TO FIND OUT

Definition: TO FIND OUT

TO FIND OUT

1. To detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand. ``Canst thou by searching find out God?'' --Job. xi. 7. ``We do hope to find out all your tricks.'' --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO FIND OUT

What are we doing here? Who are we? If this is a chance to find out even just a little part of that answer I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are. (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

I have to find out what happened to my life. (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

Why do you have to lose something to find out what it really means? (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner)

The best way to find out where you are from is find out where you are going and work backwards. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out (On The Road To Find Out; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

To find out where the heartache began (An Innocent Man; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Everybody's moving on and try to find out (It Don't Matter To Me; performing artist: Bread)

You don't really need to find out what's going on (Dirty Laundry; performing artist: Don Henley)

You had to find out for yourself (Too Gone Too Long; performing artist: En Vogue)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Guerrilla Guide to Credit Repair: How to Find Out What's Wrong With Your Credit Rating-And How to Fix It (reference)

• Check It Out! : A Top Investigator Shows You How to Find Out Practicallly Anything About Anybody in Your Life (reference)

• After 33 Years and $30 Billion, Time to Find Out If Head Start Produces Results [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• What's on the Worker's Mind: By One Who Put on Overalls to Find Out (reference)

• Strange Scavenging Creatures/Pop-Up (Dare to Find Out About Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Faerie Tale Theatre - The Boy Who Left Home to Find out About the Shivers (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title page to: A physical dissertation, concerning the cause of the variation of the barometer ...., by Jacques de Roubaix. Printed in 1721. Check out note concerning "that it is impossible to find out the longitude"! Library Call Number QC891 .R85 1721. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

A gas chromatograph (GC) is used to identify individual scents emitted from potato foliage. Above, entomologist Joseph Dickens positions a Colorado potato beetle antenna in front of a GC outlet to find out which scents the insect detects. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Women, children & AIDS what's the connection? : you owe it to yourself to find out. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But though the golden age (before vain ambition, and amor sceleratus habendi, evil concupiscence, had corrupted men's minds into a mistake of true power and honour) had more virtue, and consequently better governors, as well as less vicious subjects, and there was then no stretching prerogative on the one side, to oppress the people; nor consequently on the other, any dispute about privilege, to lessen or restrain the power of the magistrate,* and so no contest betwixt rulers and people about governors or goveernment: yet, when ambition and luxury in future ages would retain and increase the power, without doing the business for which it was given; and aided by flattery, taught princes to have distinct and separate interests from their people, men found it necessary to examine more carefully the original and rights of government; and to find out ways to restrain the exorbitances, and prevent the abuses of that power, which they having intrusted in another's hands only for their own good, they found was made use of to hurt them. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Her first attempts at usefulness were in an endeavour to find out who were the parents, but Harriet could not tell.

Pure craving to see, to know, and to find out.

A full hour had passed since his father had gone in with Dan Crosby, the tutor, to find out for him something about the university.

His fingers felt that something was wrong, but did not care enough to find out.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Testing is the only way to find out how much protein you have in your urine. (references)

If platelet counts are low, more tests may be necessary to find out the reason. (references)

Read this guide and talk to your doctor to find out how to get your asthma under control. (references)

Business

It is advisable to find out as much as possible about the potential partner. (references)

Because the list of products which require the safety B certificate is periodically revised, foreign companies should check with the PCBC office to find out if a specific product requires safety B certification. (references)

Economic History

Latvia

However, it is highly advisable to find out as much as possible about potential partners. (references)

South Africa

When appointing a South African distributor, U.S. exporters should take care to find out if the distributor handles a competing product. (references)

Taiwan

That is to find out what consumers want (or create a product they will want when they see it), to determine what they are willing to pay for it, and to research the most efficient means of getting it to them. (references)

Trade

Israel

U.S. exporters should also double-check with their freight forwarder, shipping company or importer to find out if any other documentation, including bill of lading and packing list, is required. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "TO FIND OUT": try to find out. Additional references.

Chinese 

查出 (to discover). (various references)

German

ausfindig machen (discover, find, glean, hunt off, hunt up, locate, scent out, search out, seek out, trace, track down, unearth). (various references)

Greek 

προσπαθώ να μάθω τι πρόκειται (try to find out what is happe). (various references)

Hungarian

rajtakap (catch, catch out, find out, nab, to catch out, to catch red-handed, to cop, to nab, to trip up), megtudakol, megtud (ascertain, come to know, gather, hear, learn, to ascertain, to come to know), megérdeklődik, kiderít (ascertain, bring to light, detect, to ascertain, to clear up, to elicit, to nose out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

聞込む (to get information, to get wind of), 聞き込む (to get information, to get wind of), 見附る (to be familiar, to detect, to discover, to find fault, to locate), 見出す (to discover), 見出� す (to discover, to notice, to select), 見つける (to be familiar, to detect, to discover, to find fault, to locate), 見つけ� す (to discover, to locate), 見付け出す (to discover, to locate), 見付ける (to be familiar, to detect, to discover, to find fault, to locate), 見い出す (to discover), 突き止める (to ascertain, to locate, to make sure), 探し出す , 探り�"てる , 捜し�"てる (to detect, to discover). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きき�"む (to get information, to get wind of, to have heard), さがしあてる (to detect, to discover), さがし� す (to discover, to locate), さぐりあてる, つきとめる (to ascertain, to locate, to make sure), みつける (to be familiar, to detect, to discover, to find fault, to locate), みつけ� す (to discover, to locate), みい� す (to discover, to notice, to select), み� す (to disarrange, to discover, to disturb, to throw out of order). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay indfay outay

Spanish

informarme, enterarse (find out, get to know, pick up, recoup one's losses, wise up). (various references)

controver. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: outfind.

-3 letters: outfit.

-4 letters: ditto, donut, fondu, found, fount, fundi, futon, ootid, outdo, tondi, tondo, unfit.

-5 letters: dint, doit, duit, dunt, fido, find, fino, foin, fond, font, food, foot, fund, info, into, nodi, onto, otto, tint, toft, tofu, toit, toon, toot, tout, tuft, undo, unit, unto.

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