Found

Word FOUND
Character 5
Hyphenation found
Pronunciations /faʊnd/

Definitions and meanings of "Found"

What do we mean by found?

To melt (metal) and pour into a mold. transitive verb

To make (objects) by pouring molten material into a mold. 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

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. noun

To hasten; go (to get or seek something); strive.

A dialectal variant of fond, fand.

Preterit and past participle of find. noun

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.

Imp. & p. p. of find.

A thin, single-cut file for combmakers. noun

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 transitive verb

To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.

To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.

(ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.

To gain, as the object of desire or effort.

To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

To point out.

(ditransitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.

To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.

To supply; to furnish.

To provide for

To determine or judge.

To discover game.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Found

The word "found" in example sentences

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_. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

The following examples are also inaccurate; "I found him better than I expected _to have found_ him;" ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1923)

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. ❋ Unknown (1921)

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.” ❋ John William Burgon (1850)

" '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. ❋ Natasha Khan (2011)

"'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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mount Gesundheit might be the name found on the map of a fly. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Some favored “Nokhchii,” a variant of a name found in a seventh century Armenian chronicle, but it had only recently been used by Chechens themselves. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

Generosity was a word found in dictionaries but rarely in mankind. ❋ Augusto Cury (2011)

"Inerrant" itself is not a word found in the Bible or even known to Christian theologians for most of history. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Unfortunately, the website where the term found its origins has disappeared. ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2009)

Rightfully, this liberal employment of the term found no takers, since in its wider usage the concept of empathy looses all of its distinctiveness. ❋ Stueber, Karsten (2008)

Historia, I found, comes from a Greek word for "learning or knowing by inquiry," inquiry naming not only the method but also its motive. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But in the military, the word found a home: “These scientists had worked for the Manhattan District,” wrote The New Yorker in 1946 about our early atomic research, “and the Army, temporarily abandoning its policy of ‘compartmentalization of information,’ had recently brought them together.” ❋ William Safire (2003)

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