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verb faʊnd past and past participle of find
adjective faʊndfaʊnd 1Having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly. - 1.1 (of an object or sound) collected in its natural state and presented in a new context as part of a work of art or piece of music.
Example sentencesExamples - On the first album, you used a lot of found sounds recorded around the house.
- As the song comes to a close, a mandolin slowly takes over, building a discreet line around a series of found sounds.
- More than a sonic photo album, this gives an interesting insight on the found sounds used on both albums.
- Betke was better off when he was digesting found sounds into something murky and nebulous.
- Using found musical reference, in a recognisable form is a tricky and perilous business.
- Brady Cranfield had set up a pristine white area to host his collection of found records.
- Sounds that can be used must be generated as found sound by the composer/performer.
- He was okay, but you've seen found pieces and discarded tat turned into art before.
- 1.2 (of art) comprising or making use of found objects.
- 1.3 (of poetry) formed by taking a piece of non-poetic text and reinterpreting its structure metrically.
2with submodifier (of a ship) equipped. the ship was well found and seaworthy
Rhymes abound, aground, around, astound, bound, compound, confound, dumbfound, expound, ground, hound, impound, interwound, mound, pound, profound, propound, redound, round, sound, stoneground, surround, theatre-in-the-round (US theater-in-the-round), underground, wound verb faʊndfaʊnd [with object]1Establish or originate (an institution or organization) the monastery was founded in 1665 Example sentencesExamples - I worked in Vienna in a therapeutic home which was founded by some American Quakers after the war.
- The company got its start in 1964 by Bill Ellis, who originally founded the company to publish limited-edition prints.
- In 1997, she founded the School Leadership Academy, a nonprofit organization that fosters creative educational leadership.
- The school was originally founded by Thomas, Earl of Derby in 1509 and stood in what is now the grounds of Blackburn Cathedral.
- Winn-Dixie was founded by his grandfather, father and uncles.
- It was part of Rolls-Royce, one of the world's largest manufacturers of jet engines, which grew out of the original car-making company founded by Henry Rolls.
- Fraternal organizations founded by one group would not admit members of the other groups.
- The association was founded over 15 years ago and has 14 volunteers on a regular basis.
- Just as the Apple computer appeared, two researchers founded a company called Adobe and developed the laser printer.
- In the colonial period, a number of major colleges were founded primarily for the purpose of educating clergymen.
- The school was founded in May 1969 when Holly Champion was chairman of the education committee.
- His father was once an NU chairman, and his grandfather founded the organization.
- A company is originally founded by an engineer or scientist with an entrepreneurial streak.
- The traditional women's organizations drew her support, as did those founded for newer purposes.
- The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was founded.
- Berkeley Primary School was founded in 1930, originally as separate infant and junior schools.
- The town was formerly a Roman military installation and a Benedictine monastery was founded there in the ninth century.
- A gild dedicated to the Virgin Mary was founded there in the early 15th century.
- He told them, of course, that a colony founded on Quaker principles should not arm itself.
- The club was originally founded in Monasterevin in 1989.
Synonyms establish, set up, start, begin, get going, initiate, institute, put in place, form, create, bring into being, launch, float, originate, develop, inaugurate, constitute, endow - 1.1 Plan and begin the building of (a settlement)
William Penn founded Pennsylvania Example sentencesExamples - He was born in the town of St Gallen, which was founded by an Irish monk named Gallus.
- Scottish immigrants founded a settlement in Dunedin in 1848 with William Cargill as the resident agent.
- The whole initial cost of founding the settlement was less than £250,000, all of which was paid by the settlers.
- On his return north he founded a settlement known as Kartharpur (the Abode of God) on the western banks of the Ravi river.
- In fact, the settlement was founded by immigrants from Hertfordshire - second and third sons seeking riches in the New World, far from their more fortunate first-born brothers.
- The settlement was founded in 628BC, and such was its bounding economic success that, within 100 years, seven temples were under construction.
- Life in the island goes on almost like it did in the 14th century when the settlement was founded.
- It was 1100BC when the Phoenician traders first founded a settlement on a site of the town that now proudly boasts it is the oldest continually inhabited city in western Europe.
- Diego Velázquez began permanent settlement in 1511, founding Baracoa on the northeastern coast.
- The Scots who founded the Otago settlement had a great concern with education and from 1858 moves were afoot to build an Athenaeum to contain a reading room, a library and a museum.
- In the mid-1830s the Kendall settlers gave impetus to the westward movement of Norwegians by founding a settlement in the Fox River area of Illinois.
- The currently generally accepted view is that this settlement was founded by the Salyes, a culturally homogeneous group by this time, around 190 BC.
- During the first summer he founded the settlement at Boston and some thousands of new settlers came in.
- The Spanish founded several settlements along the coast, and Honduras formed part of the colonial era Captaincy General of Guatemala.
- Industries were established soon after the settlement was founded - a brewery in 1843 and a flax mill, a tannery, solar salt works and a woollen mill by 1845.
- They also introduced many new names as they founded new settlements.
- To the west of the Quay is the Rocks, where the first non-Aboriginal settlement was founded.
- Not all of the early English settlements were founded entirely as commercial operations, though all of them depended on trade for their livelihood.
- In 1565, Spain claimed the Mariana Islands, but a colonial settlement was not founded until 1668.
- In 1508 he founded the settlement of Caparra and in 1509 he was made governor.
Synonyms build, construct, erect, put up, elevate plan, lay plans for start to build, lay the foundations of
2usually be founded on/uponBase (something) on a particular principle, idea, or feeling. a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education Example sentencesExamples - The company was founded on the principle that art can be a powerful force.
- National is terribly clear that we support the idea that this nation is founded on the principle that we are all equal before the law, that we all have equal rights of participation in our Government.
- This is what you get when your rules are not founded on principle.
- Why, this country was founded on such principles.
- The very notion of service is founded on the premise that you give more than you get.
- These movies were good because they were founded on an idea: the force.
- It should be a given, based on the principles it was founded on.
- As Tim and others have reminded us at great length, this nation was founded on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
- Their world is founded on principles and reasons so different from you, it is heresy you are guilty of, and you will pay.
- We suggest that self-effacing humor is founded on the premise of aggression.
- Many of today's girls' schools are founded on a commercial basis.
- America's democratic republic is founded on the principle that all men are created equal.
- Our country was founded on the principle that responsibility comes with rights, not the other way around.
- I certainly stand by my assertion that the country was not founded on a principle of progressive taxation.
- Her empire is founded on the principle that anything worth doing is worth doing well, and that things done smartly are satisfying to use and joyous to experience.
- Indeed, it is founded on the idea that there is no definitive solution.
- Like it or not, our society for the most part was founded on a basic principle of freedom of choice.
- The band was founded on three basic ideas: there would be no designated rehearsal time; in fact, set rehearsals were ‘officially banned’.
- What I mean by that is, neither country is founded on some set-the-world-on-fire idea.
- In this, they're denying both the evidence that our justice system does make mistakes, and the very principles it is founded on.
Synonyms base, build, construct, establish - 2.1 Serve as a basis for.
the company's fortunes are founded on its minerals business Example sentencesExamples - Much of the fortune of Dundee was founded on its jute mills and other textile industries, and its jute barons once competed with each other to build grand houses.
- The Butterfield family was immensely wealthy, their fortune founded on the textile trade.
Synonyms base, build, construct, establish
Origin Middle English: from Old French fonder, from Latin fundare, from fundus 'bottom, base'. The word found ‘establish’ goes back to Latin fundare ‘to lay a base for’, from fundus ‘bottom, base’, source also of foundation (Late Middle English), founder (Middle English) ‘sink’, and fund (mid 17th century) from a secondary sense of fundus ‘landed property’; and profound (Middle English) ‘deep’. Found ‘melt and mould’ is from French fondre (source of the melted cheese fondue (late 19th century)), from Latin fundere ‘melt, pour’ (found also in fuse (late 16th century)), and dates from the early 16th century.
verbfaʊndfaʊnd [with object]1Melt and mould (metal). - 1.1 Fuse (materials) to make glass.
- 1.2 Make (an article) by melting and moulding metal.
Example sentencesExamples - The double decker bridge, one of only three in New Zealand, was founded on cast iron cylinders sunk into the river bed.
Origin Early 16th century: from French fondre, from Latin fundere 'melt, pour'. foundfaʊnd past and past participle of find
adjectivefoundfaʊnd 1Having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly. - 1.1 (of an object or sound) collected in its natural state and presented in a new context as part of a work of art or piece of music.
Example sentencesExamples - Sounds that can be used must be generated as found sound by the composer/performer.
- He was okay, but you've seen found pieces and discarded tat turned into art before.
- Using found musical reference, in a recognisable form is a tricky and perilous business.
- Betke was better off when he was digesting found sounds into something murky and nebulous.
- On the first album, you used a lot of found sounds recorded around the house.
- Brady Cranfield had set up a pristine white area to host his collection of found records.
- As the song comes to a close, a mandolin slowly takes over, building a discreet line around a series of found sounds.
- More than a sonic photo album, this gives an interesting insight on the found sounds used on both albums.
- 1.2 (of art) comprising or making use of found objects.
- 1.3 (of poetry) formed by taking a piece of non-poetic text and reinterpreting its structure metrically.
2with submodifier (of a ship) equipped; supplied. the ship was two years old, well found and seaworthy
verbfaʊndfound [with object]1Establish or originate (an institution or organization), especially by providing an endowment. the monastery was founded in 1665 Example sentencesExamples - The traditional women's organizations drew her support, as did those founded for newer purposes.
- Berkeley Primary School was founded in 1930, originally as separate infant and junior schools.
- A company is originally founded by an engineer or scientist with an entrepreneurial streak.
- The club was originally founded in Monasterevin in 1989.
- The town was formerly a Roman military installation and a Benedictine monastery was founded there in the ninth century.
- In the colonial period, a number of major colleges were founded primarily for the purpose of educating clergymen.
- He told them, of course, that a colony founded on Quaker principles should not arm itself.
- The school was founded in May 1969 when Holly Champion was chairman of the education committee.
- A gild dedicated to the Virgin Mary was founded there in the early 15th century.
- The company got its start in 1964 by Bill Ellis, who originally founded the company to publish limited-edition prints.
- Just as the Apple computer appeared, two researchers founded a company called Adobe and developed the laser printer.
- In 1997, she founded the School Leadership Academy, a nonprofit organization that fosters creative educational leadership.
- Winn-Dixie was founded by his grandfather, father and uncles.
- His father was once an NU chairman, and his grandfather founded the organization.
- Fraternal organizations founded by one group would not admit members of the other groups.
- I worked in Vienna in a therapeutic home which was founded by some American Quakers after the war.
- It was part of Rolls-Royce, one of the world's largest manufacturers of jet engines, which grew out of the original car-making company founded by Henry Rolls.
- The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was founded.
- The school was originally founded by Thomas, Earl of Derby in 1509 and stood in what is now the grounds of Blackburn Cathedral.
- The association was founded over 15 years ago and has 14 volunteers on a regular basis.
Synonyms establish, set up, start, begin, get going, initiate, institute, put in place, form, create, bring into being, launch, float, originate, develop, inaugurate, constitute, endow - 1.1 Plan and begin the building of (a town or colony).
Example sentencesExamples - He was born in the town of St Gallen, which was founded by an Irish monk named Gallus.
- Life in the island goes on almost like it did in the 14th century when the settlement was founded.
- In 1508 he founded the settlement of Caparra and in 1509 he was made governor.
- Industries were established soon after the settlement was founded - a brewery in 1843 and a flax mill, a tannery, solar salt works and a woollen mill by 1845.
- During the first summer he founded the settlement at Boston and some thousands of new settlers came in.
- Not all of the early English settlements were founded entirely as commercial operations, though all of them depended on trade for their livelihood.
- On his return north he founded a settlement known as Kartharpur (the Abode of God) on the western banks of the Ravi river.
- The currently generally accepted view is that this settlement was founded by the Salyes, a culturally homogeneous group by this time, around 190 BC.
- To the west of the Quay is the Rocks, where the first non-Aboriginal settlement was founded.
- It was 1100BC when the Phoenician traders first founded a settlement on a site of the town that now proudly boasts it is the oldest continually inhabited city in western Europe.
- They also introduced many new names as they founded new settlements.
- The Spanish founded several settlements along the coast, and Honduras formed part of the colonial era Captaincy General of Guatemala.
- The whole initial cost of founding the settlement was less than £250,000, all of which was paid by the settlers.
- Diego Velázquez began permanent settlement in 1511, founding Baracoa on the northeastern coast.
- The settlement was founded in 628BC, and such was its bounding economic success that, within 100 years, seven temples were under construction.
- In 1565, Spain claimed the Mariana Islands, but a colonial settlement was not founded until 1668.
- The Scots who founded the Otago settlement had a great concern with education and from 1858 moves were afoot to build an Athenaeum to contain a reading room, a library and a museum.
- In the mid-1830s the Kendall settlers gave impetus to the westward movement of Norwegians by founding a settlement in the Fox River area of Illinois.
- Scottish immigrants founded a settlement in Dunedin in 1848 with William Cargill as the resident agent.
- In fact, the settlement was founded by immigrants from Hertfordshire - second and third sons seeking riches in the New World, far from their more fortunate first-born brothers.
Synonyms build, construct, erect, put up, elevate
2usually be founded on/uponConstruct or base (a principle or other abstract thing) according to a particular principle or grounds. a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education Example sentencesExamples - I certainly stand by my assertion that the country was not founded on a principle of progressive taxation.
- As Tim and others have reminded us at great length, this nation was founded on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
- Indeed, it is founded on the idea that there is no definitive solution.
- The band was founded on three basic ideas: there would be no designated rehearsal time; in fact, set rehearsals were ‘officially banned’.
- What I mean by that is, neither country is founded on some set-the-world-on-fire idea.
- It should be a given, based on the principles it was founded on.
- We suggest that self-effacing humor is founded on the premise of aggression.
- National is terribly clear that we support the idea that this nation is founded on the principle that we are all equal before the law, that we all have equal rights of participation in our Government.
- Their world is founded on principles and reasons so different from you, it is heresy you are guilty of, and you will pay.
- Our country was founded on the principle that responsibility comes with rights, not the other way around.
- Her empire is founded on the principle that anything worth doing is worth doing well, and that things done smartly are satisfying to use and joyous to experience.
- This is what you get when your rules are not founded on principle.
- The company was founded on the principle that art can be a powerful force.
- America's democratic republic is founded on the principle that all men are created equal.
- Why, this country was founded on such principles.
- The very notion of service is founded on the premise that you give more than you get.
- These movies were good because they were founded on an idea: the force.
- Like it or not, our society for the most part was founded on a basic principle of freedom of choice.
- In this, they're denying both the evidence that our justice system does make mistakes, and the very principles it is founded on.
- Many of today's girls' schools are founded on a commercial basis.
Synonyms base, build, construct, establish - 2.1 (of a thing) serve as a basis for.
the company's fortunes are founded on its minerals business Example sentencesExamples - The Butterfield family was immensely wealthy, their fortune founded on the textile trade.
- Much of the fortune of Dundee was founded on its jute mills and other textile industries, and its jute barons once competed with each other to build grand houses.
Synonyms base, build, construct, establish
Origin Middle English: from Old French fonder, from Latin fundare, from fundus ‘bottom, base’. verbfaʊndfound [with object]1Melt and mold (metal). - 1.1 Fuse (materials) to make glass.
- 1.2 Make (an article) by melting and molding metal.
Example sentencesExamples - The double decker bridge, one of only three in New Zealand, was founded on cast iron cylinders sunk into the river bed.
Origin Early 16th century: from French fondre, from Latin fundere ‘melt, pour’. |