Word Meanings - FINDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury. Burrill. After his friends finding and his rent. Chaucer. (more info) 1. That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp.

Additional info about word: FINDING

The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury. Burrill. After his friends finding and his rent. Chaucer. (more info) 1. That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. , that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. Milton. 2. Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FINDING)

• Verdict
• Finding
• judgment
• answer
• opinion
• decision
• sentence

Related words: (words related to FINDING)

• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• FINDER
  One who, or that which, finds; specifically , 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.
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• SENTENCER
  One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.
• OPINIONIST
  One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• DECISION
  1. Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. Bp. Pearson. 2. The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.
• FINDFAULT
  A censurer or caviler.
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• ANSWERABLE
  1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
• OPINIONABLE
  Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.
• OPINIONATED
  Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.
• SENTENCE
  In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term
• SENTENCE METHOD
  A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.
• OPINIONATIST
  An opinionist.
• FIND
  findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pat 1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new,
• ANSWERABLY
  In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
• ANSWERER
  One who answers.
• UNANSWERABLE
  Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
• SELF-OPINION
  Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.
• PREJUDGMENT
  The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
• REFIND
  To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• MISJUDGMENT
  A wrong or unjust judgment.