Got vs. Found — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Got and Found
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Got
Past tense and a past participle of get1.
Found
Past and past participle of find
Got
Expressing obligation; used with have.
I can't go out tonight: I've got to study for my exams.
Found
Establish or originate (an institution or organization)
The monastery was founded in 1665
Got
Must; have/has (to).
I got to go study.
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Found
Base (something) on a particular principle, idea, or feeling
A society founded on the highest principles of religion and education
Got
Have.
They got a new car.
He got a lot of nerve.
Found
Melt and mould (metal).
Got
(Singlish) Have; there is.
Got problem is it?
Got ants over here.
Found
Having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly.
Got
Marks the completive or experiential aspect.
Found
(of a ship) equipped
The ship was well found and seaworthy
Got
Past participle of get
By that time we'd got very cold.
I've got two children.
How many children have you got?
Found
To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence
The college was founded in 1872.
Found
To establish the foundation or basis of; base
Found a theory on firm evidence.
Found
To melt (metal) and pour into a mold.
Found
To make (objects) by pouring molten material into a mold.
Found
Past tense and past participle of find.
Found
Simple past tense and past participle of find
Found
(transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
Found
(transitive) To begin building. en
Found
To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
Found
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
Found
(obsolete) Food and lodging; board.
Found
A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
Found
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
Found
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.
I had else been perfect,Whole as the marble, founded as the rock.
A man that all his timeHath founded his good fortunes on your love.
It fell not, for it was founded on a rock.
Found
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.
There they shall foundTheir government, and their great senate choose.
Found
A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
Found
Food and lodging provided in addition to money;
They worked for $30 and found
Found
Set up or found;
She set up a literacy program
Found
Set up or lay the groundwork for;
Establish a new department
Found
Use as a basis for; found on;
Base a claim on some observation
Found
Come upon unexpectedly or after searching;
Found art
The lost-and-found department
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