Found vs. Gound
Found vs. Gound
Test how “Found” and “Gound” look in your own writing.
Found
Term Asimple past tense and past participle of find
(transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
(transitive) To begin building.
To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
(obsolete) Food and lodging; board.
imp. & p. p. of Find.
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
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.
Example: ‘I had else been perfect,Whole as the marble, founded as the rock.’; ‘A man that all his timeHath founded his good fortunes on your love.’; ‘It fell not, for it was founded on a rock.’;
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.
Example: ‘There they shall foundTheir government, and their great senate choose.’;
A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
food and lodging provided in addition to money;
Example: ‘they worked for $30 and found’;
set up or found;
Example: ‘She set up a literacy program’;
set up or lay the groundwork for;
Example: ‘establish a new department’;
use as a basis for; found on;
Example: ‘base a claim on some observation’;
come upon unexpectedly or after searching;
Example: ‘found art’; ‘the lost-and-found department’;
past and past participle of find
establish or originate (an institution or organization)
Example: ‘the monastery was founded in 1665’;
plan and begin the building of (a settlement)
Example: ‘William Penn founded Pennsylvania’;
base (something) on a particular principle, idea, or feeling
Example: ‘a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education’;
serve as a basis for
Example: ‘the company's fortunes are founded on its minerals business’;
melt and mould (metal).
fuse (materials) to make glass.
make (an article) by melting and moulding metal.
having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly.
(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
Example: ‘collages of found photos’;
(of art) comprising or making use of found objects.
(of poetry) formed by taking a piece of non-poetic text and reinterpreting its structure metrically.
(of a ship) equipped
Example: ‘the ship was well found and seaworthy’;
Gound
Term BMucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
Gummy matter in sore eyes.
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