finder

名词 n.
/ˈfaɪndə/    /ˈfaɪndəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
    — Finders keepers, losers weepers.
  2. A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
    — Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.
  3. A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living. UK,historical
    — Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.

词形变化

finders plural

词源

From Middle English findere. By surface analysis, find + -er.
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