Pronunciations (4)
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/ˈfaʊ̯nd/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈfæʊ̯nd/
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/ˈfaːnd/
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/fʊnd/
Pronunciation notes
- Northumbria
Noun
Food and lodging; board.
Usage- Uncountable
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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.
He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found.
Verb
To start (an institution or organization).
Usage- Transitive
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“[…] 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. …”
To begin building.
Usage- Transitive
To use as a foundation; to base.
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Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance.
[…] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he founded his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches.
His Heir of Line in 1785 claimed the Dignity of Lord Spynie, founding the claim upon the Charter of 1590, but it being certain that a Dignity of the Peerage of Scotland could not, at least in the reign of James the Sixth, be granted by a Charter making no reference to a Seat in Parliament or the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, Counsel abandoned the claim under the Charter and insisted that the other evidence sufficiently supported the claim of the Heir of Line.
Verb
To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
Usage- Transitive
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
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Whereof to found their engines.
Noun
The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.
Usage- no-plural
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Noun
A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
Usage- Transitive
Adjective
come upon unexpectedly or after searching
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found art
the lost-and-found department
Noun
food and lodging provided in addition to money
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they worked for $30 and found
Verb
set up or found
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She set up a literacy program
set up or lay the groundwork for
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establish a new department
use as a basis for; found on
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base a claim on some observation