To locate
I found this shell on the beach.
To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
Water is found to be a compound substance.
To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
to find leisure; to find means
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
One of the most exciting finds made by Chinese archaeologists within the last twenty years are the sites located in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning Province, particularly the Neolithic Hung-shan culture (c. 3500-2500 B.C.E.).
From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”). See ...
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The act of finding.