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FOUNDER
founder, beginner, founding father, father
(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution; āGeorge Washington is the father of his countryā
founder
(noun) a worker who makes metal castings
laminitis, founder
(noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
founder
(verb) stumble and nearly fall; āthe horses founderedā
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically; āThe wall collapsedā; āThe business collapsedā; āThe dam brokeā; āThe roof collapsedā; āThe wall gave inā; āThe roof finally gave under the weight of the iceā
founder
(verb) sink below the surface
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
founder
One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)
(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
Antonyms
• (one who founds): ruiner
Etymology 2
Noun
founder (plural founders)
The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
Etymology 3
Noun
founder (plural founders)
(veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
Verb
founder (third-person singular simple present founders, present participle foundering, simple past and past participle foundered)
(intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
(intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
(intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
(transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
(transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
Usage notes
Frequently confused with flounder. Both may be applied to the same situation, the difference is the severity of the action: floundering (struggling to maintain position) comes first, followed by foundering (losing it by falling, sinking or failing).
Anagrams
• Neudorf, fonduer, refound
Source: Wiktionary
Found"er, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. fondeor, F. fondateur, L. fundator.]
Definition: One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
Found"er, n. Etym: [From Found to cast.]
Definition: One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4.
– Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.
Found"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Foundering.] Etym: [OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F. s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to establish.]
1. (Naut.)
Definition: To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. For which his horse fearƩ gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. Chaucer.
3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." Shak.
Found"er, v. t.
Definition: To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
Found"er, n. (Far.) (a) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. (b) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. James White.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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