Dictionary Definition
finding
Noun
1 the act of determining the properties of
something [syn: determination]
2 the decision of a court on issues of fact or
law
3 something that is found; "the findings in the
gastrointestinal tract indicate that he died several hours after
dinner"; "an area rich in archaelogical findings"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- Results of research or an investigation
- Legal verdict
Derived terms
Verb
finding- present participle of find
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accomplishment, accouterment, action, answer, armament, ascertainment, award, bonus, bringing to light, buried
treasure, casual discovery, catching, catering, chance discovery,
chandlery, clearing
up, conclusion,
condemnation,
consideration,
cracking, decipherment, decision, declaration, decoding, decree, deliverance, denouement, detection, determination, determining, diagnosis, dictum, disclosure, discovery, disentanglement,
distinguishment,
doom, end, end result, endowment, equipment, espial, excavation, exhumation, explanation, exposure, find, finding out, finding-out,
fitting out, foundling, furnishing, furnishment, gravy, interpretation, invention, investment, issue, judgement, locating, location, logistics, lucky strike,
order, outcome, outfitting, precedent, preparation, procurement, prognosis, pronouncement, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reason, recognition, rediscovery, reinforcement, replenishment, resolution, resolving, result, resupply, retailing, revelation, riddling, ruling, selling, sentence, serendipity, solution, solving, sorting out, spotting, strike, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, treasure trove,
trouvaille, trove, uncovering, unearthing, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, verdict, victualing, waifs, waifs and strays, windfall, windfall money,
windfall profit, working, working-out