Index of English words, starting with "fi"

(1) - Finch (n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.

(1) - Find (n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
(2) - Find (v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
(3) - Find (v. t.) 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.
(4) - Find (v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
(5) - Find (v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
(6) - Find (v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
(7) - Find (v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
(8) - Find (v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
(9) - Find (v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
(10) - Find (v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
(11) - Find (v. t.) 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.

(1) - Findable (a.) Capable of beong found; discoverable.

(1) - Finder (n.) One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.

(1) - Finding (n.) The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.
(2) - Finding (n.) Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.
(3) - Finding (n.) That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.
(4) - Finding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Find