Found vs Exist - What's the difference?
found | exist |
Food and lodging, board.
(find)
To begin building.
To start some type of organization or company.
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, 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
to be; have existence; have being or reality
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As verbs the difference between found and exist
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 exist is to be; have existence; have being or reality.As a noun found
is food and lodging, board or found can be a thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.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
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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.
Etymology 4
Statistics
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English
Verb
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