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Nevertheless, I can't help but feel uneasy about replacing a word of the original text of the Bible, a word which every source I can find translates as "young girl," with so pejorative a word as "bimbo."

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  1. transitive verb To come upon, often by accident; meet with.
  2. transitive verb To come upon or discover by searching or making an effort: found the leak in the pipe.
  3. transitive verb To discover or ascertain through observation, experience, or study: found a solution; find the product of two numbers; found that it didn't really matter.

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  • If we trace hleow back a bit further, we find the Latin word calor , meaning "heat." —  The Word Detective
  • He snatched it off and held it over his heart Two days later, my find was a hot topic on the Internet loop and everyone who came in wanted to touch my hand so my luck would rub off on them. —  EQMM,May2007
  • However, a leading palaeontologist, Dr Paul Barrett, of London's Natural History Museum, told BBC News that the claim this find is the "world's largest" is likely to be credible. —  بالاترین
  • This find is also important because it is based on a prediction made by evolutionary theory. —  Museum Blogs
  • But the find is also highly unusual as the artifacts appear to have been removed from a grave during ancient times and, for reasons that are unclear, reburied in the city's marketplace near the theater where Philip was stabbed to death. —  clusterflock
 

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take ·  know ·  give ·  make ·  go ·  read ·  try ·  have ·  keep ·  discovery ·  say ·  move

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find:   finding ·  found ·  finds
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  1. Middle English finden, from Old English findan; see pent- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English finden (preterit fand, fond, plural founde, founden, past participle founde, founden), from Anglo-Saxon findan (preterit fand, plural funden, past participle funden) = Old Saxon findan, fīdhan = OFries. finda = Dutch vinden = Middle Low German vinden, Low German finnen = Old High German findan, Middle High German G. finden = Icelandic finna = Swedish finna = Danish finde = Goth finthan, find. Connection with L. petere, seek after, go to, fall upon, is doubtful: see compete, petition. Remotely connected with feeze and fuss, q. v.
  2. from find, v.
 

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