Find vs. Found
Findverb
(transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
Findverb
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
Findverb
(transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
Findverb
(transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
Findverb
(transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
Findverb
(transitive) To point out.
Findverb
(transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
Findverb
(transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
Findverb
To supply; to furnish.
Findverb
To provide for
Findverb
To determine or judge.
Findverb
To discover game.
Findnoun
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
Findnoun
The act of finding.
Findverb
To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
Findverb
To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
Findverb
To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
Findverb
To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
Findverb
To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
Findverb
To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
Findnoun
Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archæologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
Findnoun
a productive insight
Findnoun
the act of discovering something
Findverb
come upon, as if by accident; meet with;
Findverb
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;
Findverb
come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost;
Findverb
after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study;
Findverb
come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds;
Findverb
perceive or be contemporaneous with;
Findverb
get something or somebody for a specific purpose;
Findverb
make a discovery, make a new finding;
Findverb
make a discovery;
Findverb
obtain through effort or management;
Findverb
decide on and make a declaration about;
Findverb
receive a specified treatment (abstract);
Findverb
perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place;
Findverb
get or find back; recover the use of;
Findverb
succeed in reaching; arrive at;
Findverb
accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation;
Foundverb
simple past tense and past participle of find
Foundverb
(transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
Foundverb
(transitive) To begin building.
Foundverb
To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
Foundverb
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
Foundnoun
(obsolete) Food and lodging; board.
Found
imp. & p. p. of Find.
Foundverb
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
Foundverb
To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
Foundverb
To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.
Foundnoun
A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
Foundnoun
food and lodging provided in addition to money;
Foundverb
set up or found;
Foundverb
set up or lay the groundwork for;
Foundverb
use as a basis for; found on;
Foundadjective
come upon unexpectedly or after searching;
Foundverb
past and past participle of find
Foundverb
establish or originate (an institution or organization)
Foundverb
plan and begin the building of (a settlement)
Foundverb
base (something) on a particular principle, idea, or feeling
Foundverb
serve as a basis for
Foundverb
melt and mould (metal).
Foundverb
fuse (materials) to make glass.
Foundverb
make (an article) by melting and moulding metal.
Foundadjective
having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly.
Foundadjective
(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
Foundadjective
(of art) comprising or making use of found objects.
Foundadjective
(of poetry) formed by taking a piece of non-poetic text and reinterpreting its structure metrically.
Foundadjective
(of a ship) equipped
