find out

Verb
  1. Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study (synset 200920843)
    "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
    subtypes:
    • gauge - determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
    • translate - determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
    • rectify - math: determine the length of
    • redetermine - fix, find, or establish again
    • sequence - determine the order of constituents in
    • refract - determine the refracting power of (a lens)
    • count, enumerate, number, numerate - determine the number or amount of
    • admeasure - determine the quantity of someone's share
    • locate, situate - determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey
    same as: ascertain, determine, find
    verb group:
  2. Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally (synset 200600349)
    "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
    subtypes:
    same as: discover, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see
    verb group: find, see, witness - perceive or be contemporaneous with
  3. Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort (synset 200922307)
    "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
    subtypes: test - determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
    same as: ascertain, check, determine, learn, see, watch
    verb group:
  4. Trap;
    Especially in an error or in a reprehensible act (synset 200733559)
    "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"
    is a type of: detect, discover, find, notice, observe - discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
    same as: catch out

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