Pioneer vs. Founder — What's the Difference?

A series of American space probes launched between 1958 and 1973, two of which provided the first clear pictures of Jupiter and Saturn (1973–9).

A person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry

Develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity)

A person who establishes an institution or settlement

One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.

Laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals.

One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development

(of a ship) fill with water and sink

A soldier who performs construction and demolition work in the field to facilitate troop movements.

(of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc.

A species that is typically among the first to become established in a bare, open, or disturbed area.

Make (someone) very cold

Of, relating to, or characteristic of early settlers

To sink below the surface of the water

Leading the way; trailblazing

To cave in; sink

To venture into (an area) or prepare (a way)

To fail utterly; collapse

To settle (a region).

To stumble, especially to stumble and go lame. Used of horses.

To initiate or participate in the development of

To become ill from overeating. Used of livestock.

To act as a pioneer

To be afflicted with laminitis. Used of horses.

One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.

To cause to founder

A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.

See laminitis.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.

One who establishes something or formulates the basis for something

A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.

One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state).

(Communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming an member of the Party itself.

(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

(transitive) To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.

The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.

(veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.

To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

To flood with water and sink.

To take part in the early development of; to break ground in; to invent or originate.

(intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

(intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.

One the first colonists or settler in a new territory;

To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.

Open up an area or prepare a way;

(transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.

Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of;

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

Open up and explore a new area;

One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.

A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.

To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

To fail; to miscarry.

To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

Inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

A person who founds or establishes some institution;

A worker who makes metal castings

Fail utterly; collapse;

Sink below the surface

Break down, literally or metaphorically;

Stumble and nearly fall;