found
found 英 [faʊnd] 美 [faʊnd]
vt. 创立，建立；创办 v. 找到（find的过去分词）
进行时:founding 过去式:founded 过去分词:founded 第三人称单数:founds 名词复数:founds
- To found something is like laying a "foundation" for a building — note the similarity? But instead of a building, you might found a business or a charity, where you establish the groundwork upon which it can grow.
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- vt. 创立，建立；创办
- v. 找到（find的过去分词）
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1. He found her lost ring .
他找到了她那遗失的戒指。
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2. found a club/company
创办俱乐部╱公司
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3. The town was founded in 1790.
这座城镇是 1790 年建立的。
- found (adj.) "discovered," late 14c., past-participle adjective from find (v.). Expression and found attached to the wages or charges in old advertisements for job openings, traveling berths, etc., indicates that meals are provided. It comes from the expression to find one's self "to provide for one's self." "When a laborer engages to provide himself with victuals, he is said to find himself, or to receive day wages" [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]. Hence, so much and found for "wages + meals provided."
- found (v.1) "lay the basis of, establish," late 13c., from Old French fonder "found, establish; set, place; fashion, make" (12c.), from Latin fundare "to lay the bottom or foundation" of something, from fundus "bottom, foundation" (see fund (n.)). Related: Founded; founding. Phrase founding fathers with reference to the creators of the American republic is attested from 1916.
- found (v.2) "to cast metal," late 14c., originally "to mix, mingle," from Old French fondre "pour out, melt, smelt" (12c.), from Latin fundere (past participle fusus) "to melt, cast, pour out," from nasalized form of PIE root *gheu- "to pour." Meaning "to cast metal" is from 1560s. Related: Founded; founding.
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