Find one's feet

Definition

find / faÇnd / v ( pt, pp found / faƱnd / ) ၁။ ေတြ႕သည္။ Look what I've found. ❍ I found a £ 5 note on the pavement. ❍ He woke up and found himself in a hospital bed. ❍ I was disappointed to find you out (ie that you were out) when I called. ❍ We came home and found her asleep on the sofa. ၂။ ~ sth / sb (for sb) (က) ေတြ႕ရိွသည္။ ရွာရသည္။ After months of drilling, oil was found off the coast. ❍ try to find a cure for cancer ❍ It seems impossible to find a way to stop the vandals. ❍ I managed to find a solution to the problem. ❍ It's hard to find / I'm having trouble finding anything new to say on this subject. ❍ Can you find me a hotel/find a hotel for me? ❍ The report finds that 30% of the country's firms go bankrupt within a year. (ခ) ရွာေတြ႕သည္။ Did you find the pen you lost? ❍ The missing child has not been found yet. ❍ I'll find you your shoes / find your shoes for you. (ဂ) ရသည္။ ရိွသည္။ ။ I keep meaning to write, but never seem to find (the) time. ❍ It would be nice to get a car but where would we find the money? ၃။ သိရိွရသည္။ ႀကံဳရသည္။ ေတြ႕ရသည္။ I find (that) it pays to be honest. ❍ He finds his new job rather boring. ❍ You may find it hard to accept your illness. ❍ We found the beds very comfortable. ❍ He finds talking about his problems difficult. ❍ We found him (to be) extremely good company. ၄။ ေရာက္သည္။ Water will always find its own level. ေရသည္ ထိုက္သင့္သည့္ ျပင္ညီသို႔ ေရာက္သည္ အထိ စီးၿမဲစီးဝင္လိမ့္မည္။ The arrow found its mark. ျမားသည္ ပစ္မွတ္ကို ထိမွန္သည္။ The money was finding its way directly into the police chief's pocket. ရဲအရာရိွႀကီး၏ အိတ္ထဲသို႔ လာဘ္ေငြ တန္းတန္း မတ္မတ္ လိွမ့္ဝင္လ်က္ရိွသည္။ ၅။ ေတြ႕ရသည္။ You'll find (ie There is) a teapot in the cupboard. ❍ These flowers are found (ie exist, grow) only in Africa. ၆။ ( law ) ေတြ႕ရိွသည္။ ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ ေၾကညာသည္။ How do you find the accused? ❍ The jury found him guilty (of manslaughter). ❍ The court found in her favour. n (အဖိုးထိုက္အဖိုးတန္) ေတြ႕ရိွခ်က္။ (ရွာမွရွား) သူ။ an important archaeological find ❍ Our new babysitter is a real find. ❏ all found [ IDM ] ( Brit ) စားစရိတ္ ေနစရိတ္ၿငိမ္း လုပ္ခ။ ❏ be found wanting [ IDM ] အရည္အခ်င္း မျပည့္မီ အားထား၍မရ။ ❏ finder n ေတြ႕ရိွသူ။ ေကာက္ရသူ။ Lost: one diamond ring. Finder will be rewarded. ❏ find fault (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] အျပစ္ရွာသည္။ She's always finding fault (with me). ❏ find one's feet [ IDM ] ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္စြမ္းရိွသည္။ အသား က်သည္။ I only recently joined the firm so I'm still finding my feet. ❏ find for / against sb [ PHRV ] ( law ) (ဂ်ဴရီ လူႀကီးတို႔က) အႏိုင္အ႐ံႈး အဆံုးအျဖတ္ေပးသည္။ The jury found for the defendant. ❏ finding n (often pl ) ၁။ ေတြ႕ရိွခ်က္။ The findings of the Commission will be published today. ❍ The report's main finding is that pensions are inadequate. ၂။ ( law ) ေတြ႕ရိွခ်က္။ ဂ်ဴရီ လူႀကီးမ်ား၏ အဆံုးအျဖတ္။ ❏ (not) find it in one's heart / oneself to do sth [ IDM ] (usu with can/could ) မလုပ္ရက္မကိုင္ရက္။ I cannot find it in myself to condemn a mother who steals for a hungry child. ❍ Can you find it in your heart to apologize? မင္းမွာ မွားေၾကာင္း ဝန္ခံရဲတဲ့သတၱိ ရိွရဲ႕လား။ ❏ find sth out [ PHRV ] ေလ့လာေတြ႕ရိွသည္။ စံုစမ္းရရိွ သည္။ Can you find out what time the train leaves? ❍ Try to find out if anything's bothering her. ❍ We found out later that he'd been lying to us. ❏ find sb out [ PHRV ] အလိမ္ေပၚသည္။ ။ He had been cheating the taxman but it was years before he was found out. ❏ find one's voice / tongue [ IDM ] ႏႈတ္ဆိတ္ေနရာမွ အသံ ထြက္လာသည္။ She suddenly found her tongue again. ❏ find one's way (to…) [ IDM ] လမ္းသိသည္။ (ထြက္ေပါက္) ရွာေတြ႕သည္။ I hope you can find your way home. ❍ She couldn't find her way out of the building. ❏ take sb as one finds them [ IDM ] အျမင္အတိုင္း အရိွအတိုင္း လက္သင့္ခံသည္။ We've only just returned from holiday so you must take us as you find us.

Examples

1. Police have found a weapon.
2. Illegal drugs were found in the singer’s luggage.
3. Have you found your shoes?
4. Everyone dreams of finding a valuable old painting in the attic.
5. I found a ten pound note on the pavement!
6. We arrived to find the house in darkness.
7. [find someone doing something] : I found her wandering the streets in a complete daze.
8. We hope to find the answers to some of these questions.
9. No explanation for this phenomenon has yet been found.
10. [find (that)] : I put my hand into my pocket and found I’d left my keys at home.
11. Have you found accommodation yet?
12. [find work/employment/a job] : It is very difficult for young people in this area to find work.
13. He found happiness late in life with his second wife.
14. Doug finally found the courage to speak.
15. [find something difficult/frightening/relaxing etc] : William now finds walking very difficult.
16. [find someone attractive/irritating etc] : Men always found her extremely attractive.
17. [find (that)] : I find that children need a lot of encouragement.
18. [find (that)] : The court found that the company was in breach of its contract.
19. [find someone guilty/not guilty] : He was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison.
20. [find for someone/in someone’s favour] : The industrial tribunal found in our favour.
21. [find against someone] : The court found against the plaintiff.
22. We’ve got to find an extra £200 by Friday.
23. I never seem to find the time to read these days.