founder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Old French fondeur, from Latin fundātor, equivalent to found + -er.
Base: found
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: founders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: founders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foundering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: foundered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foundered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
pos: noun
examples: The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.
As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]
Young people love to idolize their predecessors. [Steve] Jobs was Silicon Valley's idol of choice for decades, but to the next generation of startup founders, his legacy feels about as old as Web 1.0.
Chris Printup, a founder of the streetwear brand Born X Raised, which became a fixture on the Los Angeles fashion scene, died on Wednesday morning at a hospital in Albuquerque. He was 42.
gloss: A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
pos: noun
examples: a founder population
the founder effect
The sickle cell mutation today can be found in five different haplotypes, leading to the conclusion that the mutation appeared independently five times in five different founders.
Among the Ashkenazi Jews in the positive group, 81 percent had one of the three founder mutations, suggesting that 23andMe's test could be helpful for them.
The gene mutation is likely to have come from a founder individual who lived at least 250 years ago, the paper published in the European Journal of Human Genetics said.
gloss: To flood with water and sink.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog—in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn;(...)
Amongst the battleships, things are rather different. Barham led a valiant charge, but suffered for it; she will founder under tow in the Thames estuary shallows, eventually being refloated and refitted after the war.
gloss: To fall; to stumble and go lame.
pos: verb
tags: especially
intransitive
gloss: To fail; to miscarry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: All his tricks founder.
The other ambitions, and much of Prescott's plan, foundered just south of Hatfield that October, when a GNER express derailed on a shattered rail […], plunging the railway into a crisis that led to private track owner Railtrack being put into administration.
gloss: To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like to founder our Ship.
I was amazed when we came among the breakers (which to me seemed large enough to founder our ship), to see with what wondrous dexterity they carried us through them, and ran their canoes on the top of one of those rolling waves […]
1932, Hart Crane, "From haunts of Proserpine" (Review of Green River: A Poem for Rafinesque, James Whaler
But still more disastrous was the storm which foundered his ship in Long Island Sound, swallowing within call of shore his fifty boxes of scientific equipment, his books, manuscripts and funds, the results of years of devoted labor.
gloss: To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: bellfounder
brassfounder
bronzefounder
cofounder
founder effect
founderer
founderitis
founder member
founder mode
founderous
foundership
foundress
ironfounder
letterfounder
nonfounder
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kantaisä
lang: Finnish
word: kantaäiti
lang: Polish
word: założyciel
lang: Polish
word: założycielka
lang: Russian
word: найдёныш
roman: najdjónyš
lang: Bulgarian
word: потапям
roman: potapjam
lang: Bulgarian
word: потопявам
roman: potopjavam
lang: Dutch
word: zinken
lang: Dutch
word: kelderen
lang: Dutch
word: vergaan
lang: Finnish
word: upota
lang: French
word: couler
lang: French
word: sombrer
lang: Galician
word: afundir
lang: Galician
word: ir abaixo
lang: German
word: sinken
lang: Greek
word: βυθίζομαι
roman: vythízomai
lang: Greek
word: καταποντίζομαι
roman: katapontízomai
lang: Greek
word: βουλιάζω
roman: vouliázo
lang: Japanese
word: 沈没する
roman: chinbotsu-suru
lang: Polish
word: tonąć
lang: Polish
word: utonąć
lang: Portuguese
word: afundir
lang: Portuguese
word: afundar
lang: Russian
word: затонуть
roman: zatonutʹ
lang: Spanish
word: hundirse
lang: Spanish
word: zozobrar
lang: Spanish
word: irse a pique
lang: Swedish
word: kantra