Found vs Trover - What's the difference?
found | trover |
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
(legal) Taking possession of personal property which has been found.
(legal) A legal action brought to recover such property by its original owner.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 431:
As nouns the difference between found and trover
is that found is food and lodging, board or found can be a thin, single-cut file for comb-makers while trover is (legal) taking possession of personal property which has been found.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.found
English
Etymology 1
see find.Noun
- {{quote-book
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)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.
Etymology 4
Statistics
*trover
English
(wikipedia trover)Noun
(-)- The pocket-book was a late present from Mrs Western [...]. A prudent person [...] would not have offered more than a shilling, or perhaps sixpence, for it; nay, some perhaps would have given nothing, and left the fellow to his action of trover , which some learned serjeants may doubt whether he could, under these circumstances, have maintained.