different between found vs said

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

• saide, sayde, seyde (obsolete)
• sayed (nonstandard)
• sed (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English s?de, sæ?de (preterite) and ?esæ?d (past participle), equivalent to say +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?d, IPA^(key): /s?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

said

1. simple past tense and past participle of say

Adjective

said (not comparable)

1. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

Translations

Determiner

said

1. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

Translations

See also

• Said for proper noun sense

Anagrams

• AIDS, Aids, Dais, IADS, IADs, aids, dais, daïs, sadi, sida

Estonian

Verb

said

1. Second-person singular past form of saama.
2. Third-person plural past form of saama.

Middle English

Verb

said

1. Alternative form of seide

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) seit
• (Sutsilvan) set
• (Surmiran) seid

Etymology

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis (“perishing, decrease”).

Noun

said f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) thirst