Founder

['faʊndə(r)] or ['faʊndɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a person who founds or establishes some institution; 'George Washington is the father of his country'.

(noun.) a worker who makes metal castings.

(verb.) stumble and nearly fall; 'the horses foundered'.

(verb.) sink below the surface.

伊迪丝錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

(n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.

(v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

(v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

(v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.

(v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

(n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.

(n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.

博妮塔校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Originator, institutor, establisher, planter.[2]. Caster (of metals).

v. n. [1]. Sink (as a ship by filling with water), go to the bottom.[2]. Fail, miscarry.[3]. Trip, stumble, fall.

安娜贝尔整理

同義詞及反義詞：

[See FOUND_and_SINK]

SYN:Author, instituter, {establishes_originator}, planter

ANT:Subverter, destroyer

校對:玛克辛

解釋/意思:

v.i. to go to the bottom: to fill with water and sink.—v.t. to cause to sink: to disable by injuring the feet (of a horse).—adj. Found′erous causing to founder.

錄入:温德尔