found

IPA: fˈaʊnd

noun

  • Food and lodging; board.
  • A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

verb

  • To start (an institution or organization).
  • To begin building.
  • To use as a foundation; to base.
  • To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
  • To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
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Examples of "found" in Sentences

  • I found the matchbox
  • Archaeologists found regalia.
  • Crayfish are found in the creeks.
  • Mount Gesundheit might be the name found on the map of a fly.
  • The building was founded as a leper hospital in the 12th century.
  • Generosity was a word found in dictionaries but rarely in mankind.
  • It was found several hours later on the awning of a nearby building.
  • Trombones found a place besides trumpets, making the sound more brassy.
  • I found no links to this article from mainspace, making that part inapt.
  • The cornices replicate the stepped pattern found throughout the building.
  • Overstatements found in articles do not make the overstatements accurate.
  • Carbodiimides hydrolyze to form ureas, which makes them rarely found in nature.
  • The following examples are also inaccurate; "I found him better than I expected _to have found_ him;"
  • We may have found this condemned army bacon further out on the plains than the section I am locating it in, but we _found_ it -- there is no gainsaying that.
  • If we put the sentence in the passive form, "The man was found _dead_," it will be seen that _dead_ is more than a mere modifier; it belongs to _man_ through the assertive force of _was found_.
  • "'Made in China' is a label found everywhere," said Richard N. Zare, Stanford professor of chemistry, who chaired an international committee to evaluate the country's National Natural Science Foundation in the past year.
  • " 'Made in China' is a label found everywhere," said Richard N. Zare, Stanford professor of chemistry, who chaired an international committee to evaluate the country's National Natural Science Foundation in the past year.
  • A month after the marriage, the body of this brother was found in the Thames, near London Bridge; there seemed some marks of violence about his throat, but they were not deemed sufficient to warrant the inquest in any other verdict than that of “found drowned.
  • Griesbach is found to have pursued the truly German plan of setting down _all_ the twenty-five MS.. (193) and _all_ the five Patristic authorities which up to his time had been cited as bearing on the genuineness of S. Mark xvi. 9-20: giving the former _in numerical order_, and stating generally concerning them that in one or other of those authorities it would be found recorded “that the verses in question were anciently _wanting_ in some, or in most, or in almost all the Greek copies, or in the most accurate ones: — or else that they were _found_ in a few, or in the more accurate copies, or in many, or in most of them, specially in the Palestinian Gospel.”

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