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Meanings of finder in English

Portuguese
descobridor
Catalan
descobridor

Someone who is the first to observe something.

        descobridor
        Portuguese
        visor
        Catalan
        visor d'imatge

        Optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest.

              visor
              Usage of finder in English
              1
              He was almost certain that the witch-finder was a gold cigarette case.
              Witch Week
              2
              The Order made them as tests to help the finder with .
              Ice Like Fire
              3
              After a few days with no response, the finder expanded the search.
              Wired
              4
              The finder of the coat hurried to the Dodge house, and Mrs.
              The High School Left End; or, Dick & Co. Grilling on the Footbal...
              5
              The jury is also, through its collective decision-making, an excellent fact finder.
              Jamaica Observer
              6
              One of the line items was the payment of a finder's fee.
              A visible darkness
              7
              My reward is a 10 percent finder's fee, paid off the top.
              Ford county: stories
              8
              The fulsome flatterer of former times has degenerated into a chronic fault-finder.
              The Jericho Road
              9
              On racks above the chart table were a radiotelephone and radio direction-finder.
              Dead calm
              10
              Whether knight or varlet shall the finder be, I will not say.
              In the Court of King Arthur
              11
              And I saw that Potan was working over a deck telescope finder.
              Brigands of the Moon
              12
              As it is, you are an intellectual fault-finder and a physical hypochondriac.
              The Colossus: A Novel
              13
              Go to our club finder page to get into football near you.
              BBC
              14
              They started toward the hull, the superfluous finder dangling from Lambert's belt.
              The Complete Alien Omnibus
              15
              Accordingly he invented a machine, something like a range-finder for big guns.
              Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters; Or, Battling with Flames from...
              16
              She had our finder on you- Icouldn'tpush her away from it.
              Tarrano the Conqueror
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              Translations for finder
              Finder through the time
              Finder across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
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