Founds vs Founding - What's the difference?
founds | founding |
(found)
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
The action of the verb to found ; the establishment of something.
* 2005 , Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism
Who or that founds or found.
As verbs the difference between founds and founding
is that founds is (found) while founding is .As a noun founding is
the action of the verb to found ; the establishment of something.As a adjective founding is
who or that founds or found.founds
English
Verb
(head)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
*founding
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the founding of the republic
- Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?
Adjective
(head)- The founding fathers of our country.