found
/faʊnd/ · verb
Meaning
- To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- To point out.
- Food and lodging; board.
- To start (an institution or organization).
- 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.
- A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
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