finding (root: find)

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: find=ing
• COUNT in NET: 4 in 4 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

finding, n. 

•  That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage."  [1913 Webster]
•  Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.  [1913 Webster]
•  The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.  Burrill.  [1913 Webster]

  "After his friends finding and his rent."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

finding, n.
1 (often in pl.) a conclusion reached by an inquiry.
2 (in pl.) US small parts or tools used by workmen.

THESAURUS

finding

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

ROGET THESAURUS

finding

Judgment

N judgment, result, conclusion, upshot, deduction, inference, ergotism, illation, corollary, porism, moral, estimation, valuation, appreciation, judication, dijudication, adjudication, arbitrament, arbitrement, arbitration, assessment, ponderation, valorization, award, estimate, review, criticism, critique, notice, report, decision, determination, judgment, finding, verdict, sentence, decree, findings of fact, findings of law, res judicata, plebiscite, voice, casting vote, vote, opinion, good judgment, judge, umpire, arbiter, arbitrator, asessor, referee, censor, reviewer, critic, connoisseur, commentator, inspector, inspecting officer, twenty-twenty hindsight, armchair general, monday morning quarterback, judging, judicious, determinate, conclusive, on the whole, all things considered, a Daniel come to judgment, and stand a critic, hated yet caress'd, it is much easier to be critical than to be correc, la critique est aisee et l'art est difficile, nothing if not critical, O most lame and impotent conclusion.