From en.wiktionary.org:
[Found.]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [found] , [en] [when followed by "the, this" and similar words]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
See [en].
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
***** Synonyms
- [past participle] [en] ; [en] [by chance or upon advice, obs.]
***** Derived terms
[en]
**** Noun
[-]
1. Food and lodging; board .
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1872 |year_published=2009 |edition=HTML |editor= |author=James De
Mille |title=The Cryptogram |chapter=
|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/4/3/28435/28435-h/28435-h.htm |genre=
|publisher=The Gutenberg Project |isbn= |page= |passage=I'll only give you the
usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and FOUND." / "And—what?" / "
FOUND—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also. }}
1. * [en]
*** Etymology 2
[en] From [en], from [en] (Modern French: [fr]), from [en]. Compare [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb] [en]
1. [en] To start (an institution or organization ).
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1913 | author= 吴语: Robert Barr (writer)
|title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
|chapter=4|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1796924W |passage=“[...] That
woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he
bereft her of all power in the great business he FOUNDED. …”}}
1. To begin building . [en]
2. [en] To use as a foundation ; to base .
3. * [volume=I]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
***** Conjugation
[old=1]
***** Synonyms
- [to start organization] [en]
***** Antonyms
- [to begin building] [en]
- [to start organization] [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|cofound |foundable |foundling |new-founded |refound }}
***** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[to start an organization]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [grg]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [disused]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Yiddish: [yi]
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[to begin building]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Volapük: [vo]
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[checktrans-top]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
**** References
- Oxford Online Dictionary, found
- WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University
*** Etymology 3
From [en], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [es] and [es], and [fr].
**** Verb
[en-verb] [en]
1. [en] To melt , especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast .
3. * [book=6]
***** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[melt]
**** Noun
[!]
1. [en] 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
[en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1.. A thin, single-cut file for comb -makers.
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm] [enm]