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Meaning found meaning

What does found mean?
Definitions in simple English

found Verb

— To start some type of organization or company. They founded the company in 2003. — To begin building. — To melt.

found

— verb (= set up) set up or found She set up a literacy program — verb (= establish) set up or lay the groundwork for establish a new department — adjective come upon unexpectedly or after searching found art the lost-and-found department — noun food and lodging provided in addition to money they worked for $30 and found — verb (= base) use as a basis for; found on base a claim on some observation

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establish set up create cast base institute constitute erect start ground plant open form originate build begin turn up organize launch discovered obtained met initiate appear run across present organise mould weld underlie start up stand set seen seem reconstruct premise make install incorporate inaugurate gotten got give birth to founding find come up build up be present be located

Topics found topics

What do people use found to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
States Time Aspectual time

Start something
States Location Be at a place

Absent
Grammar General words Be

Exist
Grammar General words Be

Attribution

Conjugation found conjugation

How do you conjugate found?

found · verb

Examples found examples

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Simple sentences

I'm fixing the radio which I found on my way home.
We found the footprints in the sand.
I spoke to him in English and found I could make myself understood.
I found it something of a disappointment.
I found the glass empty.
The lie got him in trouble when his boss found out the truth.
No algorithm that can solve this problem in polynomial time has been found yet.
I found no job today.
We found out where he lives.
I found him the book.
I found the book boring.
I found my bicycle gone.
I found his house easily.
I found a solution, but I found it so fast that it can't be the right solution.
You found me where no one else was looking.
My parents would repudiate my brother if they ever found out he was gay.
I found the very thing you had been looking for.
Where was it that you found this key?
I found that restaurant by accident.
I found the box empty.
We found the stolen bag in this bush.
We found him alive.
We found a secret door into the building.
I found, to my surprise, that she was dead.
As I entered a tearoom, I found two young men watching a wrestling match on television.
We found that we had lost our way.
We found the front door locked.
We found a secret passage into the building.
When I got home, I found I had lost my wallet.

Movie subtitles

We found out about it..
So the information that you found Zero was a lie!
Have you found her?!
From 1 500, anyone in China found building a ship with more than two masts was liable to the death penalty.
And deep in the ground Joseph found shining plates of gold!
He found a brand-new book about Jesus Christ!
The Mormons talked about people who were miserable like us, but they all found someplace to go.
Thank goodness I found you.
And we hadn't even found a planet outside our own solar system.
And since then, they've found hundreds more.
Most of the worlds we've found are gas giants, which probably couldn't support life.
We found a few rocky planets with hard surfaces, but they're many times more massive than Earth and contain the most hostile environments you could ever imagine.
To make sure Kepler's truly found a planet, scientists are using one of the largest Earth-based telescopes for confirmation.
Bob Ballard found a thriving ecosystem where there was no sunlight.
It was published in three thick volumes. A copy can be found at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen.
Early in 1944 something happened that we found very special.
I found a way to contact Abd el-Kader.
I found a way to contact Adbelkader.
She worked as a nurse, was radiantly happy, had found her place in society.
I found more support for Algerians in Paris!
I even found manuscripts that belonged to Emir Abdelkader.
Oh, looky who I found.
After we found Maya.
She looked the exact same when I found her.
Have you found it? Who wants to talk about what they found?
I found them in the garbage.
If my brother found out, he'd freak. And repays me by calling me a liar.
When I found out about Johnny, my first plan was to walk up to him and punch him in the nose.
We found out that they got this kid. He's got a huge bladder.
But just when it looked like bud's team had the game in the bag, Frankie found a way to change the rules of the to change the rules of the game.
And when I found out it was Jackson, I thought it was a great twist.
We found Johnny's shirt.
I found some deer trails I scouted earlier.
I found this really weird-looking tree.
I found the last one.
Yes. Didn't you say the reason why you bought the building was because someone said she found the rooftop there most comfortable?
Are you here to see me because you found out I was here?
When the body of the deceased Lee Seo Rim was found.
When the corpse of the previous Magistrate's daughter was found.

News and current affairs

On the contrary, by and large it was the critics, not the supporters, of these measures who found themselves in trouble.
Osama bin-Laden was finally found and killed by US Special Forces in the suburbs of Islamabad.
His books - which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy - were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity.
He never found his way back, and when confronted with the New Politics of primaries and populism, he became dispirited when he could not cope with this new style.
Iran proclaims that its programs are for peaceful generation of nuclear energy, but inspectors have already found traces of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium.
If compensation for wrongs to the Palestinians was to be the guiding principle, there were always better ways of going about it than to found a rickety, poverty-ridden new country dependent on foreign aid.
Having written a book about the hijacking of executive power in the United States in the Bush years, I found myself, in researching new developments, stumbling upon conversations online that embrace narratives of behind-the-scenes manipulation.
They found the arctic ice impenetrable, and soon gave up their quest.
Inter-state combat may still occur where strategic front lines can be found, such as Israel's border with Syria, India's border with Pakistan, and the border dividing the two Koreas.
Generals Atanase Stanculescu and Mihai Chitac were found guilty of ordering the killings of dozens of innocent people in Timisoara in 1989.
They found no remedy, in either Uganda or Germany, for the violation of rights that, according to the Committee, they possess under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Germany is a signatory.
He was a master at converting the complicated into the simple; and, rather than being paralyzed by complexity, he found new ways to deconstruct and overcome it.
Until the surviving bomber was found, Boston was reduced to a ghost town.
Following Ethiopia's intervention, the Islamists found themselves out of power.
His body was found in a hotel toilet in the city of Kaduna with the remains of a parcel bomb after an explosion that no one heard.
The best-known examples are the magnets that drive the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines found in most hospitals.
Shortly thereafter, researchers in the United States found a related material that superconducts above the temperature at which air liquefies.
Moreover, though international studies of more than 70,000 people have found over 20 other genes linked to Alzheimer's, their impact is minimal.
And even as the Cold War raged, leaders found ways to cooperate on arms control and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Developing countries must use their limited resources in the most effective way, and there is no question where the most attractive opportunities in Africa are to be found.
I fear it is because the US found itself denied its primacy in setting global policy on Iran.

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