Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of casting metals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of smelting and casting metals.
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- verb Present participle of
found . - noun The action of the verb to
found . - adjective Who or that
founds or found.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
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Examples
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As soon as he went down to Washington, ironically, the very first school I'm aware of that the Secretary or the President were involved in founding is a school called Ariel Academy in Chicago.
Mike Green: NFTE: Injecting Entrepreneurship into Inner City Education (VIDEO) Mike Green 2010
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This is a work for which 'ground-breaking' really is the mot juste, yet although it has earned Reich the title 'founding father of minimalism', he himself regards it as leaving minimalism far behind.
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Is it acceptable to use the term founding fathers?
Latest Articles 2009
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Instead, what has defined us as a nation since our founding is our capacity to shape our destiny — our determination to fight for the America we want for our children.
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I was one of the what you call founding members but I [inaudible].
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It acknowledges the tremendous faith, hard work and incredible sacrifices that each of them have made throughout the years in founding and building up the Network, said EWTN President and
Theology 2009
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It acknowledges the tremendous faith, hard work and incredible sacrifices that each of them have made throughout the years in founding and building up the Network, said EWTN President and
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As Machiavelli says, RE-founding is incredibly difficult to the point it essentially never happens.
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It acknowledges the tremendous faith, hard work and incredible sacrifices that each of them have made throughout the years in founding and building up the Network, said EWTN President and
Television 2009
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It acknowledges the tremendous faith, hard work and incredible sacrifices that each of them have made throughout the years in founding and building up the Network, said EWTN President and
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