Difference between Find and Encounter

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: NOUN

A discovery of something valuable; the thing found: as, a find in the gold-fields; finds of prehistoric tools. The use of find as a noun has become common only since its application in recent times to discoveries of archæological remains.
Something that is found, especially an unexpectedly valuable discovery.
The act of finding.
A productive insight
The act of discovering something

A casual meeting with a person or thing
A match between two opposing sides.
A sudden, often violent clash, as between combatants.
A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish.
An unplanned or unexpected meeting.
A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle.
A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
Synonyms Encounter, Rencounter, Skirmish, Brush, colision, affair. As conflicts in war these are shorter, with fewer engaged, and of less importance, than those compared under battle. An encounter is often an accidental meeting, resulting in some conflict, but not suffered to grow into a general engagement. Rencounter is the same thing, expressed by a term less common. A skirmish is an irregular or desultory contest between parts of armies, as scouting parties or skirmish-lines, not generally resulting in battle. A brush is short and sharp, perhaps engaging the whole of some force for a time, but not being pushed into a long or hard-fought struggle. See strife.
Manner of encountering; mode of accost or address; behavior in intercourse.
A meeting in opposition or conflict of any kind; a conflict; a battle; specifically, a contest between individuals or a small number of men, or an accidental meeting and fighting of detachments.
Specifically In physics, the coming within the sphere of one another's action of the rapidly moving molecules of a gaseous body.
A meeting, particularly a sudden or accidental meeting, of two or more persons or bodies of any kind; a coming together or in contact.
A hostile or adversarial confrontation.
A meeting, especially one that is unplanned, unexpected, or brief.
A minor short-term fight
A casual or unexpected convergence
A hostile disagreement face-to-face
A casual meeting with a person of thing

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: VERB

Get something or somebody for a specific purpose
Receive a specified treatment (abstract)
Get or find back; recover the use of
Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Make a discovery, make a new finding
Decide on and make a declaration about
After a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
Make a discovery
Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
Perceive or be contemporaneous with
Succeed in reaching; arrive at
Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with
Obtain through effort or management
Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
To confront (someone or something), notably face to face.
To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly.
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with
Come together
Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
Experience as a reaction
Be beset by

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court.
To come to a legal decision or verdict.
To perceive (oneself) to be in a specific place or condition.
To bring (oneself) to an awareness of what one truly wishes to be and do in life.
To furnish; supply.
To obtain or acquire by effort.
To succeed in reaching; arrive at.
To recover the use of; regain.
To recover (something lost).
To experience or feel.
To perceive to be, after experience or consideration.
To discover or ascertain through observation, experience, or study.
To come upon or discover by searching or making an effort.
To come upon, often by accident; meet with.

To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight.
To meet, especially unexpectedly.
To experience or undergo.
To confront in battle or competition.
To meet, especially unexpectedly; come upon.

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: TRANSITIVE VERB

To be; to fare; -- often used in speaking of health
To blame; to censure.
To detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand.
To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish
To provide for; to supply; to furnish
To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
To discover by sounding.
To come upon by seeking.
To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: OTHER WORD TYPES

Arrive at
Succeed in reaching
Recover the use of
Get or find back
Come upon after searching
Meet with
Come upon, as if by accident
In law, to determine an issue after judicial inquiry; direct judgment on the merits or facts of a case: as, the jury finds for the plaintiff.
See def. 10.
To reach home to; take the fancy of; appeal to the taste or liking of.
To compose; set in order; arrange.
To support; maintain; provide for: followed by the direct object of the person (often reflexive), with in, formerly also with, before the thing provided: as, to receive ten dollars a week and find one's self.
To supply; provide; furnish: as, to find money or provisions for an expedition.
In law, to determine after judicial inquiry: as, the jury found him guilty; to find a verdict for the plaintiff.
To detect; catch: commonly with out. See to find out, below.
To come to or into by natural causes or by force of circumstances; arrive at; reach: as, water finds its level; the picture found its way to the auction-room.
To succeed in attaining; gain by effort: as, to find leisure for a visit; to find safety in flight.
To discover or ascertain by experience; learn from observation or sensation: as, the climate was found to be unpropitious; to find a friend in a supposed enemy.
To discover the use of, or the way to make or use; invent; devise.
To discover by methodical means; ascertain or make out by systematic exploration, trial, or study: as, to find bottom by sounding; to find a bullet in a wound by probing; an effort to find the philosopher's stone; to find one's way in the dark; to find the answer to a problem.
To discover by sight or feeling; come or light upon, either by seeking or unexpectedly; encounter or meet with for the first time.
To discover scent or game: said of dogs in the field.

Meet with
Come upon, as if by accident
To meet in opposition or conflict; come together in combat; contend; fight.
To meet; come together; come into contact or collision.
Synonyms To confront, struggle with, contend against.
To befall; betide.
To oppose; oppugn.
To meet antagonistically; engage in conflict of any kind with; contend with; make an attack upon.
To come upon or against; meet with; especially, to meet casually, unexpectedly, reluctantly, or the like.

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: RELATED WORDS

Observe, Happen, Regain, Receive, Recover, Detect, Uncovering, Feel, Retrieve, Ascertain, Determine, Obtain, Get, See, Discover

Hit, Receive, Brush, Bump, Chance, See, Happen, Find, Play, Meet, Meeting, Skirmish, Showdown, Confrontation, Clash

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: DESCRIBE WORDS

Discovery, Observe, Happen, Receive, Recover, Detect, Uncovering, Feel, Retrieve, Ascertain, Determine, Obtain, Get, See, Discover

Take on, Hit, Receive, Brush, Bump, Chance, See, Happen, Find, Play, Meet, Meeting, Skirmish, Showdown, Confrontation

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

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Through our various portals, students can find comprehensive information about international education, allowing them to find the education opportunities that are best for them.
By doing this, the casting director will find a way to get you that part or find another part for you.
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With this mobile app, you can find a doctor and find a location.
TV: to find the eyeballs wherever you can find them.

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XE Separate Encounter, A Service That Is Distinct Because It Occurred During A Separate Encounter.
Encounter Data Molina Healthcare shall collect, and submit to the Agency s fiscal agent, enrollee service level encounter data for all covered services.
This case is not about a street encounter, or an encounter in a public place, but rather a private bedroom.
Northeasterly seas encounter opposing currents when incoming waves encounter an ebbing tide, the result slopes.

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: QUESTIONS

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIND AND ENCOUNTER

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: NOUN

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: VERB

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: INTRANSITIVE VERB

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: TRANSITIVE VERB

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: OTHER WORD TYPES

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: RELATED WORDS

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: DESCRIBE WORDS

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

FIND vs ENCOUNTER: QUESTIONS