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finder
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun finder has 3 senses
- finder(n = noun.person) Array - someone who comes upon something after searching; Array is a kind of quester, searcher, seeker
- finder(n = noun.person) discoverer, spotter - someone who is the first to observe something; Array is a kind of beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient
- finder(n = noun.artifact) view finder, viewfinder - optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest; Array is a part of camera, photographic camera, gun-sight, gunsight, scope, telescope
Derived form verb find3
has particulars: co-discoverer
Derived forms verb find6, verb find2, verb find1, verb find3
is a kind of optical device
CIDE DICTIONARY
finder, n.
- One who, or that which, finds; [1913 Webster]
- A slide ruled in squares, so as to assist in locating particular points in the field of vision. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
finder, n.
1 a person who finds.
2 a small telescope attached to a large one to locate an object for observation.
3 the viewfinder of a camera.
1 a person who finds.
2 a small telescope attached to a large one to locate an object for observation.
3 the viewfinder of a camera.
Idiom
finders keepers colloq. whoever finds a thing is entitled to keep it.
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