Founder vs Progenitor - What's the difference?
founder | progenitor |
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.
(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 161.
One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
* 1719 ,
To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
To fail; to miscarry.
* Shakespeare
A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
An individual from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation...) are descended.
(biology) An ancestral form of a species
(figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
(figuratively) Someone who originates something.
A founder.
As nouns the difference between founder and progenitor
is that founder is one who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows while progenitor is a forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.As a verb founder
is of a ship, to fill with water and sink.founder
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (one who founds) ruinerEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.
- All his tricks founder .
Usage notes
Frequently confused with flounder. Both may be applied to the same situation, the difference is the severity of the action: floundering'' (struggling to maintain position) comes first, followed by ''foundering (losing it by falling, sinking or failing).Anagrams
* ----progenitor
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Alternative forms
* progenitour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ''Abraham alias Ibrahim is the progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples.
- was the progenitor of the Internet.