find out

verb

1. 1

   get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

   I learned that she has two grown-up children

   I see that you have been promoted

2. 2

   trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act

   He was caught out

   She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks

3. 3

   establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

   find the product of two numbers

   The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize

4. 4

   find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

   I want to see whether she speaks French

   See whether it works