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Found vs Presented - What's the difference?

found | presented |

As verbs the difference between found and presented

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 presented is (present).

As a noun found

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

As an adjective presented is

(mathematics|of a group) having a specified presentation, or a presentation with specified properties.

found

English

Etymology 1

see find.

Noun

  • Food and lodging, board.
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    , 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.
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  • , 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

    *

    presented

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mathematics, of a group) Having a specified presentation, or a presentation with specified properties.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (present)