[syn: establish, base, ground, found]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. come upon unexpectedly or after searching;
- Example: "found art"
- Example: "the lost-and-found department"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Found \Found\,
imp. & p. p. of Find.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Founded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Founding.] [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to
cast. "Whereof to found their engines." --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Found \Found\, n.
A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Founded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Founding.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See
1st Bottom, and cf. Founder, v. i., Fund.]
1. 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.
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I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak.
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A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak.
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It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt.
vii. 25.
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2. 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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There they shall found
Their government, and their great senate choose.
--Milton.
Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See
Predicate.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Find \Find\ (f[imac]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Found (found); p.
pr. & vb. n. Finding.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS.
& OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna,
Goth. fin[thorn]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr.
pi`ptein to fall, Skr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.]
1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the
first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or
unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
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Searching the window for a flint, I found
This paper, thus sealed up. --Shak.
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In woods and forests thou art found. --Cowley.
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2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to
experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings;
to detect; to feel. "I find you passing gentle." --Shak.
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The torrid zone is now found habitable. --Cowley.
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3. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
(a) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
(b) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object
or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
(c) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to
find leisure; to find means.
(d) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
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Seek, and ye shall find. --Matt. vii.
7.
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Every mountain now hath found a tongue. --Byron.
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4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food
for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
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Wages [pounds]14 and all found. --London
Times.
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Nothing a day and find yourself. --Dickens.
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5. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to
establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of
indictment) against an accused person.
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To find his title with some shows of truth. --Shak.
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To find out, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) --
to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand.
"Canst thou by searching find out God?" --Job. xi. 7. "We
do hope to find out all your tricks." --Milton.
To find fault with, to blame; to censure.
To find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often used in
speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this
morning?
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
found
adj 1: come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art";
"the lost-and-found department" [ant: lost]
n 1: food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they
worked for $30 and found"
v 1: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn:
establish, set up, found, launch] [ant: abolish,
get rid of]
2: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new
department" [syn: establish, found, plant,
constitute, institute]
3: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some
observation" [syn: establish, base, ground, found]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "found":
assemble, author, base, bear, bed, beget, begin, blaze, blister,
block out, bottom, brand, breed, bring about, bring forth,
bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broach, build, build in,
burn, burn in, burn off, carve, cast, cause, cauterize, char,
chase, chisel, christen, coal, commence, conceive, confirm,
constitute, crack, create, cupel, cut, deep-dye, define, develop,
do, effect, effectuate, efform, embed, engender, engraft, engrave,
entrench, erect, establish, etch, fashion, father, figure, fix,
flame, float, forge, form, formalize, frame, generate, gestate,
give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to,
grave, ground, hew, impact, implant, impress, imprint, inaugurate,
incept, induct, infix, ingrain, initiate, inscribe, insculpture,
install, institute, introduce, invest, jam, knead, knock out,
launch, lay out, lay the foundation, lick into shape, lift up,
lodge, make, materialize, mint, model, mold, occasion, organize,
originate, oxidate, oxidize, pack, parch, pitch, plant, predicate,
print, produce, put in, put up, pyrolyze, raise, realize, rear,
rest, ring in, root, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scorch, sculp,
sculpt, sculpture, sear, seat, set, set afloat, set agoing, set in,
set on foot, set up, settle, shape, singe, sire, solder, stamp,
start, start going, start up, stay, stereotype, support, sustain,
swinge, tailor, thermoform, torrefy, turn on, usher in, vesicate,
vest, vulcanize, wedge, weld, work