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Etymology 1

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Seefind.

Verb

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found

  1. simplepast andpastparticiple offind
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Noun

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found (uncountable)

  1. Food and lodging;board.
    • 1872, James De Mille,The Cryptogram[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published2009:
      I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, andfound." / "And—what?" / "Found—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also.
    • 1985,Cormac McCarthy,Blood Meridian, page 5:
      He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages andfound.

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishfounden, fromOld Frenchfounder (Modern French:fonder), fromLatinfundāre. Comparefund.

Verb

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found (third-person singular simple presentfounds,present participlefounding,simple past and past participlefounded)(transitive)

  1. Tostart (aninstitution ororganization).
    • 1913,Robert Barr, chapter 4, inLord Stranleigh Abroad[2]:
      [] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business hefounded. …”
  2. Tobeginbuilding.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
  3. To use as afoundation; tobase.
    • 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter XXII, inZeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London:[]A[ndrew] Strahan; andT[homas] Cadell, [],→OCLC,page203:
      Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs tofound any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance.
    • 1827,[Alexander] Dirom,Remarks on Free Trade, and on the State of the British Empire, Edinburgh:[] Cadell & Co., [], Edinburgh; andLongman, Rees, & Co., London,page36:
      [] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts hefounded his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches.
    • 1867,In the House of Lords. Supplemental Case on Behalf of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, on His Claim to the Dignity of Lord Kinloss in the Peerage of Scotland.,page13:
      His Heir of Line in 1785 claimed the Dignity of Lord Spynie,founding the claim upon the Charter of 1590, but it being certain that a Dignity of the Peerage of Scotland could not, at least in the reign of James the Sixth, be granted by a Charter making no reference to a Seat in Parliament or the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, Counsel abandoned the claim under the Charter and insisted that the other evidence sufficiently supported the claim of the Heir of Line.
Conjugation
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Conjugation offound
infinitive(to)found
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularfoundfounded
2nd-personsingularfound,foundestfounded,foundedst
3rd-personsingularfounds,foundethfounded
pluralfound
subjunctivefoundfounded
imperativefound
participlesfoundingfounded
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  • (antonym(s) ofto begin building):ruin
  • (antonym(s) ofto start organization):dissolve,abolish
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Translations
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to start an organization
to begin building
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References

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  • Oxford Online Dictionary, found
  • WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University

Etymology 3

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FromMiddle Englishfounden, fromOld Frenchfondre, fromLatinfundere. Cognate withSpanishfundir andhundir, andFrenchfondre.

Verb

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found (third-person singular simple presentfounds,present participlefounding,simple past and past participlefounded)(transitive)

  1. Tomelt, especially ofmetal orglass in anindustrial setting.
  2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; tocast.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book VI”, inParadise Lost. [], London:[] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [];[a]nd by Robert Boulter [];[a]nd Matthias Walker, [],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [],1873,→OCLC:
      Whereof tofound their engines.
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meltseemelt

Noun

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found (plural not attested)

  1. (glassblowing) The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.

Etymology 4

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Noun

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found (pluralfounds)

  1. A thin, single-cutfile forcomb-makers.

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