Find vs. Fined — What's the Difference?

To come upon, often by accident; meet with

Of superior quality, skill, or appearance

To come upon or discover by searching or making an effort

Excellent in character or ability

To discover or ascertain through observation, experience, or study

Very small in size, weight, or thickness

To perceive to be, after experience or consideration

Free from impurities.

To experience or feel

(Metallurgy) Containing pure metal in a specified proportion or amount

To recover (something lost)

Very sharp; keen

To recover the use of; regain

Thin; slender

To succeed in reaching; arrive at

Carefully or delicately made or done

To obtain or acquire by effort

Consisting of very small particles; not coarse

To decide on and make a declaration about

Marginally different or subtle

To furnish; supply

Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety or precision; sensitive

To bring (oneself) to an awareness of what one truly wishes to be and do in life.

Trained to the highest degree of physical efficiency

To perceive (oneself) to be in a specific place or condition

Characterized by refinement or elegance

To come to a legal decision or verdict

Satisfactory; acceptable

The act of finding.

Being in a state of satisfactory health; quite well

Something that is found, especially an unexpectedly valuable discovery

Used as an intensive

To locate

Finely.

(transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.

(Informal) Very well

(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.

To make or become finer, purer, or cleaner.

(ditransitive) Locate on behalf of another

To require the payment of a fine from; impose a fine on.

(ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.

A sum of money required to be paid especially to the government as a penalty for an offense.

(transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.

(Obsolete) An end; a termination.

(transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

Simple past tense and past participle of fine

(transitive) To point out.

Subjected to punishment by a fine.

(ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.

Punished by the imposition of a penalty

(transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.

To supply; to furnish.

To provide for

To determine or judge.

To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.

To discover game.

Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.

The act of finding.

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.

To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.

To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.

To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.

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.

To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.

Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archæologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.

A productive insight

The act of discovering something

Come upon, as if by accident; meet with;

Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;

Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost;

After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study;

Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds;

Perceive or be contemporaneous with;

Get something or somebody for a specific purpose;

Make a discovery, make a new finding;

Make a discovery;

Obtain through effort or management;

Decide on and make a declaration about;

Receive a specified treatment (abstract);

Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place;

Get or find back; recover the use of;

Succeed in reaching; arrive at;

Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation;