found — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. Food and lodging; board.

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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.

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1. To start (an institution or organization).

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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. …”

2. To begin building.

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3. 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.

Verbo

1. To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.

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2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.

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   Whereof to found their engines.

Sostantivo

1. The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.

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   • no-plural
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Sostantivo

1. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

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Aggettivo

1. come upon unexpectedly or after searching

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   lost

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   found art

   the lost-and-found department

Sostantivo

1. food and lodging provided in addition to money

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   wagepayearningsremunerationsalary

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   they worked for $30 and found

Verbo

1. set up or found

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   establishset uplaunch

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   openopen up

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   She set up a literacy program

2. set up or lay the groundwork for

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   establishplantconstituteinstitute

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   initiatepioneer

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   establish a new department

3. use as a basis for; found on

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   establishbaseground

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   originateinitiatestart

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   base a claim on some observation