it decides.[↗](../../find/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 7:* (casual) «Good find!» praises a good discovery; «finders keepers» is a children's saying that whoever finds a thing keeps it.[↗](../../find/#m7 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 8:* (formal) The exam voice says «determine», «ascertain», «compute», «evaluate», «establish», «locate» where a child would say «find».[↗](../../find/#m8 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Anna found 8 cards and then found 6 more.[↗](../../find/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") How many cards did Anna find altogether?[↗](../../find/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ben finds 3 shells on the beach.[↗](../../find/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Find how many more apples Sam has than Kim.[↗](../../find/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I can't find my other shoe\![↗](../../find/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Find the missing number: 5 + ?[↗](../../find/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") = 12.[↗](../../find/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Let's find out how plants drink water.[↗](../../find/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I find maths fun.[↗](../../find/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · If you find a needle, don't touch it; tell a grown-up.[↗](../../find/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · found 2 quid in me coat lol, now got 7[↗](../../find/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Finders keepers, it's mine now\![↗](../../find/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · That old shop was a great find.[↗](../../find/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Ascertain the total number of cards located by Anna, given that she located 8 and subsequently a further 6.[↗](../../find/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.[↗](../../find/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.6.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../find/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.[↗](../../find/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.31.34, JPS 1917)[↗](../../find/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him.[↗](../../find/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.39.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../find/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") · But wisdom, where shall it be found?[↗](../../find/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.28.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../find/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") · Canst thou find out the deep things of God?[↗](../../find/#x17 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.11.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../find/#x17 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil?[↗](../../find/#x18 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.5.30, JPS 1917)[↗](../../find/#x18 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) … [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/16/) **17** [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/18/) … [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/49/) - ← previous: [page 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/16/) - next →: [page 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/18/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)