found | (adjective) come upon unexpectedly or after searching | - |
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(noun) food and lodging provided in addition to money | - |
(verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, ground |
(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, institute, plant |
(verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, launch, set up |
foundation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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(noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
(noun) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body | Synonyms: foundation garment |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork |
(noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: grounding |
(noun) an institution supported by an endowment | - |
(noun) the basis on which something is grounded | - |
founder | (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, father, founding father |
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(noun) a worker who makes metal castings | - |
(noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: laminitis |
(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way |
(verb) sink below the surface | - |
(verb) stumble and nearly fall | - |
(verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop |
foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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founding | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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foundress | (noun) a woman founder | - |
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foundry | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: metalworks |
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fount | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fountain |
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(noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: case, face, font, typeface |
fountain | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fount |
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(noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: jet |
(noun) a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises | - |
(noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring |
fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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(noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |