VERB | communication | find out, determine, find, ascertain | establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment / experiment, survey, or study |
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cognition | find out, learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, get a line, discover, see | get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | |
communication | find out, determine, check, see, ascertain, watch, learn | find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | |
cognition | find out, catch out | trap |
Meaning | Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment / experiment, survey, or study. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE | |
Synonyms | determine, find, ascertain | |
Narrower | admeasure | Determine the quantity of someone's share |
count, number, enumerate, numerate | Determine the number or amount of | |
gauge | Determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation | |
rectify | (math) determine the length of | |
redetermine | Fix, find, or establish again | |
refract | Determine the refracting power of (a lens) | |
sequence | Determine the order of constituents in | |
situate, locate | Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | |
translate | Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA | |
Similar to | determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn | Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort |
discover, find | make a discovery, make a new finding | |
Spanish | decidir, descubrir, determinar, encontrar | |
Catalan | decidir, descobrir, determinar, trobar |
Meaning | Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Model | They find out that there was a traffic accident | |
Synonyms | learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, get a line, discover, see | |
Narrower | ascertain | Learn or discover with certainty |
discover, find | make a discovery | |
get the goods | Discover some bad or hidden / hidden information about | |
trip up, catch | detect a blunder or misstep | |
wise up | get wise to | |
See also | find | make a discovery |
Similar to | witness, find, see | perceive or be contemporaneous with |
Spanish | aprender, averiguar, descubrir, enterarse, enterar, oír, ver | |
Catalan | aprendre, assabentar-se, assabentar, descobrir, veure |
Meaning | Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE | |
Model | They find out whether there was a traffic accident | |
Example | "find out if he speaks Russian" | |
Synonyms | determine, check, see, ascertain, watch, learn | |
Narrower | test | Determine the presence or properties of (a substance) |
Similar to | determine, find, find out, ascertain | Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment / experiment, survey, or study |
see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure | Be careful or certain to do something | |
Spanish | aprender, averiguar, decidir, determinar, establecer, mirar, ver | |
Catalan | aprendre, decidir, determinar, esbrinar, mirar, trobar, veure |
Meaning | trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonym | catch out | |
Broader | detect, observe, find, discover, notice | Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of |
Spanish | descubrir | |
Catalan | descobrir |
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