Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To melt (metal) and pour into a mold.
- transitive verb To make (objects) by pouring molten material into a mold.
- transitive verb To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence: synonym: establish.
- transitive verb To establish the foundation or basis of; base.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of find.
- To east; form into shape by casting in a mold, as metal or a metallic article.
- To lay the basis of; fix, set, or place, as on something solid; ground; base; establish on a basis, physical or moral.
- To take the first steps or measures in erecting or building up; begin to raise; make a beginning of; originate by active means: as, to
found a city or an empire. - To make provision for the establishment of; originate by gift, grant, or endowment: as, to
found an institution or a professorship by bequest. - To base one's opinion; rely: followed by on or upon: as, I found upon the evidence of my senses.
- noun The operation of casting metal, etc.; the melting of metal or of the materials for glass, etc.
- noun A three-sided, single-cut file, used in making combs.
- To hasten; go (to get or seek something); strive.
- A dialectal variant of
fond , fand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
find . - noun A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
- transitive verb To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
begin building . - verb To start some type of
organization orcompany . - verb transitive To
melt , especially ofmetal in anindustrial setting. - adjective Come upon unexpectedly or after searching.
- adjective
equipped ;supplied - noun Food and lodging,
board . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
find .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun food and lodging provided in addition to money
- adjective come upon unexpectedly or after searching
- verb set up or lay the groundwork for
- verb use as a basis for; found on
- verb set up or found
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The following examples are also inaccurate; "I found him better than I expected _to have found_ him;"
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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If we put the sentence in the passive form, "The man was found _dead_," it will be seen that _dead_ is more than a mere modifier; it belongs to _man_ through the assertive force of _was found_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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We may have found this condemned army bacon further out on the plains than the section I am locating it in, but we _found_ it -- there is no gainsaying that.
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A month after the marriage, the body of this brother was found in the Thames, near London Bridge; there seemed some marks of violence about his throat, but they were not deemed sufficient to warrant the inquest in any other verdict than that of found drowned.
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain 1921
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Griesbach is found to have pursued the truly German plan of setting down _all_ the twenty-five MS.. (193) and _all_ the five Patristic authorities which up to his time had been cited as bearing on the genuineness of S. Mark xvi. 9-20: giving the former _in numerical order_, and stating generally concerning them that in one or other of those authorities it would be found recorded “that the verses in question were anciently _wanting_ in some, or in most, or in almost all the Greek copies, or in the most accurate ones: — or else that they were _found_ in a few, or in the more accurate copies, or in many, or in most of them, specially in the Palestinian Gospel.”
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark John William Burgon 1850
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"'Made in China' is a label found everywhere," said Richard N. Zare, Stanford professor of chemistry, who chaired an international committee to evaluate the country's National Natural Science Foundation in the past year.
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" 'Made in China' is a label found everywhere," said Richard N. Zare, Stanford professor of chemistry, who chaired an international committee to evaluate the country's National Natural Science Foundation in the past year.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Natasha Khan 2011
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Mount Gesundheit might be the name found on the map of a fly.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Generosity was a word found in dictionaries but rarely in mankind.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Generosity was a word found in dictionaries but rarely in mankind.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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