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Definitions: Founder |
FounderNoun1. Inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse. 2. A person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country". 3. A worker who makes metal castings. Verb1. Fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered". 2. Sink below the surface. 3. Break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice". 4. Stumble and nearly fall; of horses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "founder" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A ship is said to founder when she sinks at sea, more or less on an even keel, through the flooding of the hull, e. g. as a result of heavy weather damage, striking a rock etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Responsible person in a foundry company or shop. Also most people working in a foundry. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: FounderSynonyms: beginner (n), father (n), founding father (n), laminitis (n), break (v), cave in (v), collapse (v), fall flat (v), fall in (v), fall through (v), flop (v), give (v), give way (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: melter (chemical industry, metallurgy). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on. |
Plunge | Get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow. |
Producer | Noun: producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover; maker; (agent); prime mover. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | From this moment, no matter what we do, Titanic will founder. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) | |
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 | Sidney Farber, M.D. - founder of Children's Hospital Cancer Research Foundation in the 1950's and 1960's. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Ferdinand Hassler, founder and first Superintendent of the Coast Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Ernest Lester Jones Memorial Commemorating his role as Director of C&GS and a founder of the American Legion Plaque presented to C&GS for mounting on bridge of vessel E. LESTER JONES. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Student volunteers from the United Anglers work in the creek to clear it of debris. The students have worked at Adobe Creek, planting vegetation, cleaning the stream and working to restore water flow to the creek for close to 15 years. The students are led by Tom Furrer their high school science teacher and the founder of United Anglers of Casa Grande High School. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography study seafloor material acquired off the Aleutian Islands. It is believed that Harris B. Stewart, future Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and founder of NOAA' s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories is the individual on the left. In: August Gribbin, 1968, "Sea Horizons," p. 65. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Dr. Emil Rathenau, founder of the German General Electric Co.;1883;{28.028/16}. |
 | "The Founder of Modern Military Medicine." / [Frederic Taubes]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Francois Joseph Gall M.D. : Founder of the Doctrine of the Physiology of the Brain / Rubidge Delint. J. Alais sculpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Founder of the Holy Cross Nursing Sisters. She was supervisor of the eighty Holy Cross Sisters who served as military nurses during the Civil War. Credit: NAVY. |  | Sutro tunnel. Sutro tunnel and mule train. Adolph Sutro, founder of the Sutro tunnel. Sutro from the tunnel. Sutro mansion and machine shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Robert Schumann | Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder. |
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Business | In November gunmen using automatic rifles opened fire on the vehicle of Jesus Blancornelas, founder and editor of Zeta, a Tijuana weekly. (references) | |
They are 15 founder members that spread over the U.S. and the Middle East. Currently OPSTEC has only one campus in Lahore but have plans for future expansion. (references) | ||
Eighteen well-known companies, including Legend Computer Group, Founder Group, China National Computer Software Service and Technology Corporation and a Microsoft joint venture, support the China Software Alliance (CSA, or Zhongguo Ruanjian Lianmei) that seeks to address software piracy. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Singapore | Soon thereafter, the founder and sponsor of the site shut it down, citing fatigue after 7 years on the job. (references) |
Niger | The Minister of Interior took legal action against the founder of the weekly, the managing editor, and a reporter. (references) | |
Tonga | Similarly, the TBC does not allow the Mormon Church to discuss its founder, Joseph Smith, or the Book of Mormon by name. (references) | |
Economic History | Finland | The nationality of the founder is thus irrelevant. (references) |
Estonia | Meri chose 32-year old historian and Christian Democratic Party founder Mart Laar as prime minister. (references) | |
Afghanistan | In 1747, Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founder of what is known today as Afghanistan, established his rule. (references) | |
Human Rights | Slovak Republic | The founder and chairman of the political party SMER, Robert Fico, also made a similar allegation. (references) |
Yemen | The country's first Minister of State for Human Rights, Dr. Wahibah Fare'e, is a prominent women's rights activist and the founder of Queen Arwa University. (references) | |
Brazil | In April civil police killed Jose Rafael do Nascimento, the founder and leader of the Movement of Rural Workers (MTR). Nascimento's wife claimed that plainclothes policemen killed her husband in an ambush. (references) | |
Minorities | Poland | In Poznan the theater founder was refused service in a restaurant in what she perceived to be a racially motivated incident. (references) |
Pakistan | Backed by crowds of 100 to 200 persons, the mullahs purportedly denounce Ahmadis and their founder, a situation that sometimes leads to violence. (references) | |
Political Economy | Turkey | But, as the party of Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it remains a potent political force in Turkish politics. (references) |
Political Rights | Saint Lucia | The SLP capitalized on the failure of the opposition forces to unite in a national coalition due to a leadership struggle between Odlum, and Sir John Compton, founder of the UWP and a former Prime Minister. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nigeria | According to Titi Abubakar, the founder of WOTCLEF, many trafficking victims were involved in commercial sex, begging, menial jobs, or forced marriages. (references) |
Colombia | Prosecutors have outstanding warrants for the arrest of paramilitary members Temilda Rosa Martinez and Eduardo Manrique Morales for the 1999 killing of Julio Alfonso Poveda, a CUT founder. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MONSIGNOR, n. A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages. |
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| "Founder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.61% of the time. "Founder" is used about 1,239 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.61% | 1,197 | 6,466 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.06% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,239 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| China | Shanghai Founder Yanzhong Sci & Tech. | Hong Kong | Founder (Hong Kong) Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "founder": Bell founder ♦ Chest founder ♦ Founder Effect ♦ founder of a school ♦ Iron founder ♦ type founder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "founder": founder-architect, founder-chairman, founder-conductor, founder-councillor, founder-director, Founder-editor, founder-member, founder-members, founder-president, founder-secretary, founder-sponsor. | |
Ending with "founder": co-founder, iron-founder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "founder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fundosem (sink, submerge, subside), fonditor, themelues (erector, father, patriarch, promoter), shkrirës (defroster), rrëzohet (fall in, fall to pieces, lop), përmbysem (capsize, fall away, keel over, topple, turn over), mbytet (sink, wreck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منشئ, مؤسس (based, established, founded, instituted, patriarch, promoter, set up), غرق (deluge, dip, drown, drowning, eject, go under, grub, relapse, shipwright, sink, sinking, submergence, swamp, wreck), سباك المعادن, المنشئ (originator), المؤسس, إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | създател (artificer, author, constitutor, creator, former, generator, inventor, maker, molder, moulder, originator), учредител (constitutor), родоначалник (father, patriarch, progenitor, stirps), основател (constitutor, patriarch, promoter), леяр (caster, molder, moulder), ламинит, проваляне (breakdown, crash, damnation, defeat, downfall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 創辦人 , 創立者 , 创建者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ztroskotat (be wrecked, bite, cast away, cave in, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, go by the board, ground, miscarry, shipwreck, wreck), zhroutit se (cave in, collapse, crack up, go to pieces), zakladatel (originator, promoter), slévaè (molder, moulder), potopit se, klopýtnout (stumble, trip, tumble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forfangenhed (laminitis), synke (dive, sink), stoeberitekniker (foundryman), stoeberimand (foundryman), stoeberiarbejder (caster, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), stoeber (caster, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), smelter (caster, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), skyrer (furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), ovnpasser (furnace-man, heats attendant, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), gå ned (sink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zinken (degenerate, descend, dive, get off, go down, sink), smelter (furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), ovenstoker (furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), ondergaan (abide, bear, endure, go down, perish, put up with, set, suffer), klauwbevangenheid (laminitis), hoefbevangenheid (laminitis), gieterijbedrijfsleider (foundryman), gieter (watering-can). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valaja (foundryman), upota (go down, sink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fondateur, sombrer, fondeur (foundryman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gründer (floater, floaters, founders, originator), untergehen (be destroyed, become enslaved, become run-down, come to an end, decline, go down, go under, lose, perish, set, sink, vanish), sinken (come down, decline, descend, diminish, droop, drop, fall, go down, sag, sink, slump, subside, wane), gießer (molder), begründer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταποντίζομαι (sink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מיס" (establisher), מכו ן (establisher, machinist, mechanic), יוצק, ל"תמוטט (break down, collapse, come down, go to pieces, topple), ל"כשל (come to grief, dud, fail, fall, fall over, fall through, fizzle out, miscarry, miss fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alapító (builder, establishing, floater, parent, starter), adományozó (constituent, donor, giver), patagyulladás, olvasztómunkás (smelter), olvasztár (smelter), mellkasgyulladás, öntőmunkás (smelter), öntő-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengasas, pendiri (organiser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fonditore (caster, melter), fondatore (floater, floaters, founding), affondare (embed, engulf, go under, sink, stick in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鼻祖 (introducer, originator), 草分け (originator, pathfinder, pioneer, trailblazer), 開祖 (apostle, inventor, originator), 設立者 , "みの親 (creator, one's true parents), 創設者 , 創立者 (organizer), 創業者 (promoter), 創建者 , 元祖 (inventor, originator, pioneer), 始祖 (originator, pioneer), 太祖 (emperor, progenitor), 初代 (first generation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいそ (emperor, progenitor), が"そ (inventor, originator, pioneer), くさわけ (originator, pathfinder, pioneer, trailblazer), そうぎょうしゃ (promoter), そうせつしゃ, そうりつしゃ (organizer), そうけ"しゃ, しょ い (first generation), しそ (beefsteak plant, old term for Buddhist priesthood and the common people, originator, perilla, pioneer), びそ (introducer, originator), うみのおや (creator, one's true parents), せつりつしゃ, かいそ (apostle, breaking up an organization, inventor, originator, reorganization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 창시자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), tilgeyr (pitcher, pourer, projector, slinger), sinkeil (scupper, sink, sinking), kiaddeyder (designer, modeller, promoter), goll fo (get under, go under, set, submerge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ounderfay ir a pique (sink), fundidor (foundryman, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), afundar-se (sink, slump). (various references) fondator (founding, raiser), fãuritor (architect, contriver, deviser), şchiopãta (cripple, halt, hobble, limp, stump), cãdea (appear, arrive, climb down, collapse, come down, drop, err, fail, fall, fall through, go under, have a fall, land, pitch, pluck, redound, ruin, sin, sink, slip down, slough away, slough off, strip, vote down), creator (architect, author, constructive, creative, creator, father, fitter, original, originator), ctitor (benefactor), da greş (draw a blank), eşua (abort, beach, break down, come down, drop through, fail, fall, ground, miscarry, pile up, run aground, run ashore, strand), întemeietor (father, raiser), naufragia (be cast away, wreck), ziditor (aker, builder, constructor, creator), scufunda (dip, dive, drown, engulf, run down, send to the bottom, sink, soak, submerge, subside, swamp, whelm), se împiedica (fall over, stub one's foot on, stumble, trip), se lãsa (close, fall, forswear, lay aside, subside), se poticni (fall, hobble, stumble, tumble), se prãbuşi (come down with a run, crash, crumble, curl up, fall, fall drop through, fall in, fall to the ground, go to pieces, ruin, subside, wreck), se scufunda (dive, duck, go down, go to the bottom, go under, ground, sink), topitor (smelter), turnãtor (caster, denunciator, grass, molder, moulder, sneak, telltale), inflamaţie la piciorul unui cal. (various references) учредитель (constitutor, statutor), основатель (constitutor, erector, founding father, founding fathers), ламинит, литейщик (caster, foundry hand, molder, moulder). (various references) utemeljitelj, srušiti se (collapse, fall down, fall over, keel over), potonuti (go down, sink), osnivač (father, originator), livac (smelter). (various references) irse a pique (sink), fundidor (caster, foundryman, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teaser, teazer), fundador (builder, promoter). (various references) gjutare (caster), grundare (founders, founding father). (various references) ผู้ก่อตั้ง (father), สะ"ุ" (stub), ทำให้จม, ล้มลงกับพื้น, จมลง (lower, sag, sag down). (various references) yıkılmak (break down, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, crack up, crumble, drop down, fall, fall down, fall over, fall to pieces, go to pieces, go to ruin, shipwreck, tumble, tumble down, wither away), saplanıp kalmak (stick), sakatlanmak, kurucu (builder, constituent, constitutive, creator, erector, father, floater, foundress, framer, incorporator, promoter), dökümcü (die sinker, metal worker, smelter), boşa çıkmak (be blighted, come to naught, come to nothing, come to nought, fail, fizzle, fizzle out, go by the board, puncture), batmak (be in carey street, be on the wane, be swamped with, belly up, break, burst up, cave, crash, decline, dip, fail, go bankrupt, go down, go over the cliff, go to rack and ruin, go under, gravitate, hang, plunge, set, sink, slide into, submerge, swim like a brick, wane), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside). (various references) засновник (erector, progenitor, promoter), закривіти, загрузнути (welter), плавильник. (various references) hội viên sáng lập (founder-member). (various references) ffwndro (become confused, boggle), sylfaenydd, sylfaenwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conditor, conditores, conditorum, creator, creatori, creatoris, fundator, fundus, satorem. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | fondrer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 6, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Exelipen fushthr apo puroV exelipen moliboV eiV kenon argurokopoV argurokopei ponhria autwn ouk etakh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Defecit sufflatorium in igne consumptum est plumbum frustra conflavit conflator malitiae enim eorum non sunt consumptae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Failede the meltende vessel, in fyr wastid is the led, in veyn meltide togidere the yeetere; forsothe the malices of them ben not wastid. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 6, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | Ang mga hasohasan mitayhop sa hilabihan gayud; ang tingga giut-ut sa kalayo: kawang lamang ang pagtunaw sa pag-ulay; kay ang dautan wala man mangaluka. |
| Croatian | Mijeh sopæe da bi vatra proždrla olovo, zalud se ljevaè trudi da ga rastopi: šljaka se ne da izluèiti." |
| Danish | Bælgen blæser, af Ilden kommer kun Bly. Al Smelten er spildt, de onde udskilles ej. |
| Dutch | De blaasbalg is verbrand, het lood is van het vuur verteerd; te vergeefs heeft de smelter zo vlijtiglijk gesmolten, dewijl de bozen niet afgetrokken zijn. |
| Finnish | Palkeet puhkuvat, tulesta lähtee vain lyijyä. Turhaan on sulatettu ja sulatettu: pahat eivät ole erottuneet. |
| French | Le soufflet est brûlant, Le plomb est consumé par le feu; C`est en vain qu`on épure, Les scories ne se détachent pas. |
| German | Der Blasebalg ist verbrannt, das Blei verschwindet; das Schmelzen ist umsonst, denn das Böse ist nicht davon geschieden. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Peleburan sudah sangat panas, tapi kotoran logam tak mau juga meleleh dan hilang. Percuma umat-Ku terus-menerus diuji untuk dimurnikan, sebab orang-orangnya yang jahat tidak disingkirkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa hembusan itu hanguslah tetapi dari pada api keluar timah juga; cuma-cuma dihancurkan dia akan dibersihkan pula; tak boleh dijauhkan sanganya. |
| Italian | Il mantice soffia con forza, il piombo è consumato dal fuoco; invano si vuol raffinarlo a ogni costo, le scorie non si separano. |
| Maori | Kei te kaka te hau o te pupuhi ahi; kua pau te mata i te ahi, maumau whakarewa noa te kaitahi para: kahore nei hoki te hunga kino kia unuhia atu. |
| Norwegian | Blåsebelgen er opbrent av ilden, blyet er fortært; forgjeves har de smeltet og smeltet, og de onde er ikke skilt ut. |
| Portuguese | Já o fole se queimou; o chumbo se consumiu com o fogo; debalde continuam a fundição, pois os maus não são arrancados. |
| Rumanian | Foalele ard, plumbul este topit de foc; degeaba curqyesc, cqci zgura nu se deslipewte.`` |
| Russian | тБЪ"ХЧБМШОЩК НЕИ П'ЗПТЕМ, УЧЙОЕ" ЙУФМЕМ ПФ ПЗОС: МБЧЙМШЭЙЛ МБЧЙМ ОБ ТБУОП, Й'П ЪМЩЕ ОЕ ПФ"ЕМЙМЙУШ; |
| Spanish | El fuelle sopla, y el plomo es consumido por el fuego. En vano se esfuerza el fundidor, pues los malos no se desprenden. |
| Swedish | Blåsbälgen pustar, men ur elden kommer allenast bly fram; allt luttrande är förgäves, slagget biiver ändå icke frånskilt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "founder": foundered, foundering, founders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "founder": cofounder, confounder, dumbfounder, profounder, typefounder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "founder": cofounders, confounders, dumbfoundered, dumbfoundering, dumbfounders, typefounders. (additional references) | |
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"Founder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: counder, fauder, faunder, feruntur, foiunder, Fougner, foundary, founde, foundle, Foundrax, foune, Frolunda, funder, gounder, hounder, Pfrunder, tounder, zounder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "founder" (pronounced fou"nder) |
| 5 | f ou" n d er | cofounder. |
| 4 | -ou" n d er | bounder, flounder, pounder, rounder, sounder. |
| 3 | -n d er | Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, bender, binder, blander, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, commander, Condor, contender, coriander, cylinder, defender, Ender, engender, extender, Fender, finder, fonder, gander, gender, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, lender, mainlander, meander, minder, offender, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, responder, salamander, sander, sender, Sidewinder, slander, slender, Spender, splendor, squander, Stander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, vendor, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: refound. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: enduro, fonder, fondue, refund, undoer. | |
-2 letters: drone, fondu, found, frond, nuder, redon, rouen, round, under, unfed, uredo. | |
-3 letters: doer, done, dore, dour, dune, dure, durn, duro, euro, fend, feod, fern, feud, fond, ford, fore, four, froe, fund, nerd, node, nude, nurd, redo, rend, rode, roue, rude, rued, rune, unde, undo. | |
-4 letters: den, doe, don. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: flounder, fortuned, founders, frondeur, frounced, overfund, refounds, unfolder, unforced, unforged, unforked, unformed, unroofed. | |
+2 letters: cofounder, flounders, foundered, foundries, frondeurs, overfunds, refounded, underflow, underfoot, unfolders, unfreedom, unfrocked, uniformed, wonderful. | |
+3 letters: cofounders, configured, confounder, floundered, foreground, foundering, furanoside, outfrowned, overfunded, profounder, refounding, undeformed, undercroft, underflows, underproof, unenforced, unforested, unfreedoms, uninformed, unreformed. | |
+4 letters: confounders, countrified, countryfied, dumbfounder, floundering, fluorinated, foregrounds, forejudging, fourdrinier, furanosides, hundredfold, overfunding, profoundest, typefounder, unconfirmed, undercrofts, unfortified, unperformed, unprofessed, wonderfully. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6F 75 6E 64 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. --- ..- -. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F o u n d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006F 0075 006E 0064 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40818780707184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation; Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian; Arabies, arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic; Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian; Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese; Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech; Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish; Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch; Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски ези |
