Found vs. Foundation — What's the Difference?

Past and past participle of find

An underlying basis or principle

Establish or originate (an institution or organization)

The lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level

Base (something) on a particular principle, idea, or feeling

The action of establishing an institution or organization

Melt and mould (metal).

The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.

Having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly.

(Architecture) A wall or other structure, as of concrete or masonry, usually extending below ground level and forming the base upon which a building rests.

(of a ship) equipped

Something that gives rise to or supports something else.

To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

To establish the foundation or basis of; base

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.

To melt (metal) and pour into a mold.

(figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.

To make (objects) by pouring molten material into a mold.

(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.

Past tense and past participle of find.

(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.

Simple past tense and past participle of find

A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

(transitive) To start (an institution or organization).

That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.

(transitive) To begin building. en

(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.

To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.

A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

(obsolete) Food and lodging; board.

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; groundwork; basis.

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

A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.

That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity; as, the Ford Foundation.

To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.

The basis on which something is grounded;

To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.

An institution supported by an endowment

A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.

The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;

Food and lodging provided in addition to money;

Lowest support of a structure;

Set up or found;

Education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge;

Set up or lay the groundwork for;

A woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body

Use as a basis for; found on;

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

Come upon unexpectedly or after searching;