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found meaning

EN[fɑʊnd] [-aʊnd]
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  • Found may refer to:
  • Found Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer based in Ontario, Canada
  • Found (album), a 2009 album by American pop/rock band Push Play
  • Found (band), an experimental pop band from Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Found (film), a 2012 horror film
  • Found (novel), a 2008 young adult science fiction novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Found object, art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects or products that are not normally considered art
  • Found (Rossetti), an unfinished oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Definition of found in English Dictionary

  • NounPLfounds
    1. Food and lodging, board.
      1. I'll only give you the usual payment--say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And--what?" / "Found--that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also.
    2. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
    3. VerbSGfoundsPRfoundingPT, PPfounded
      1. simple past tense and past participle of find.
        1. To begin building.
          1. To start some type of organization or company.
            1. “… 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. …”
          2. (transitive) To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
            1. (transitive) To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
            2. More Examples
              1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
                • I tried to turn away and found myself winking some more at the most innocuous wedding-goer I could find: Francine's great-aunt in the front row.
                • 58% of the hyponatremic patients were found to be symptomatic.
                • Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.
              2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
                • Among the infiltrating inflammatory cells, spindle-shaped, histiocytoid or myoid tumor cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm were found.
                • Two days prior to the consultation, an abdominal radiograph was done because the patient hadn't stooled in a week. No signs of obstruction and no abnormal accumulations of stool were found.
                • Likewise, 24.2% of the recombinants contained genetic contributions from the A2 subsubtype, though no pure A2 strains were found.
            • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
              1. Nouns
                • Nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals
                  • Countable nouns
                  • Verbs
                    • Verb forms
                      • Irregular verb forms
                        • Irregular past participles
                          • Irregular simple past forms
                          • Participles
                            • Past participles
                            • Verb simple past forms
                            • Transitive verbs
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                          Meaning of found for the defined word.

                          Grammatically, this word "found" is a noun, more specifically, a nouns with unknown or uncertain plural and a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form and a transitive verb.
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