1Having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly.

1. 1.1(of an object or sound) collected in its natural state and presented in a new context as part of a work of art or piece of music.
   ‘collages of found photos’
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   • ‘Sounds that can be used must be generated as found sound by the composer/performer.’
   • ‘More than a sonic photo album, this gives an interesting insight on the found sounds used on both albums.’
   • ‘Betke was better off when he was digesting found sounds into something murky and nebulous.’
   • ‘As the song comes to a close, a mandolin slowly takes over, building a discreet line around a series of found sounds.’
   • ‘On the first album, you used a lot of found sounds recorded around the house.’
   • ‘Using found musical reference, in a recognisable form is a tricky and perilous business.’
   • ‘He was okay, but you've seen found pieces and discarded tat turned into art before.’
   • ‘Brady Cranfield had set up a pristine white area to host his collection of found records.’
2. 1.2(of art) comprising or making use of found objects.
3. 1.3(of poetry) formed by taking a piece of non-poetic text and reinterpreting its structure metrically.

2with submodifier (of a ship) equipped; supplied.

1Establish or originate (an institution or organization), especially by providing an endowment.

1. 1.1Plan and begin the building of (a town or colony)
   ‘William Penn founded Pennsylvania’
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   • ‘The whole initial cost of founding the settlement was less than £250,000, all of which was paid by the settlers.’
   • ‘In fact, the settlement was founded by immigrants from Hertfordshire - second and third sons seeking riches in the New World, far from their more fortunate first-born brothers.’
   • ‘The settlement was founded in 628BC, and such was its bounding economic success that, within 100 years, seven temples were under construction.’
   • ‘It was 1100BC when the Phoenician traders first founded a settlement on a site of the town that now proudly boasts it is the oldest continually inhabited city in western Europe.’
   • ‘Scottish immigrants founded a settlement in Dunedin in 1848 with William Cargill as the resident agent.’
   • ‘Life in the island goes on almost like it did in the 14th century when the settlement was founded.’
   • ‘In the mid-1830s the Kendall settlers gave impetus to the westward movement of Norwegians by founding a settlement in the Fox River area of Illinois.’
   • ‘The currently generally accepted view is that this settlement was founded by the Salyes, a culturally homogeneous group by this time, around 190 BC.’
   • ‘The Spanish founded several settlements along the coast, and Honduras formed part of the colonial era Captaincy General of Guatemala.’
   • ‘In 1565, Spain claimed the Mariana Islands, but a colonial settlement was not founded until 1668.’
   • ‘On his return north he founded a settlement known as Kartharpur (the Abode of God) on the western banks of the Ravi river.’
   • ‘To the west of the Quay is the Rocks, where the first non-Aboriginal settlement was founded.’
   • ‘In 1508 he founded the settlement of Caparra and in 1509 he was made governor.’
   • ‘They also introduced many new names as they founded new settlements.’
   • ‘During the first summer he founded the settlement at Boston and some thousands of new settlers came in.’
   • ‘Industries were established soon after the settlement was founded - a brewery in 1843 and a flax mill, a tannery, solar salt works and a woollen mill by 1845.’
   • ‘Diego Velázquez began permanent settlement in 1511, founding Baracoa on the northeastern coast.’
   • ‘Not all of the early English settlements were founded entirely as commercial operations, though all of them depended on trade for their livelihood.’
   • ‘The Scots who founded the Otago settlement had a great concern with education and from 1858 moves were afoot to build an Athenaeum to contain a reading room, a library and a museum.’
   • ‘He was born in the town of St Gallen, which was founded by an Irish monk named Gallus.’
   Synonyms

   build, construct, erect, put up, elevate

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2usually be founded on/uponConstruct or base (a principle or other abstract thing) according to a particular principle or grounds.

1. 2.1(of a thing) serve as a basis for.
   ‘the company's fortunes are founded on its minerals business’
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   • ‘Much of the fortune of Dundee was founded on its jute mills and other textile industries, and its jute barons once competed with each other to build grand houses.’
   • ‘The Butterfield family was immensely wealthy, their fortune founded on the textile trade.’
   Synonyms

   base, build, construct, establish

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1Melt and mold (metal).

1. 1.1Fuse (materials) to make glass.
2. 1.2Make (an article) by melting and molding metal.
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   • ‘The double decker bridge, one of only three in New Zealand, was founded on cast iron cylinders sunk into the river bed.’