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Devise is a related term of found.


As verbs the difference between devise and found

is that devise is while found is (find) or found can be to begin building or found can be to melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.

As a noun found is

food and lodging, board or found can be a thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

devise

English

(wikipedia devise)

Verb

(devis)
  • To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
  • to devise''' an argument; to '''devise a machine, or a new system of writing
  • * Bancroft
  • devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
  • *
  • Thus, the task of the linguist devising' a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to '''devise a ''finite'' set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an ''infinite set of well-formed sentences.
  • To leave (property) in a will.
  • (archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • I thought, devised , and Pallas heard my prayer.
  • (archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
  • * Spenser
  • For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise .
  • (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
  • (Spenser)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of leaving real property in a will.
  • Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
  • * Bancroft
  • Fines upon devises were still exacted.
  • The real property left in such a will.
  • See also

    * device * devising

    Anagrams

    * ----

    found

    English

    Etymology 1

    see find.

    Noun

  • Food and lodging, board.
  • {{quote-book
    , year=1872 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=James De Mille , title=The Cryptogram , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=I'll only give you the usual payment--say five hundred dollars a year, and found'." / "And--what?" / "' Found --that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (find)
  • Derived terms
    * found footage * lost and found

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) founder (French: fonder), from (etyl) fundare.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To begin building.
  • To start some type of organization or company.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded . …”}}

    Synonyms

    * (to start organization) establish

    Antonyms

    * (to begin building) ruin * (to start organization) dissolve, abolish

    References

    * Oxford Online Dictionary, found * WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) fondre.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
  • To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
  • * Milton
  • Whereof to found their engines.

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
  • Statistics

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