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Found is a related term of erect.


In lang=en terms the difference between found and erect

is that found is to form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast while erect is to cause to stand up or out.

As verbs the difference between found and erect

is that found is (find) or found can be to begin building or found can be to melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting while erect is to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.

As a noun found

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

As an adjective erect is

upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

found

English

Etymology 1

see find.

Noun

  • Food and lodging, board.
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    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.
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    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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    erect

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
  • * Gibbon
  • Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column of ruins.
  • Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
  • (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  • * Keble
  • But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
  • (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • His piercing eyes, erect , appear to view / Superior worlds, and look all nature through.
  • Watchful; alert.
  • * Hooker
  • vigilant and erect attention of mind
  • (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
  • Antonyms

    * flaccid

    Derived terms

    * erection * semierect

    Verb

  • To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
  • to erect a house or a fort
  • To cause to stand up or out.
  • To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
  • to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
  • To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
  • * Daniel
  • that didst his state above his hopes erect
  • * Dryden
  • I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
  • To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
  • * Barrow
  • It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
  • (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 332:
  • In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.
  • To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • to erect conclusions.
  • * John Locke
  • Malebranche erects this proposition.
  • To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
  • * Hooker
  • to erect a new commonwealth

    Synonyms

    * build

    Anagrams

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