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- past and past participle of find
adjective
1Having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly.
- 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’
- ‘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.’
- 1.2(of art) comprising or making use of found objects.
- 1.3(of poetry) formed by taking a piece of non-poetic text and reinterpreting its structure metrically.
- 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.
2with submodifier (of a ship) equipped.
‘the ship was well found and seaworthy’
Pronunciation
verb
[with object]1Establish or originate (an institution or organization)
‘the monastery was founded in 1665’- ‘Berkeley Primary School was founded in 1930, originally as separate infant and junior schools.’
- ‘The club was originally founded in Monasterevin in 1989.’
- ‘The company got its start in 1964 by Bill Ellis, who originally founded the company to publish limited-edition prints.’
- ‘The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was founded.’
- ‘The school was originally founded by Thomas, Earl of Derby in 1509 and stood in what is now the grounds of Blackburn Cathedral.’
- ‘In 1997, she founded the School Leadership Academy, a nonprofit organization that fosters creative educational leadership.’
- ‘It was part of Rolls-Royce, one of the world's largest manufacturers of jet engines, which grew out of the original car-making company founded by Henry Rolls.’
- ‘A company is originally founded by an engineer or scientist with an entrepreneurial streak.’
- ‘He told them, of course, that a colony founded on Quaker principles should not arm itself.’
- ‘The town was formerly a Roman military installation and a Benedictine monastery was founded there in the ninth century.’
- ‘Just as the Apple computer appeared, two researchers founded a company called Adobe and developed the laser printer.’
- ‘His father was once an NU chairman, and his grandfather founded the organization.’
- ‘Winn-Dixie was founded by his grandfather, father and uncles.’
- ‘The association was founded over 15 years ago and has 14 volunteers on a regular basis.’
- ‘Fraternal organizations founded by one group would not admit members of the other groups.’
- ‘The school was founded in May 1969 when Holly Champion was chairman of the education committee.’
- ‘I worked in Vienna in a therapeutic home which was founded by some American Quakers after the war.’
- ‘A gild dedicated to the Virgin Mary was founded there in the early 15th century.’
- ‘The traditional women's organizations drew her support, as did those founded for newer purposes.’
- ‘In the colonial period, a number of major colleges were founded primarily for the purpose of educating clergymen.’
establish, set up, start, begin, get going, initiate, institute, put in place, form, create, bring into being, launch, float, originate, develop, inaugurate, constitute, endowView synonyms- 1.1Plan and begin the building of (a settlement)‘William Penn founded Pennsylvania’
- ‘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.’
build, construct, erect, put up, elevateView synonyms
2usually be founded on/uponBase (something) on a particular principle, idea, or feeling.
‘a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education’- ‘National is terribly clear that we support the idea that this nation is founded on the principle that we are all equal before the law, that we all have equal rights of participation in our Government.’
- ‘It should be a given, based on the principles it was founded on.’
- ‘Like it or not, our society for the most part was founded on a basic principle of freedom of choice.’
- ‘The band was founded on three basic ideas: there would be no designated rehearsal time; in fact, set rehearsals were ‘officially banned’.’
- ‘Why, this country was founded on such principles.’
- ‘Her empire is founded on the principle that anything worth doing is worth doing well, and that things done smartly are satisfying to use and joyous to experience.’
- ‘As Tim and others have reminded us at great length, this nation was founded on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.’
- ‘These movies were good because they were founded on an idea: the force.’
- ‘In this, they're denying both the evidence that our justice system does make mistakes, and the very principles it is founded on.’
- ‘Our country was founded on the principle that responsibility comes with rights, not the other way around.’
- ‘I certainly stand by my assertion that the country was not founded on a principle of progressive taxation.’
- ‘What I mean by that is, neither country is founded on some set-the-world-on-fire idea.’
- ‘This is what you get when your rules are not founded on principle.’
- ‘Their world is founded on principles and reasons so different from you, it is heresy you are guilty of, and you will pay.’
- ‘Indeed, it is founded on the idea that there is no definitive solution.’
- ‘The company was founded on the principle that art can be a powerful force.’
- ‘America's democratic republic is founded on the principle that all men are created equal.’
- ‘Many of today's girls' schools are founded on a commercial basis.’
- ‘We suggest that self-effacing humor is founded on the premise of aggression.’
- ‘The very notion of service is founded on the premise that you give more than you get.’
base, build, construct, establishView synonyms- 2.1Serve as a basis for.‘the company's fortunes are founded on its minerals business’
- ‘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.’
base, build, construct, establishView synonyms
Origin
Middle English from Old French fonder, from Latin fundare, from fundus ‘bottom, base’.
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verb
[with object]1Melt and mould (metal).
- 1.1Fuse (materials) to make glass.
- 1.2Make (an article) by melting and moulding metal.‘The double decker bridge, one of only three in New Zealand, was founded on cast iron cylinders sunk into the river bed.’
Origin
Early 16th century from French fondre, from Latin fundere ‘melt, pour’.
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