单词 | founder |
释义 | founder1/ˈfaʊndə /noun A person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry: an iron founder...
OriginMiddle English: probably from Old French fondeur, from fondre (see found3). Rhymesfounder2/ˈfaʊndə /noun 1A person who establishes an institution or settlement: he was the founder of modern Costa Rica...
Synonyms originator, creator, initiator, institutor, instigator, organizer, father, founding father, prime mover, architect, engineer, designer, deviser, developer, pioneer, author, planner, framer, inventor, mastermind, maker, producer, builder, constructor literary begetter rare establisher 1.1 Zoology An animal, especially a fertilized female insect, that founds a new colony.The founder flies of the colony originated from Gainesville....
founder3/ˈfaʊndə /verb 1 [no object, with adverbial] (Of a ship) fill with water and sink: six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Cornish coast...
Synonyms sink, go to the bottom, go down, be lost at sea, submerge, capsize, run aground, be swamped informal go to Davy Jones's locker 1.1(Of a plan or undertaking) fail or break down as a result of a particular problem: the talks foundered on the issue of reform...
Synonyms fail, be unsuccessful, not succeed, lack success, fall through, fall flat, break down, abort, miscarry, be defeated, suffer defeat, be in vain, be frustrated, collapse, misfire, backfire, not come up to scratch, meet with disaster, come to grief, come to nothing, come to naught, miss the mark, run aground, go wrong, go awry, go astray informal flop, fizzle out, flatline, come a cropper, bite the dust, blow up in someone's face, go down like a lead balloon 2 [no object] (Of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc. some of their horses foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the riverbed...
Synonyms stumble, trip, trip up, lose one's balance, lose/miss one's footing, slip, pitch, stagger, lurch, totter, fall, fall down, fall over, fall headlong, tumble, topple, sprawl, go lame, collapse 2.1chiefly North American (Of a hoofed animal, especially a horse or pony) succumb to laminitis.Don't feed straight corn, because goats will founder and have hoof problems, Finch advised....
noun [mass noun] chiefly North American Laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals.Rapid intakes of highly fermentable diets that occur with meal-eating behavior may cause feed-related metabolic disorders such as acidosis, founder, and bloat....
UsageIt is easy to confuse the words founder and flounder, not only because they sound similar but also because the contexts in which they are used tend to overlap. Founder means, in its general and extended use, ‘fail or come to nothing’, as in the scheme foundered because of lack of organizational backing. Flounder, on the other hand, means ‘struggle; be in a state of confusion’, as in new recruits floundering about in their first week. OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'knock to the ground'): from Old French fondrer, esfondrer 'submerge, collapse', based on Latin fundus 'bottom, base'. founder4/ˈfaʊndə /verb [with object] Irish Make (someone) very cold: it would founder you out there (as adjective foundered) get a fire lit, I’m foundered...
OriginMid 16th century: from founder3, influenced by obsolete found 'to chill or numb with cold'. |
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