different between found vs organize

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

English

Alternative forms

• organise (British)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French organiser, from Medieval Latin organiz?, from Latin organum (“organ”); see organ.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????na?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????na?z/
• Hyphenation: or?gan?ize

Verb

organize (third-person singular simple present organizes, present participle organizing, simple past and past participle organized)

1. (transitive) To arrange in working order.
2. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
   • 1803, William Cranch, Marbury v. Madison

     This original and supreme will organizes the government.

3. (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life

   • These nobler faculties in the mind of man, […] matter organized could never produce.

4. (transitive, music) To sing in parts.

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

5. (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• organize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• organize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• agonizer

Portuguese

Verb

organize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of organizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of organizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of organizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of organizar