found
(adjective) come upon unexpectedly or after searching; “found art”; “the lost-and-found department”
found
(noun) food and lodging provided in addition to money; “they worked for $30 and found”
establish, base, ground, found
(verb) use as a basis for; found on; “base a claim on some observation”
establish, found, plant, constitute, institute
(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for; “establish a new department”
establish, set up, found, launch
(verb) set up or found; “She set up a literacy program”
receive, get, find, obtain, incur
(verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract); “These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation”; “His movie received a good review”; “I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions”
discover, find
(verb) make a discovery; “She found that he had lied to her”; “The story is false, so far as I can discover”
determine, find, find out, ascertain
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; “find the product of two numbers”; “The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize”
rule, find
(verb) decide on and make a declaration about; “find someone guilty”
discover, find
(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding; “Roentgen discovered X-rays”; “Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle”
witness, find, see
(verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with; “We found Republicans winning the offices”; “You’ll see a lot of cheating in this school”; “The 1960’s saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions”; “I want to see results”
detect, observe, find, discover, notice
(verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; “She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water”; “We found traces of lead in the paint”
find
(verb) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; “I found myself in a difficult situation”; “When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room”
find
(verb) obtain through effort or management; “She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents”; “We found the money to send our sons to college”
recover, retrieve, find, regain
(verb) get or find back; recover the use of; “She regained control of herself”; “She found her voice and replied quickly”
find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with; “We find this idea in Plato”; “I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here”; “She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day”
find, regain
(verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; “Did you find your glasses?”; “I cannot find my gloves!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
found
simple past tense and past participle of find
• (past participle): discovered; repertitious (by chance or upon advice, obs.)
found (uncountable)
(obsolete) Food and lodging; board.
found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded) (transitive)
(transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
(transitive) To begin building.
• (to start organization): establish
• (to begin building): ruin
• (to start organization): dissolve, abolish
found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded) (transitive)
To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
found (plural founds)
A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
• fondu
Source: Wiktionary
Found,
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Find.
Found, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Founded; p. pr. & vb. n. Founding.] Etym: [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]
Definition: To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. "Whereof to found their engines." Milton.
Found, n.
Definition: A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
Found, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Founded; p. pr. & vb. n. Founding.] Etym: [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See 1st Bottom, and cf. Founder, v. i., Fund.]
1. 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. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak. It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. vii. 25.
2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton.
Syn.
– To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See Predicate.
Find, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Found; p. pr. & vb. n. Finding.] Etym: [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.]
1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.
2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. "I find you passing gentle." Shak. The torrid zone is now found habitable. Cowley.
3. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost. (a) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom. (b) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance. (c) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means. (d) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. Seek, and ye shall find. Matt. vii. 7. Every mountain now hath found a tongue. Byron.
4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. Wages ÂŁ14 and all found. London Times. Nothing a day and find yourself. Dickens.
5. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person. To find his title with some shows of truth. Shak. To find out, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand. "Canst thou by searching find out God" Job. xi. 7. "We do hope to find out all your tricks." Milton.
– To find fault with, to blame; to censure.
– To find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often used in speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this morning
Find, v. i. (Law)
Definition: To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. Burrill.
Find, n.
Definition: Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archæologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
