Elevate vs Found - What's the difference?
elevate | found | Related terms |
To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
Food and lodging, board.
(find)
To begin building.
To start some type of organization or company.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
* Milton
In transitive terms the difference between elevate and found
is that elevate is to increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound while found is to form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.As an adjective elevate
is elevated; raised aloft.As a noun found is
food and lodging, board.elevate
English
Verb
(elevat)- to elevate the voice
- The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
Synonyms
* (raise) lift, raise * (promote) promote, exalt * (ennoble) ennoble, honour/honor, exalt * (elate) cheer up, elate * (increase the intensity of) increase, raise, turn up, up (informal)Antonyms
* (raise) drop, lower * (promote) demote * (elate) depress, sadden * (increase the intensity of) decrease, diminish, lower, reduce, turn downExternal links
* * ----found
English
Etymology 1
see find.Noun
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* found footage * lost and foundEtymology 2
From (etyl) founder (French: fonder), from (etyl) fundare.Verb
(en verb)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) establishAntonyms
* (to begin building) ruin * (to start organization) dissolve, abolishReferences
* Oxford Online Dictionary, found * WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton UniversityEtymology 3
From (etyl) fondre.Verb
(en verb)- Whereof to found their engines.