Found vs. Foundation

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

Foundationnoun

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

Foundationnoun

That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.

Foundationnoun

(figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.

Foundationnoun

(card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.

Foundationnoun

(architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

Foundationnoun

A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

Foundationnoun

That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.

Foundationnoun

(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.

Foundationnoun

A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

Foundationnoun

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

Foundationnoun

That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.

Foundationnoun

The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

Foundationnoun

A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

Foundationnoun

That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity; as, the Ford Foundation.

Foundationnoun

the basis on which something is grounded;

Foundationnoun

an institution supported by an endowment

Foundationnoun

the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;

Foundationnoun

lowest support of a structure;

Foundationnoun

education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge;

Foundationnoun

a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body

Foundationnoun

the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

Foundationnoun

the lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level

Foundationnoun

a coloured cream, powder, or liquid used as a base to even out facial skin tone before applying other cosmetics

Foundationnoun

an underlying basis or principle

Foundationnoun

justification or reason

Foundationnoun

the action of establishing an institution or organization

Foundationnoun

an institution established with an endowment, for example a research body or charity