Colic vs Founder - What's the difference?
colic | founder |
(pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel related problems).
A medicinal plant used to relieve one of such symptoms.
Relating to the colon; colonic.
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.
(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 161.
One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
* 1719 ,
To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
To fail; to miscarry.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between colic and founder
is that colic is severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel related problems) while founder is one who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.As an adjective colic
is relating to the colon; colonic.As a verb founder is
of a ship, to fill with water and sink.colic
English
(wikipedia colic)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* colickyAdjective
(-)founder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (one who founds) ruinerEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.
- All his tricks founder .