| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Founder.[Websters]
2. To be nonsuited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have collapsed, slumped or flopped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be crumpled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have fathered or authored. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be submersed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have crashed or busted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have flooded, deluged, swamped or dowsed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have immersed or submerged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have toppled, plunged or descended.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb founder.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (founder) | 1. Fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered".[Wordnet]. 2. Sink below the surface.[Wordnet]. 3. Stumble and nearly fall; "the horses foundered".[Wordnet]. 4. Break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice".[Wordnet]. 5. To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.[Websters]. 6. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.[Websters]. 7. To fail; to miscarry.[Websters]. 8. To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: foundering, foundered, founders, founderer, founderers, founderingly and founderedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FOUNDERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FOUNDERED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Made lame in the feet by inflammation and extreme tenderness.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of founder. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: founder
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bell founder | 1: One whose occupation it is to found or cast bells. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A person who casts metal bells. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Chest founder | A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Founder effect | The founder effect is an evolutionary phenomenon. Founder effects arise when an isolated environment is invaded by only a few members of a species, which then multiply rapidly. In the extreme case, a single fertilized female might arrive in a new environment. It is a type of population bottleneck. (references) | ||
| Founder Members of the FA Premier League | The FA Premier League was founded in 1992, when the top division football clubs broke away from the Football League after securing a greatly improved TV rights deal with the then fledgling satellite television company Sky Television. These are the teams who were members of the inaugural season. (references) | ||
| Founder of Harbison Canyon | I am searching for information about my great grandfather, Robert Harbison. It is my understanding that he moved from Spencerville. Ohio to California to start a new life. (references) | ||
| Founder population | When a species invades a new area, the original, small population is called a founder population. The new area may be as small as a recently-erupted volcanic island, or as large as North America, invaded by species across Beringia during the last Ice age. (references) | ||
| Iron founder | A maker of iron castings. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Neolithic founder crops | The Neolithic founder crops (or 'primary domesticates') are the eight species of plant that were domesticated by early Holocene (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B) farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region of Southwest Asia. They consist of flax, three cereals and four pulses, and are the first known domesticated plants in the world. (references) | ||
| Type founder | One who casts or manufacture type. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: founder
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Founder breccia | Mining | See: collapse breccia. (references) | |
| Founder effect | Geology | "The establishment of a new population by a few original founders (in an extreme case, by a single fertilized female) which carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population" [Ernst Mayr, 1963]. The result is that a given allele, gene, chromosome, or part of a chromosome found in members of the population can be traced back to one ancestral individual. (references) | |
| Founder Effect | Health | The principle that when a small subgroup of a larger population establishes itself as a separate and isolated entity, its gene pool carries only a fraction of the genetic diversity of the parental population. This may result in an increased frequency of certain diseases in the subgroup, especially those diseases known to be autosomal recessive. (references) | |
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