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Founder

//ˈfaʊn.dɚ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

    "The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg."

  2. 2
    The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

    "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."

  3. 3
    A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
  4. 4
    A Founding Father. US, in-plural, often

    "As the Founders saw it, the great driver of freedom was knowledge."

  5. 5
    a person who founds or establishes some institution wordnet
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  1. 6
    A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).

    "a founder population"

  2. 7
    One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

    "a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types"

  3. 8
    a worker who makes metal castings wordnet
  4. 9
    inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To flood with water and sink. intransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    stumble and nearly fall wordnet
  3. 3
    To fall; to stumble and go lame. especially, intransitive
  4. 4
    break down, literally or metaphorically wordnet
  5. 5
    To fail; to miscarry. intransitive

    "All his tricks founder."

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  1. 6
    sink below the surface wordnet
  2. 7
    To cause to flood and sink, as a ship. archaic, transitive

    "We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like to founder our Ship."

  3. 8
    fail utterly; collapse wordnet
  4. 9
    To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French fondeur, from Latin fundātor, equivalent to found + -er.

Etymology 2

From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”).

Etymology 3

From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”).

Etymology 4

From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”).

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