Finder vs Retention - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between finder and retention

is that finder is one who finds, or discovers something while retention is retention.

(en noun)

One who finds, or discovers something.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

* 2012 , Alan R. Romero, Property Law For Dummies (page 229)

The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.

An optical device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest

* pure finder

(wikipedia retention)

(en noun)

The act of retaining or something retained

* 1599 , , II. iv. 95:

No woman's heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention .

The act or power of remembering things

A memory; what is retained in the mind

(medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces

(obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.

* 1599 , , V. i. 79:

His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint,

(obsolete) A place of custody or confinement.

(legal) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.

(Erskine)

(Craig)