 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
founding
noun: the act of starting something for the first time;
introducing something new; "she looked forward to her
initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new
scientific society"; "he regards the fork as a modern
introduction" [syn: {initiation}, {foundation}, {institution},
{origination}, {creation}, {innovation}, {introduction},
{instauration}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Founding}.] [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to
cast. ''Whereof to found their engines.'' --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Founding}.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See
1st {Bottom}, and cf. {Founder}, verb (used without an object), {Fund}.]
1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something
solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis,
literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak.
A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak.
It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt.
vii. 25.
2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or
building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to
begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to
found a family.
There they shall found
Their government, and their great senate choose.
--Milton.
Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See
{Predicate}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Founding \Found"ing\, noun
The art of smelting and casting metals.
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