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fountain
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa?n.tn?/
- (US) IPA(key): [?fa?n.?n?]
Noun
fountain (plural fountains)
- (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
- Nothing will plea?e ?ome Men, but Books ?tuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- (US) A soda fountain.
- 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)
- He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.
- 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)
- (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
Synonyms
- fount
- wellspring
- (heraldry) syke
Derived terms
Related terms
- font
Translations
Verb
fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)
- (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
Translations
References
Further reading
- fountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- infonaut
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foundation
English
Etymology
From Latin fund?ti?.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fa?n?de???n/, [fa??n?de???n?]
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
foundation (countable and uncountable, plural foundations)
- The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
- Synonym: establishment
- Antonyms: abolition, dissolution, ruination
- That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
- Synonyms: groundwork, basis
- (figuratively) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
- Synonyms: groundwork, platform, stage
- 2006, K P Yadav, Economic Planning And Restructuring, Sarup & Sons ?ISBN, page 44
- The implication is that the Gandhian model of growth is possible, now that Nehru's investment strategy had already laid a strong foundation for economic growth.
- (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
- (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
- Synonyms: base, groundwall
- A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
- A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- foundation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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