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Found

Definition: Found

Found

Adjective

1. Come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the lost-and-found department".

Noun

1. Food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked for $30 and found".

Verb

1. Set up or found; "She set up a literacy program".

2. Set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department".

3. Use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "found" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Found \Found\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Founded; Founding.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Found

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. To form in a mold, such as articles of cast iron, by melting the metal and pouring; cast b. The name for the melting operation that the raw materials undergo in afurnace. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Found

Synonyms: base (v), constitute (v), establish (v), ground (v), institute (v), launch (v), plant (v), set up (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: lost (adj), abolish (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Found

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Absence

Adjective: absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence.

Beginning

Usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the initiative; head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the foundations; (prepare); found; (cause); set up, set on foot, agoing, set abroach, set the ball in motion; apply the match to a train; broach; open up, open the door to.

Cause

Verb: be the cause; n of; originate; give origin to, give rise, to, give occasion to; cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate; bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about; produce; create; set up, set afloat, set on foot; found, broach, lay the foundation of; lie at the root of.

Disapprobation

Disapproved, chid;Verb: in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting.

Guilt

Adjective: guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.

Imperfection

Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.

Inferiority

Adjective: inferior, smaller; small; minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate; (imperfect); sub, subaltern; thrown into the shade; weighed in the balance and found wanting; not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to.

Insufficiency

Adjective: insufficient, inadequate; too little; not enough; unequal to; incompetent; (impotent); " weighed in the balance and found wanting "; perfunctory; (neglect); deficient; (incomplete); wanting; Verb: imperfect; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off.

Support

Give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply foundations, lend foundations; bottom, found, base, ground, imbed, embed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Found

Specialty definitions using "found": Weighed in the Balance, and found Wanting. (references)
Etymologies containing "found": Uvitic. (references)

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Modern Usage: Found

DomainUsage

Screenplays

And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

So it was, when I'd given up the search for vampires, that a vampire found me. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Or it may be the police to tell me they've found her dead (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

When you've been made fun of as much, you find another place to live, and he's found that place up here, in his mind (The Mighty; writing credit: Charles Leavitt. Based on the novel 'Freak the Mighty' by Rodman Philbrick.)

Have you found God yet, Gump (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Lyrics

I finally found unvarished truth (Thank God I Found You; performing artist: 98 Degrees)

I found out about you (FOUND OUT ABOUT YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

It's midnight at the lost and found (Midnight At The Lost & Found; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Now who would have guessed Milton's paradise lost could be found (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)

I just saw a picture, from the lost and found (When I Say; performing artist: Air Supply)

Clever

Found missing (references; author: unknown)

Stolen Painting Found by Tree (references; author: unknown)

The proctologist called, they found your head. (references; author: unknown)

He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame. (references; author: unknown)

A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Don't Look for Me at Places Where I Can't Be Found (1970)

They Found a Cave (1962)

I Found a Dog (1949)

He Found a Star (1941)

The Man Who Found Himself (1937)

Song Titles

I've Found Someone of My Own (performing artist: Free Movement)

Found Out About You (performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

Now That We Found Love (performing artist: Heavy D. & The Boyz)

Thank God I Found You (performing artist: Mariah Carey)

Baby, Now That I've Found You (performing artist: The Foundations)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Found

DomainTitle

Books

  • Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million (reference)

  • Sisters Found (Johnston, Joan. Hawk's Way.) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Lost and Found (reference)

  • Yu Yu Hakusho - Spirit Detective - Yusuke Lost, Yusuke Found (Vol. 1) (reference)

  • Davey & Goliath:Christmas Lost & Found (reference)

  • National Geographic's Dinosaur Giants: Found (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Found

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Found

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Shows photo of test tubes, petri dishes and other essential laboratory tools, used for cancer research, found in FDA Laboratory in 1938. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This mole has a characteristic "fried egg" appearance. The eccentric papule is a perfectly ordinary nevus. The diagnostic histologic features are found in the macular portion of the mole, particularly at its shoulder - i.e. Where the papule meets the macule. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

33 year old white male who died of inhalation anthrax; photomicrograph demonstrating necrotic lymph node found at time of autopsy; H&E stain. Credit: CDC.

West Nile virus is a flavivirus commonly found in Africa, West Asia, and the Middle East. It is closely related to St. Louis encephalitis virus found in the United States. The virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses and some other mammals. Credit: CDC.

A survey of galaxy clusters by the Hubble telescope has found what could be some of the most ... Credit: NASA.

A Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer has found the equivalent of the proverbial ... Credit: NASA.

Mariner 9 image of the "Inca City". During the Mariner 9 mission, scientists found an unusual rectilinear structure associatedwith the south polar pitted terrain which they dubbed the "Inca City". Located near-80 degrees latitude and 64 degrees longitude, it is likely the result of wind deflationof deposits from underlying rough terrain. The "cells" in the image are about 4-5kilometers in width. Credit: NASA.

These Karman vortices formed over the islands of Broutona, Chirpoy, and Brat Chirpoyev (Chirpoy's Brother), all part of the Kuril Island chain found between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Japan. Credit: NASA.

Robert Williams with first Fessenden oscillator on the tug Susie D First successful test of sonic system Looking for icebergs but also found bottom. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Bronze triangulation mark These marks are found throughout the United States and its territories Triangulation marks have known latitudes, longitudes, and plane coordinates. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Found
 

"Kitty" by Thomas Edwards
Commentary: "Found this cat in a restruant in Greece. Very hungary cat."
"Naturally Twisting" by John W. Thompson
Commentary: "Some interesting plants I found one day whilst walking in Fussa City, Japan. A lot of green I know, but please view this in the large version. ."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Found

AuthorQuotation

Edmund Burke

War never leaves where it found a nation.

Elbert Hubbard

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Since when was genius found respectable?

Francis Bacon

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Lord Byron

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Sextus Aurelius Propertius

Never change when love has found its home.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Found

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And if such are found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be detained, without injury to their bodies or goods, until information be received by us, or by our chief justiciar, how the merchants of our land found in the land at war with us are treated; and if our men are safe there, the others shall be safe in our land. (reference)

John Locke

1690

One example of this is to be found in the Scotch Annals. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Constitution

1791

Clause 2: A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Such persons shall, if found guilty, be sentenced to punishments laid down by law. (reference)

United Nations

1948

Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. (reference)

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

In more recent cases, all on the graduate school [347 U.S. 483, 492] level, inequality was found in that specific benefits enjoyed by white students were denied to Negro students of the same educational qualifications. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Found

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

The rest of the gentlemen being now in the room, Emma found herself obliged to turn from him for a few minutes, and listen to Mr. Cole

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

This she found the hardest part of all.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

He ventured to raise his eyes, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Or I might readily have found a more serious task

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He had found his thunderbolt

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He found it and pushed it open and went in.

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

This found I on my tent this morning

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Casy found a stick on the ground and held down the tongue with it, and the uneven breath rattled in and out.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

But when he heard my voice, and found what I delivered to be regular and rational, he could not conceal his astonishment

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Otherwise we shall be found sailing under false colors, and be inevitably cashiered at last by our own opinion, as well as that of mankind

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Found

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Anthrax can be found globally. (references)

Genes are found on chromosomes. (references)

Taenia solium is found worldwide. (references)

Business

These inquiries found the reports to be groundless. (references)

Their bodies were found 3 days later in a nearby town. (references)

Some exceptions to this method of distribution can be found. (references)

Children

Congo

DRC children also have been found in Pointe Noire. (references)

Ghana

It is found primarily among the ethnic Ewe group in the Volta Region. (references)

Eritrea

When soldiers were found to be under the age of 18, they were removed from service. (references)

Civil Liberties

Colombia

Parra later was found dead. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon expelled Nchama, who found refuge in Spain. (references)

Malaysia

However, Malay-language Christian materials can be found. (references)

Discrimination

Slovak Republic

The committee completed its assignment in December, and found that the Penal Code sufficiently addresses antidiscrimination concerns, but both improved legislation protecting civil rights and better implementation of the legislation was needed. (references)

Economic History

North Korea

Good harbors are found on the eastern coast. (references)

Croatia

Reliable and capable representatives can be found. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

Ajeti's body was found in the street. (references)

Colombia

The wounded man later was found dead. (references)

Peru

On May 9, he was found dead in his cell. (references)

Indigenous People

Gabon

NGO workers visited more than a dozen villages and found that most Pygmies there lived in conditions tantamount to slavery, working on plantations for "masters" for one plate of rice and a few cents per day. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

A swastika was found inside the box. (references)

Germany

Police found Nazi symbols and related items in the suspects' homes. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Few non-Muslim university graduates found government jobs. (references)

GUATEMALA

Guatemala was found to be eligible under both programs in May. (references)

Eritrea

Opposition organizations in exile are found in Sudan and Ethiopia. (references)

Political Rights

Belarus

The OSCE/ODIHR found the broadcast media also overwhelmingly negative. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

Observers also expressed concern about the accuracy of voters' lists, since a number of persons found their names deleted on election day. (references)

Peru

On April 8, first round presidential elections as well as congressional elections were held; observers found them to be generally free and fair. (references)

Trade

China

Banks can generally be found to take this small risk. (references)

Singapore

Details may be found at their website, www.gov.sg/customs. (references)

Portugal

The customs value of imported goods is found by a set of six methods. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Temperate area is found between 3,000 and 6,000 feet. (references)

Portugal

Prices are comparable to those found in the United States. (references)

Ghana

A few men may be found in traditional attire during business hours. (references)

Women

Jordan

A coroner's report found that the girl had not been sexually active. (references)

India

It was found in Assam that 30 percent of rape cases involved girls below 18 years of age. (references)

Bangladesh

Women also are found in the electronics, food processing, beverage, and handicraft industries. (references)

Worker Rights

Croatia

No strikes were found to be illegal during the year. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Illegal employment is found primarily in urban, light-industrial areas. (references)

El Salvador

When their parents could not be found, they were turned over to the ISPM. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper. In his character of editor he is closely allied to the blackmailer by the tie of occasional identity; for in truth the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species. Lickspittling is more detestable than blackmailing, precisely as the business of a confidence man is more detestable than that of a highway robber; and the parallel maintains itself throughout, for whereas few robbers will cheat, every sneak will plunder if he dare.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Found

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Catherine Zeta-Jones

It's hard and Rob Marshall, his brilliance along with Bill Kander found the missing link that were put on screen.

Dick Van Dyke

Those guys found me in a Starbucks one morning and said, we understand you like to harmonize, and I said, I sure do. And we've been together for about two years now.

Erin Runnion

The business of all this. We had the quietness, the three days before they found him, but when we knew she was gone. We had those three days to grieve. And then once they found him, it was just an enormous relief.

Liza Minnelli

Gosh. I spent a month there. I had to. You have to. Years of doing things one way. But I wanted to learn and I wanted to know. That's the help that I found, if that helps at all. I hope so.

Mariah Carey

This is the one I had. It's kind of like a jokey one, but then when I found out that my grandmother had one, I thought it was just an interesting parallel.

Rush Limbaugh

A report released Tuesday found that most states spend only a fraction of what federal health officials have recommended on measures like anti-tobacco programs at schools and counseling to help people quit smoking.

Shimon Peres

I don't think so. I think the difference is a matter of days, not of weeks. And I do believe a solution will be found to overcome this obstacle.

Tim McGraw

My mother used to keep Christmas presents in her closet. I was going through the closet looking for Christmas presents. I ran across my birth certificate. That's how I found out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Found

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797A sanction commonly respected even among savages has been found in this instance insufficient to protect from massacre the emissaries of peace.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Some of the States have paid a laudable attention to this object, but every degree of neglect is to be found among others.

Herbert C. Hoover

1929-1933Its purpose will be to make such recommendations for reorganization of the administration of Federal laws and court procedure as may be found desirable.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953At the same time, we are producing power at Grand Coulee and at Bonneville which played a mighty part in winning the war and which will found a great peacetime industry in the Northwest.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Wherever waste is found, I will eliminate it.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974After I announced this policy, I found that the leaders of the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, and other nations which might be threatened by Communist aggression, welcomed this new direction in American foreign policy.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989We are told that on his body was found a diary.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001My fellow Americans, we have found a third way.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Commission on Human Rights found that Iraq continues to commit extremely grave violations of human rights, and that the regime's repression is all pervasive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Found

"Found" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 58.04% of the time. "Found" is used about 36,193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)58.04%21,008428
Lexical Verb (past tense)41.87%15,154612
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.06%2176,261
Lexical Verb (base form)0.03%10111,207
                    Total100.00%36,193N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Found

The following table summarizes the usage of "found" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FoundLast name10085,011
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Found

Expressions using "found": be found be found guilty be found lacking be found out found footage found guilty found on found shipment found smth. on smth. found upon lost and found lost and found department lost and found property not to be found nowhere to be found theft of found property weighed in the balance and found wanting well found. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "found": found-object.

Ending with "found": here-found, new-found, newly-found.

Containing "found": new-found-land.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Found

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

new found glory

3,765

damion dead found hall

48

found money

780

i finally found someone

48

found glory lyrics new

628

found glory guitar new tab

46

lost and found

487

thank god i found you

45

paradise found

364

dns found host not

36

found money.com

222

network path not found

35

found new power

182

paradise found shirt

35

new found glory picture

175

found photo

34

found

124

found new

34

actor dead found jag

109

pet lost and found

32

found slovakia

103

found poem

32

404 found not slovakia

103

boy closet found in

29

found glory new tab

100

carey found god i lyrics mariah thank

29

found glory new pic

89

i found a girl

26

found god i lyrics thank

62

found glory icon new

26

found glory new wallpaper

58

finally found i lyrics someone

25

found not operating system

55

lost found dog

23

found magazine

54

found nefertiti

22

dead found jag star

54

found friend glory lyrics new over

22

buddy found glory icon new

49

body found

22
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Found

Language Translations for "found"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

voorkom (be found, be located, find, find oneself, forestall, prevent), verkeer (be found, be located, concern, find, find oneself, relate, traffic). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

formoj (constitute, construct, create, form, make, make up, Mold, mould, organize, shape), themeloj (constitute, establish, float, institute, lay the foundations of, open, plant, repose, set up), mbështet (abet, adhere, back, back up, build, buttress, countenance, hold up, lean, pillow, prop up, push, shore, support, sustain, uphold), krijoj (brew, compose, conceive, contract, create, develop, erect, establish, forge, form, institute, make, originate, pen, procreate, produce, raise, shape, sow, transact), i gjetur, derdh (discharge, disgorge, dump, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, escape, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, reject, run, scatter, shed, slop, spill, strew, tap, tip off, upset). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

موجود (available, present), ‏وجب (have to, lead, must, necessitate, ought, point, should), ‏سبك (cast, molding, moulding, shaping, smelting), ‏أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), ‏أسس (establish, institute, organize, plant, predicate, promote, set, set up, work up). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

учредявам (constitute, erect, institute, organize), топя (dissolve, fuse, melt, render, run, smelt, steep, thaw, try, unfreeze), основавам (base, bottom, charter, establish, ground, institute, launch, organize, plant, promote, set up, start), отливам (cast, pour out), намирам (be found, detect, discover, find, fit in, get, hit, hunt out, judge, land, locate, look up, raise, regard, root out, root up, run down, rustle up, scare up, secure, see, strike, track down, turn up), лея (dip, pour, rain, shed, shower), базирам (base, rest). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

发现 (Discover, Discovered, Discoveries, Discovering, Discovery, find, finding). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zřídit se, založit (base, begin, constitute, establish, file, float, ground, institute, launch, mislay, plant, set up, start, start up, wedge), vybudovat (build, build up), ustavit (establish, form), slévat, postavit (build, construct, contrast, erect, field, pitch, place, put, put up, raise, rear, right, set, state), odlít. (various references)

   

Danish

  

oprette (erect, establish). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

grondvesten (erect, establish), funderen (erect, establish), baseren (base, erect, establish, ground). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

fondi (erect, establish), surbazigi (base, ground). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

stovna (erect, establish). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

قالب کردن (Bloc, Block, Cake, Form), قالب ریزی کردن , زمان ماضی واسم فعولdnif , ذوب کردن (Melt), ریخته گری , ریختن (Disgorge, Dust, Infuse, Infusion, Lave, Pour, Shed, Strew), بنیادنهادن (Incept, Inchoate, Institute). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

perustaa (base, erect, establish, set up, start). (various references)

   

French

  

fonder. (various references)

   

French Canadian

  

trouve-t-il (is it found). (various references)

   

German

  

gründen (base, constitute, erect, establish, float, form, incorporate, institute, launch, organize, set up, to found, to plant), gefunden (encountered, finding, funds), begründen (account for, erect, establish, give reasons for, ground, justify, prove, set up, substantiate, to found, to justify). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιδρύω (erect, establish, set up). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ליסוד (appoint, establish, institute, set up), ליסד (establish, institute), לכונן (constitute, establish, institute), להשתית (base, establish, lay the foundation), להשתות (establish, warp, weave), לבסס (base, establish, ground, predicate), הקים (establish). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vmilyennek tapasztal (to come to know, to discover, to find), vmilyennek talál (to find), talált, megtalál (discover, to find, to seek out), meglel (to find), lel (to find), létesít (activate, charter, instal, install, make, to erect, to establish, to initiate, to institute, to originate, to rig up, to set up), alapít (base, constitute, endow, establish, form, institute, to base, to endow, to establish, to institute). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyelenggarakan (concoct), mengasaskan (establish), mendirikan (build, cause to stand up, erect, establish), cor (pour). (various references)

   

Irish

  

bunaigh. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fondere (blend, cast, erect, establish, fuse, interfuse, melt, melt down, merge, Mold, mould, smelt), fondare (base, base oneself, build, erect, establish, ground, ground floor, set up). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

遺失物取り扱い所 (lost and found office), 蹲踞 (crouching, formal crouch performed at the beginning of a sumo or kendo match, stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens), 蹲い (stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens), (stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens), 青天白日 (be cleared of all the charge, be found completely innocent), 近海魚 (fish found in coastal waters), 見当たらない (not be found), 見当たる (to be found), 見当 (aim, approx, be found, direction, estimate, guess, mark), 見つかる (to be discovered, to be found), 見付かる (to be discovered, to be found), 白だと判る (to be found innocent), 拾得物 (found article), 乗る (to be found in, to be in harmony with, to be mentioned in, to be taken in, to board, to feel like doing, to get on, to get up on, to join, to mount, to ride in, to share in, to spread), 家を興す (to found a house, to raise the reputation of one's family). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しろだとわかる (to be found innocent), しゅうとくぶつ (found article), きんかいぎょ (fish found in coastal waters), のる (to appear, to be found in, to be in harmony with, to be mentioned in, to be recorded, to be taken in, to board, to feel like doing, to get on, to get up on, to join, to mount, to ride in, to share in, to spread), つくばい (stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens), せいてんはくじつ (be cleared of all the charge, be found completely innocent), いしつぶつとりあつかいじょ (lost and found office), いえをおこす (to found a house, to raise the reputation of one's family), けんとう (a votive lantern in a shrine or temple, aim, approx, be found, boxing, consideration, direction, door light, estimate, examination, fighting bravely, good fight, good luck!, good pitching, guess, investigation, lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house, mark, prizefighting, scrutiny, strenuous efforts, study, winter), みつかる (to be discovered, to be found), みあたらない (not be found), みあたる (to be found, to come across, to find). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

발견하는 (Discovered, founded). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gruntal (base, bottom, bottom as fishing). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

støpe, opprette (establish, institute), grunnlegge. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

funda (erect, establish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oundfay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

założyć (erect, establish), ustanowić (erect, establish). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

fundar (base, erect, establish, ground, institute), estabelecer (base, build up, constitute, determine, enplane, enter into, erect, establish, fix, fix up, implant, impose, institute, lay down, make, make out, make up, ordain, organize, prescribe, seat, set, set up, settle, situate, stipulate), encontrado, basear (base, bottom, ground). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

encontrará (one willfind, will be found). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fonda (erect, establish, form, plant, set out, start), întemeia (base, create, erect, establish, form, institute, organize, set out, underlain). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

учреждать (establish, institute, set up), создавать (build, construct, create, establish, form, give rise, make up, shape), основывать (establish, founded, founding, ground, institute, plant), закладывать фундамент. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

fhuair, stéidhich (lay a foundation). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zasnovati (base, establish), utemeljiti, ustanoviti (affiliate, establish, institute, pin down, restate), topiti (alloy, liquate, melt, render), osnovati (build, set up, start), osnivati (establish). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fundar (base, endow, erect, establish, form, institute, justify, launch, promote, set up, start), fundir (blow, burn, fuse, fuze, melt, melt down, merge, overwhelm, water). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

grunda (base, erect, establish, float, form, ground, plant, predicate, prime, put, set up), upprätta (create, erect, establish, execute, institute, make, raise, rehabilitate, restore, retrive, set up), stifta (establish). (various references)

   

Thai

  

สร้าง (build, establish, fetch out), กริยาช่องที่ 2 และ 3 ของ find, หลอม (smelt). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

temelini atmak (lay the foundations of), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), kalıba dökmek (cast, Mold, mould), dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, consist, endure, go on, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, resist, rest, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand up, stand upon, stay, stick, stick it, stick out, survive, sweat out, take, take it, thole, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand), dayandırmak (attribute, base, base on, base upon, ground, predicate, trace), dökmek (cast, deplenish, deplete, diffuse, dump, effuse, empty, pour, pour from, pour out, pour out of, shed, shower, slop, slosh on, spill, teem, tip, tip over, unbosom). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

esaslsandyrmak, dцretmek (create, start). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

створювати (build, charter, coin, compose, construct, create, erect, mint, originate, produce, raise up), обгрунтовувати (base, put), засноувати. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sylfaenu (base), seilio (base, ground), sefydlu (establish, settle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Found

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

ku. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

appareant, appareas, appareat, apparebant, apparebat, apparebis, apparebit, apparebo, apparebunt, apparens, apparente, apparentes, apparentibus, apparere, apparerent, appareret, apparet, apparuerat, apparuerimus, apparuerint, apparueris, apparuerit, apparuerunt, apparui, apparuisse, apparuisset, apparuistis, apparuit, apparuitque, condasque, condat, condatur, condentur, condere, conderet, condiderunt, condidit, condita, conditae, condite, condito, conditor, conditorum, conditum, conditus, condunt, constituo, deduc, deducam, deducant, deducantur, deducar, deducat, deducatis, deducebant, deducebatur, deducemini, deducens, deducentibus, deducere, deducerem, deducerent, deduceret, deduces, deducesque, deducet, deducetis, deduci, deducis, deducit, deducite, deducta, deducti, deductum, deducturum, deductus, deducunt, deducuntur, deduxerunt, deduxeruntque, deduxi, deduxisset, deduxisti, deduxit, funda, fundaberis, fundabis, fundabitur, fundabo, fundabunt, fundamini, fundans, fundant, fundare, fundas, fundasti, fundat, fundata, fundatae, fundati, fundato, fundatum, fundatur, fundatus, fundaveris, fundaverunt, fundavit, fundent, fundentque, fundere, fundes, fundesque, fundet, fundetque, fundetur, fundo, instituere, instituerunt, instituisti, instituit, instituo, instituta, institutum, institutus, silvestre, silvestrem, silvestria, silvestris. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

founden. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

fondre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Found

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 6, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintNwe de euren carin enantion kuriou tou qeou
Latin405VulgateNoe vero invenit gratiam coram Domino
Old English990West SaxonNoe soðlice wæs Gode gecweme, ond gyfe ætforan him gemette.
Middle English1395WyclifNoe forsothe founde grace bifore the Lord.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleBut yet Noe found grace in the syghte of the LORde.
Jacobean English1611King JamesBut Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Victorian English1833WebsterBut Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Basic English1964OgdenBut Noah had grace in the eyes of God.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Found

LanguageGenesis Chapter 6, Verse 8
CebuanoApan si Noe nakakaplag ug kahamuot sa mga mata ni Jehova.
Chinese惟 有 挪 亞 在 耶 和 華 眼 前 蒙 恩 。
CroatianAli je Noa našao milost u oèima Jahvinim.
DanishMen Noa fandt Nåde for HERRENs Øjne
DutchMaar Noach vond genade in de ogen des HEEREN.
FinnishMutta Nooa sai armon Herran silmien edessä.
FrenchMais Noé trouva grâce aux yeux de l`Éternel.
GermanAber Noah fand Gnade vor dem HERRN.
Haitian Creole¶ Men, Noe te fè Bondye plezi.
HungarianDe Noé kegyelmet talála az Úr elõtt.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariTetapi Nuh menyenangkan hati TUHAN.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaTetapi Nuh itu mendapat karunia di hadirat Tuhan.
Korean그 러 나 노 아 는 여 호 와 께 은 혜 를 입 었 더 라
Maori¶ Ko Noa ia i manakohia e Ihowa.
NorwegianMen Noah fant nåde for Herrens øine.
PortugueseNoé, porém, achou graça aos olhos do Senhor.   
RumanianDar Noe a cqpqtat milq knaintea Domnului.
RussianоПК ЦЕ ПВТЕМ ВМБЗПДБФШ РТЕД ПЮБНЙ зПУРПДБ.
SwedishMen Noa hade funnit nåd för HERRENS ögon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Found

Derivations

Words beginning with "found": foundation, foundational, foundationally, foundationless, foundations, founded, founder, foundered, foundering, founders, founding, foundling, foundlings, foundries, foundry, founds. (additional references)

Words ending with "found": cofound, confound, dumbfound, dumfound, newfound, outfound, profound, refound, unfound. (additional references)

Words containing "found": cofounded, cofounder, cofounders, cofounding, cofounds, confounded, confoundedly, confounder, confounders, confounding, confoundingly, confounds, dumbfounded, dumbfounder, dumbfoundered, dumbfoundering, dumbfounders, dumbfounding, dumbfounds, dumfounded, dumfounding, dumfounds, profounder, profoundest, profoundly, profoundness, profoundnesses, profounds, refoundation, refoundations, refounded, refounding, refounds, typefounder, typefounders, typefounding, typefoundings, unconfounded, unfounded. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Found" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cound, faund, ffount, floun, flound, foant, foen, foent, Fondo, Fonu, fonul, fouad, foud, foufd, fould, foun, founde, foundt, foundy, foune, founf, founr, fourd, fourn, Fourna, Frolunda, froun, funcd, fundi, fundo, fundy, funrd, fuom, jound, Kouandi, lound. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Found"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "found" (pronounced fou"nd)
4f ou" n dconfound, newfound, profound.
3-ou" n dabound, aground, around, astound, bound, browned, crowned, downed, drowned, expound, frowned, ground, hound, impound, inbound, mound, pound, propound, rebound, redound, renowned, resound, round, sound, surround, ultrasound, unbound, unsound, unwound, wound.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Found

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fondu.

Words within the letters "d-f-n-o-u"

-1 letter: fond, fund, undo.

-2 letters: don, dun, duo, fon, fou, fud, fun, nod, oud, udo.

-3 letters: do, no, nu, od, of, on, un.

 Words containing the letters "d-f-n-o-u"
 

+1 letter: fondue, fondus, founds, unfold, unfond.

 

+2 letters: cofound, fondues, founded, founder, foundry, fungoid, outfind, refound, unfolds, unfound.

 

+3 letters: cofounds, confound, confused, confuted, dumfound, flounced, flounder, fogbound, fortuned, founders, founding, foxhound, frondeur, frounced, fungoids, newfound, nonfluid, outfinds, outfound, overfund, profound, refounds, unfoiled, unfolded, unfolder, unforced, unforged, unforked, unformed, unroofed.

 

+4 letters: cofounded, cofounder, confounds, diffusion, dumbfound, dumfounds, flounders, foundered, foundling, foundries, foxhounds, foxhunted, frondeurs, nonfluids, outfawned, overfunds, profounds, refounded, softbound, underflow, underfoot, unfocused, unfolders, unfolding, unfounded, unfreedom, unfrocked, uniformed, upfolding, wolfhound, wonderful.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency
17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient
21. Bible Trace
22. Derivations
23. Rhymes
24. Anagrams
25. Bibliography


  

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