Founds vs Funding - What's the difference?

founds | funding |


As verbs the difference between founds and funding

is that founds is (found) while funding is .

As a noun funding is

the action of the verb.

founds

English

Verb

(head)
  • (found)

    • found

    English

    Etymology 1

    see find.

    Noun

  • Food and lodging, board.
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    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 . …”}}
    Related terms
    * foundation * founder

    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.
    Related terms
    * foundry

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms

    funding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia funding)
  • The action of the verb .
  • Money provided as funds.
    • The council is providing funding to the church to repair the roof.
  • * 2013 , Brian Nelson, Law and Ethics in Global Business
    • Second, a bank can commit to provide a maximum amount of money (e.g., $US1,000,000) in one or more fundings over a set period of time (e.g., one year). Such credit facilities are called “lines of credit.”