different between devise vs found

English

Etymology

From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devis?, from Latin d?vis?, frequentative of d?vid?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??va?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z
• Hyphenation: de?vise

Verb

devise (third-person singular simple present devises, present participle devising, simple past and past participle devised)

1. (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).

   to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing

   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
2. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
4. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
5. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Translations

Noun

devise (plural devises)

1. The act of leaving real property in a will.
2. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     Fines upon devises were still exacted.

3. The real property left in such a will.
4. Design, devising.
   • 2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain ?ISBN, page 83

     I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]

See also

• device
• devising

Anagrams

• sieved, viséed

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?s?

Noun

devise c (singular definite devisen, plural indefinite deviser)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension

Further reading

• “devise” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.viz/

Noun

devise f (plural devises)

1. (heraldry) motto
2. (finance) assets in foreign currency
3. (finance, by extension) currency

Verb

devise

1. inflection of deviser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “devise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dévies, évides, évidés, vidées

Spanish

Verb

devise

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of devisar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of devisar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of devisar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of devisar.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: found, IPA^(key): /fa?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

See find.

Verb

found

1. simple past tense and past participle of find

Synonyms

• (past participle): discovered; repertitious (by chance or upon advice, obs.)

Derived terms

• found art
• found footage
• found literature
• found music
• found object
• found poetry
• lost and found
• unfound

Noun

found (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Food and lodging; board.

Etymology 2

From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fund?re. Compare fund.

Verb

found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded) (transitive)

2. (transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
3. (transitive) To begin building. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to start organization): establish

Antonyms

• (to begin building): ruin
• (to start organization): dissolve, abolish

Related terms

• foundation
• founder

Translations

References

• Oxford Online Dictionary, found
• WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University

Etymology 3

From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir.

Verb

found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded) (transitive)

1. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.

Related terms

• foundry

Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

found (plural founds)

1. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

Anagrams

• fondu