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found
1[ found ]
verb (used with object)
- to set up or establish on a firm basis or for enduring existence:
to found a new publishing company.
Synonyms: originate, institute, inaugurate, organize
- to lay the lowest part of (a structure) on a firm base or ground:
a house founded on solid rock.
- to base or ground (usually followed by on or upon ):
a story founded on fact.
- to provide a basis or ground for.
found
2[ found ]
verb
- simple past tense and past participle of find.
adjective
- equipped, outfitted, or furnished:
He bought a new boat, fully found.
- provided or furnished without additional charge, as to a tenant; included within the price, rent, etc. (often used postpositively):
Room to let, laundry found.
noun
- something that is provided or furnished without charge, especially meals given a domestic:
Maid wanted, good salary and found.
found
3[ found ]
verb (used with object)
- to melt and pour (metal, glass, etc.) into a mold.
- to form or make (an article) of molten material in a mold; cast.
found
1/ faʊnd /
adjective
- furnished, or fitted out
the boat is well found
- with meals, heating, bed linen, etc, provided without extra charge (esp in the phrase all found )
found
2/ faʊnd /
verb
- tr to bring into being, set up, or establish (something, such as an institution, society, etc)
- tr to build or establish the foundation or basis of
- also intr; foll by on or upon to have a basis (in); depend (on)
found
3/ faʊnd /
verb
- to cast (a material, such as metal or glass) by melting and pouring into a mould
- to shape or make (articles) in this way; cast
Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Archer was co-founded in 2018 by Adam Goldstein and Brett Adcock, who sold their software-as-a-service company Vettery to The Adecco Group for more than $100 million.
Mary Wilson, a founding member of the Supremes, a popular vocal trio of the 1960s that had 12 No.
The production company is Higher Ground — the venture founded by the Obamas in partnership with Netflix — which recently announced a slate of new projects for the streaming company.
Among the female founders who succeeded in raising last year, Everlywell, the at-home lab-testing startup founded by CEO Julia Cheek, claimed the top deal of the year for a startup founded by a women-only team, with a $175 million Series D round.
Before joining Amazon, Pinkham had founded South Africa’s first-ever internet service provider, Internet Africa in 1993.
Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible.
But in the case of black women, another study found no lack of interest.
“I found him to to be an interesting person,” Krauss said of the first impression.
At some point during his busy schedule, Israel found the time to write a book, titled The Global War on Morris.
As it happened, the coup members found the State House “fortified with additional soldiers.”
Fibrinous casts are characteristic of fibrinous bronchitis, but may also be found in diphtheria of the smaller bronchi.
After we had passed over this desert, we found several garisons to defend the caravans from the violence of the Tartars.
Frequently they are found in alveolar arrangement, retaining the original outline of the alveoli of the lung (Fig. 4, b).
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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