Found
[faʊnd]
Definition
(noun.) food and lodging provided in addition to money; 'they worked for $30 and found'.
(adj.) come upon unexpectedly or after searching; 'found art'; 'the lost-and-found department' .
Editor: Susanna--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Find
(-) imp. & p. p. of Find.
(v. t.) To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
(n.) A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
(v. i.) To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
(v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Base, set, fix, place, ground, lay the foundation of.[2]. Build, construct, erect, raise.[3]. Establish, institute, originate.[4]. Cast, form in a mould.
Editor: Maureen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Establish, institute, fix, set, build, set_up, base, endow, rest, ground,plant, root
ANT:Disestablish, subvert, supplant, uproot
Edited by Linda
Definition
v.t. to form by melting and pouring into a mould: to cast.—ns. Found′er one who melts and casts metal as a brassfounder; Found′ing metal-casting; Found′ry Found′ery the art of founding or casting: the house where founding is carried on.
v.t. to lay the bottom or foundation of: to establish on a basis: to originate: to endow.—v.i. to rely.—ns. Foundā′tion the act of founding: the base of a building: the groundwork or basis: a permanent fund for a benevolent purpose or for some special object; Foundā′tioner one supported from the funds or foundation of an institution; Foundā′tion-mus′lin -net gummed fabrics used for stiffening dresses and bonnets; Foundātion-stone one of the stones forming the foundation of a building esp. a stone laid with public ceremony; Found′er one who founds establishes or originates: an endower:—fem. Found′ress.
a little child found deserted.—Foundling hospital an institution where such are brought up.
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Examples
- Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On the second day he found his wife and Sir Percival whispering together quite familiar, close under the vestry of the church. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I soon found Briony Lodge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Is it he who found the body? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It looks as if the old man's spirit had found rest at last; don't it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had even yielded to her wish for a long engagement, since she had found the one disarming answer to his plea for haste. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Oh, take me to your heart, my husband, for my love was founded on a rock, and it endures! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well founded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Trinity Church was founded in 1696 and rebuilt in 1839. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Storey, who subsequently founded the Chicago Times, and became celebrated in the newspaper world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nor is it less infallible, because men cannot distinctly explain the principles, on which it is founded. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A mistake, therefore, of right may become a species of immorality; but it is only a secondary one, and is founded on some other, antecedent to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But it is not merely this affair, she continued, on which my dislike is founded. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Pure siliceous sands are very valuable for the manufacture of glass, for making mortar, filters, ameliorating dense clay soils, for making molds in founding and for many other purposes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They may be the happiest of men, but our principal aim in founding the State was not to make them happy. Plato. The Republic.
- In _metal founding_ the employment of chill moulds is an important step. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And will not the city, which you are founding, be an Hellenic city? Plato. The Republic.
- Not in the least: you might expiate your enjoyment of them by founding a hospital. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Romulus was here before he built Rome, and thought something of founding a city on this spot, but gave up the idea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There is, then, no pretext of reason for founding the one upon the other; while each of them has a foundation peculiar to itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He dresses at that gentleman (by whom he is patronized), talks at him, walks at him, founds himself entirely on him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Still later Muhammad, another prophet, appears in Arabia and founds Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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