Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
- transitive verb To melt (metal) and pour into a mold.
- transitive verb To make (objects) by pouring molten material into a mold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A three-sided, single-cut file, used in making combs.
- noun The operation of casting metal, etc.; the melting of metal or of the materials for glass, etc.
- To hasten; go (to get or seek something); strive.
- A dialectal variant of
fond , fand. - 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.
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 . - adjective Come upon unexpectedly or after searching.
- adjective
equipped ;supplied - noun Food and lodging,
board . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
find . - verb transitive To
melt , especially ofmetal in anindustrial setting.
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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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The following examples are also inaccurate; "I found him better than I expected _to have found_ him;"
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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Mount Gesundheit might be the name found on the map of a fly.
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Generosity was a word found in dictionaries but rarely in mankind.
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Generosity was a word found in dictionaries but rarely in mankind.
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