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Eureka vs Found - What's the difference?

eureka | found |

As a proper noun eureka

is a city in northern california.

As a noun found is

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

As a verb found is

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

eureka

English

Interjection

(wikipedia eureka) (en interjection)
  • An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
  • * 1821': '''Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, ''Don Juan, 1821
  • * 1970': A page is turned - '''eureka , a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in ''The Last of England, 1970
    • Derived terms
    * eureka effect * eureka moment

    See also

    * aha moment * epiphany ----

    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 . …”}}
    Related terms
    * foundation * founder

    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.
    Related terms
    * foundry

    Etymology 4

    Noun

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

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms