found

Definitions of found in various dictionaries:

noun - food and lodging provided in addition to money

verb - set up or found

verb - set up or lay the groundwork for

verb - use as a basis for

verb - come upon, as if by accident

verb - discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of

verb - come upon after searching

verb - establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

verb - come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

verb - perceive or be contemporaneous with

verb - get something or somebody for a specific purpose

verb - make a discovery, make a new finding

verb - make a discovery

verb - obtain through effort or management

verb - decide on and make a declaration about

verb - receive a specified treatment (abstract)

verb - perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

verb - get or find back

verb - succeed in reaching

verb - accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

adj - come upon unexpectedly or after searching

To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence: The college was founded in 1872.

The central meaning shared by these verb s is “to bring something into existence and set it in operation”: founded a colony; created a trust fund; establishing an advertising agency; instituted an annual ball to benefit the homeless; organizing the metal-trading division of a bank.

To melt (metal) and pour into a mold.

To make (objects) by pouring molten material into a mold.