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noun ˈfaʊndəˈfaʊndər A person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry. 铸造工；铸造厂业主（或厂长） 铸铁工。 Example sentencesExamples - But Mr Milner, director of Keighley iron founders Leach and Thompson, said there were dozens of examples of manufacturers in the district switching jobs overseas.
- By 1840 business directories in New York City listed thirteen iron founders, and sixteen the following year.
OriginMiddle English: probably from Old French fondeur, from fondre (see found3). Rhymesbounder, compounder, expounder, flounder, grounder, impounder, pounder, propounder, rounder, sounder noun ˈfaʊndəˈfaʊndər 1A person who establishes an institution or settlement. 创建者；缔造者 he was the founder of modern Costa Rica Example sentencesExamples - She was determined that ‘never again’ should families go through the same ordeal and became a founder member and national coordinator of the National Committee Relating to Organ Retention.
- The group founders set the original rules, but they can be changed by vote of the active PMC members.
- But already the founders have established two key areas of need - including facilities for young people.
- When the 11 founder members of the euro fused their currencies in January 1999, European policymakers promised they were launching an economic powerhouse on the world to rival America.
- The names of the founders of some other, specific religious groups can often be found in the main statistical database, although that is not the purpose of that database.
- However, the term is nothing more than ‘a marketing idea used to sell books,’ Slashdot founder Rob Malda believes.
- Archaeologists say they have unearthed Lupercale - the sacred cave where, according to legend, a she-wolf nursed the twin founders of Rome and where the city itself was born.
- Wilks was a founder member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
- The founder member of a branch of an army organisation has been commemorated with a donation towards cancer research.
- He played table tennis, tennis and cricket, and was one of the founder members of Western Athletics Club when it was established in the late 1970s.
- Plenty of the founder members couldn't make it this close to Christmas, so January's event may well be larger.
- A founder member of the Rochdale Art Society, Donald Taylor was very well known for oil and watercolour landscapes, mainly depicting the Lake District, the Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales and Whitby.
- Theresa Merritt, one of the founder members, said: ‘At the moment we have ten ladies who train regularly every week.’
- And they were the original founder members of the European Community - a team of six which includes France, but not Britain.
- We usually invest $6000n in each company, where n is the number of participating founders.
- He was also a founder member of Clonmore Development Association, being its first chairman.
- A founder member of the original Bradford Festival committee, Dusty Rhodes, is now leading the Reclaim Bradford Festival campaign to bring the organisation back to local people.
- The 16 founder members decided it made better sense to bury their differences in the area of staff training and promotion of careers in the sector rather than continue the zero-sum game of poaching talent from each other.
- He was a founder member of many scientific establishments, including the Paediatric Pathology Society and the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida.
- However, the director admits that as a founder member of the theatre's company, appearing in over 20 productions, it's nice to come full circle and give something back to the theatre where his career began.
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 - 1.1Zoology An animal, especially a fertilized female insect, that founds a new colony.
〔动〕新群体建立者（尤指已受孕的雌性昆虫） Example sentencesExamples - The founder flies of the colony originated from Gainesville.
- As the founder female had been inseminated before collection, the flies used in this study can be regarded as a random sample from the wild.
- The biggest risk is that almost the entire population is the product of as few as three stallions from the founder group.
- Fish exposed to founders trained to take the long route will only exhibit a tendency to take that route when swimming in a shoal.
- Differences in the PRKAG3 gene sequences of the founder animals of the intercross were analyzed.
verb ˈfaʊndəˈfaʊndər 1no object, with adverbial (of a ship) fill with water and sink. （船）沉没 six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Cornish coast 游艇在康沃尔海岸附近沉没时，六人被淹死。 Example sentencesExamples - Some twenty Spanish ships foundered on the west coast.
- So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
- That the Prime Minister's ship almost foundered on that ‘rock’ appears to have made little difference.
- A letter written by a Titanic passenger who left the ship before it foundered on its maiden voyage was sold for £13,000 at a Yorkshire auction yesterday.
- The worst-case scenario is that his ship will founder and spill its load of heavy fuel into the ocean.
- If it is not covered, the boat will founder in this tempest, and the ocean will summarily swallow the sailors and their dream.
- But before long the boat foundered on a sand-bank and all we could do was wait for the tide.
- The South Island was formed, they say, when a canoe full of 150 gods foundered on a reef.
- The vessel foundered at around 3pm but, unusually, the plane failed to conduct the scheduled afternoon flight.
- It is assumed that the vessel foundered in an instant but violent storm.
- The collector, who does not want to be named, told the Sunday Herald that despite checking with Titanic societies in the US and the UK, no other documents had been found stating that the ship could not founder.
- When a small boat foundered in the seas to the north of Australia and its passengers were rescued by the MV Tampa, the ship came to symbolise this choice between control and chaos.
- In 1822 the Tek Sing foundered on a reef off the Java coast and sank within minutes.
- Twenty Armada ships were to founder on the Irish rocks.
- The subject is an Afro-Brazilian sailor who saved many lives when his ship foundered along the coast of Brazil.
- Rather than asking why the ship foundered, Howell investigates how this maritime disaster acquired wider cultural and social significance in the years before World War I.
- The Sydney, with superior speed and firepower, raked the German ship, which limped to North Keeling where she foundered on the reef.
- Barshef says the ships around him all foundered.
- Nearly a century later, sledding down the Horton, Vilhjalmur Stefansson learned of the Titanic's sinking a full three months and ten days after the ocean liner had foundered in the North Atlantic.
- In 1629, the Dutch ship Batavia foundered off the coast of Western Australia.
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.
〈喻〉（计划，事业）失败；垮掉 the talks foundered on the issue of reform 围绕改革问题进行的会谈未获成功。 Example sentencesExamples - Attempts to introduce a new price structure have foundered on the implacable opposition of Norwegian-controlled companies.
- So our revolution continues, and our ideals must struggle against the human tendencies and the social forces that would cause our experiment to founder and fail.
- The socialists had an egalitarian dream, the achievement of which inevitably foundered under their managerial inexperience and the unyielding zeal of their convictions.
- Negotiations, already a year behind schedule, have foundered on divisions between rich and poor nations.
- Throughout the 1990s, under the previous administration - which is no longer giving support to this moratorium - those proposals foundered.
- Nothing, of course, came of this, as his proposals foundered on the rock-like conservatism of his profession.
- If the current negotiations over a grand coalition should founder, these plans could be quickly revived.
- But both proposals foundered because of the difficulties in finding groups prepared to donate £2m.
- In the mass mobilisation wars of the 20th century, several public health plans that had foundered for lack of public support in peace time came to seem necessary for the war effort.
- The scheme soon foundered, being rejected by the colonial Premiers when they gathered in London for the two Colonial Conferences of 1887 and 1897.
- They mention three controversial proposals that allegedly foundered on contributors' influence.
- Although several individuals had been keen to buy the house, their plans always foundered when he questioned whether they had the financial resources to carry the project through.
- An attempted comeback last year foundered when he failed again to secure a place on the Tour, and in June he booked himself into a clinic that specialised in depression and drug addiction.
- The association suggested the appointment of a further commissioner from a panel representing bus users but the proposal foundered in the absence of more general support.
- This plan foundered more through the sheer impracticability of the proposals than obstruction by officials.
- But the plan foundered when the owner refused to enter into any discussions and the council was unable to make any progress.
- And if shareholders believe a board is biased toward the interests of management, a buyout proposal can quickly founder.
- In Scotland, the risky strategy could founder on the traditional perils of the nation's health bureaucracy.
- Members of the GMB union at the plant had called out their members on a 24-hour strike after negotiations with management over this year's pay round foundered on a proposed productivity deal.
- A French and German proposal foundered last year on precisely the same issue.
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
2no object (of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc. （马，骑手）蹒跚；绊倒；摔倒 some of their horses foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the riverbed Example sentencesExamples - The pony, who is locked up so he won't founder, started galloping up and down the fenceline when I switched on the light.
- My mother was an orphan hedgewitch, healer, and midwife of small means until one of my father's horses foundered nearly on her doorstep.
- Only a few months later, the handsome sorrel foundered and his bid for a World Championship ended.
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 - 2.1North American (of a hoofed animal, especially a horse or pony) succumb to laminitis.
（尤指马等有蹄动物的）患蹄叶炎 Example sentencesExamples - Keep donkeys off the sweet feed and grain, as they can founder and develop laminitis just as horses do.
- Don't feed straight corn, because goats will founder and have hoof problems, Finch advised.
- Recently, he foundered in his left fore, which was very acute.
noun ˈfaʊndəˈfaʊndər mass nounNorth American Laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals. 〈主北美〉（马等有蹄动物的）蹄叶炎，马跛病 Example sentencesExamples - Rapid intakes of highly fermentable diets that occur with meal-eating behavior may cause feed-related metabolic disorders such as acidosis, founder, and bloat.
- Some of the losses have been associated with management errors, including not providing transition time, founder, and hauling water in fertilizer tanks.
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'. verbˈfaʊndəˈfaʊndər [with object]Irish Make (someone) very cold. it would founder you out there get a fire lit, I'm foundered Example sentencesExamples - I have many memories of being foundered on that windswept strand in the name of family holiday time.
- The foundered journalists standing for around two hours outside were imagining the headlines.
- It would founder you; there's goin' to be a frost.
- A child returning from playing outdoors in the cold, would be told, "Sit down there and warm yourself. You're foundered".
- We're rehearsing in a freezing cold old shirt factory and I'm foundered.
- The band will doubtless be foundered in the crisp November air.
- I was permanently foundered, wearing thermals in and out of bed.
- Could you put some heat through the place? It would founder you.
OriginMid 16th century: from founder3, influenced by obsolete found 'to chill or numb with cold'. nounˈfoundərˈfaʊndər A person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry. 铸造工；铸造厂业主（或厂长） 铸铁工。 Example sentencesExamples - By 1840 business directories in New York City listed thirteen iron founders, and sixteen the following year.
- But Mr Milner, director of Keighley iron founders Leach and Thompson, said there were dozens of examples of manufacturers in the district switching jobs overseas.
OriginMiddle English: probably from Old French fondeur, from fondre (see found). nounˈfoundərˈfaʊndər A person who establishes an institution or settlement. 创建者；缔造者 he was the founder of modern Costa Rica Example sentencesExamples - He played table tennis, tennis and cricket, and was one of the founder members of Western Athletics Club when it was established in the late 1970s.
- He was a founder member of many scientific establishments, including the Paediatric Pathology Society and the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida.
- However, the term is nothing more than ‘a marketing idea used to sell books,’ Slashdot founder Rob Malda believes.
- The group founders set the original rules, but they can be changed by vote of the active PMC members.
- We usually invest $6000n in each company, where n is the number of participating founders.
- When the 11 founder members of the euro fused their currencies in January 1999, European policymakers promised they were launching an economic powerhouse on the world to rival America.
- The names of the founders of some other, specific religious groups can often be found in the main statistical database, although that is not the purpose of that database.
- She was determined that ‘never again’ should families go through the same ordeal and became a founder member and national coordinator of the National Committee Relating to Organ Retention.
- And they were the original founder members of the European Community - a team of six which includes France, but not Britain.
- He was also a founder member of Clonmore Development Association, being its first chairman.
- A founder member of the original Bradford Festival committee, Dusty Rhodes, is now leading the Reclaim Bradford Festival campaign to bring the organisation back to local people.
- But already the founders have established two key areas of need - including facilities for young people.
- Wilks was a founder member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
- A founder member of the Rochdale Art Society, Donald Taylor was very well known for oil and watercolour landscapes, mainly depicting the Lake District, the Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales and Whitby.
- The founder member of a branch of an army organisation has been commemorated with a donation towards cancer research.
- Archaeologists say they have unearthed Lupercale - the sacred cave where, according to legend, a she-wolf nursed the twin founders of Rome and where the city itself was born.
- Theresa Merritt, one of the founder members, said: ‘At the moment we have ten ladies who train regularly every week.’
- However, the director admits that as a founder member of the theatre's company, appearing in over 20 productions, it's nice to come full circle and give something back to the theatre where his career began.
- The 16 founder members decided it made better sense to bury their differences in the area of staff training and promotion of careers in the sector rather than continue the zero-sum game of poaching talent from each other.
- Plenty of the founder members couldn't make it this close to Christmas, so January's event may well be larger.
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
verbˈfoundərˈfaʊndər [no object]1(of a ship) fill with water and sink. （船）沉没 six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Florida coast 游艇在康沃尔海岸附近沉没时，六人被淹死。 Example sentencesExamples - The collector, who does not want to be named, told the Sunday Herald that despite checking with Titanic societies in the US and the UK, no other documents had been found stating that the ship could not founder.
- That the Prime Minister's ship almost foundered on that ‘rock’ appears to have made little difference.
- If it is not covered, the boat will founder in this tempest, and the ocean will summarily swallow the sailors and their dream.
- The South Island was formed, they say, when a canoe full of 150 gods foundered on a reef.
- It is assumed that the vessel foundered in an instant but violent storm.
- A letter written by a Titanic passenger who left the ship before it foundered on its maiden voyage was sold for £13,000 at a Yorkshire auction yesterday.
- In 1629, the Dutch ship Batavia foundered off the coast of Western Australia.
- Rather than asking why the ship foundered, Howell investigates how this maritime disaster acquired wider cultural and social significance in the years before World War I.
- The worst-case scenario is that his ship will founder and spill its load of heavy fuel into the ocean.
- Barshef says the ships around him all foundered.
- The vessel foundered at around 3pm but, unusually, the plane failed to conduct the scheduled afternoon flight.
- In 1822 the Tek Sing foundered on a reef off the Java coast and sank within minutes.
- But before long the boat foundered on a sand-bank and all we could do was wait for the tide.
- Nearly a century later, sledding down the Horton, Vilhjalmur Stefansson learned of the Titanic's sinking a full three months and ten days after the ocean liner had foundered in the North Atlantic.
- So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
- The Sydney, with superior speed and firepower, raked the German ship, which limped to North Keeling where she foundered on the reef.
- The subject is an Afro-Brazilian sailor who saved many lives when his ship foundered along the coast of Brazil.
- When a small boat foundered in the seas to the north of Australia and its passengers were rescued by the MV Tampa, the ship came to symbolise this choice between control and chaos.
- Some twenty Spanish ships foundered on the west coast.
- Twenty Armada ships were to founder on the Irish rocks.
Synonyms sink, go to the bottom, go down, be lost at sea, submerge, capsize, run aground, be swamped - 1.1 (of a plan or undertaking) fail or break down, typically as a result of a particular problem or setback.
〈喻〉（计划，事业）失败；垮掉 the talks foundered on the issue of reform 围绕改革问题进行的会谈未获成功。 Example sentencesExamples - But the plan foundered when the owner refused to enter into any discussions and the council was unable to make any progress.
- In the mass mobilisation wars of the 20th century, several public health plans that had foundered for lack of public support in peace time came to seem necessary for the war effort.
- Attempts to introduce a new price structure have foundered on the implacable opposition of Norwegian-controlled companies.
- An attempted comeback last year foundered when he failed again to secure a place on the Tour, and in June he booked himself into a clinic that specialised in depression and drug addiction.
- The socialists had an egalitarian dream, the achievement of which inevitably foundered under their managerial inexperience and the unyielding zeal of their convictions.
- So our revolution continues, and our ideals must struggle against the human tendencies and the social forces that would cause our experiment to founder and fail.
- A French and German proposal foundered last year on precisely the same issue.
- And if shareholders believe a board is biased toward the interests of management, a buyout proposal can quickly founder.
- Although several individuals had been keen to buy the house, their plans always foundered when he questioned whether they had the financial resources to carry the project through.
- Throughout the 1990s, under the previous administration - which is no longer giving support to this moratorium - those proposals foundered.
- They mention three controversial proposals that allegedly foundered on contributors' influence.
- Nothing, of course, came of this, as his proposals foundered on the rock-like conservatism of his profession.
- Members of the GMB union at the plant had called out their members on a 24-hour strike after negotiations with management over this year's pay round foundered on a proposed productivity deal.
- But both proposals foundered because of the difficulties in finding groups prepared to donate £2m.
- If the current negotiations over a grand coalition should founder, these plans could be quickly revived.
- The scheme soon foundered, being rejected by the colonial Premiers when they gathered in London for the two Colonial Conferences of 1887 and 1897.
- This plan foundered more through the sheer impracticability of the proposals than obstruction by officials.
- The association suggested the appointment of a further commissioner from a panel representing bus users but the proposal foundered in the absence of more general support.
- Negotiations, already a year behind schedule, have foundered on divisions between rich and poor nations.
- In Scotland, the risky strategy could founder on the traditional perils of the nation's health bureaucracy.
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 - 1.2North American (of a hoofed animal, especially a horse or pony) succumb to laminitis.
（尤指马等有蹄动物的）患蹄叶炎 Example sentencesExamples - Recently, he foundered in his left fore, which was very acute.
- Don't feed straight corn, because goats will founder and have hoof problems, Finch advised.
- Keep donkeys off the sweet feed and grain, as they can founder and develop laminitis just as horses do.
nounˈfoundərˈfaʊndər North American Laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals. 〈主北美〉（马等有蹄动物的）蹄叶炎，马跛病 Example sentencesExamples - Rapid intakes of highly fermentable diets that occur with meal-eating behavior may cause feed-related metabolic disorders such as acidosis, founder, and bloat.
- Some of the losses have been associated with management errors, including not providing transition time, founder, and hauling water in fertilizer tanks.
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 overlap. Founder means, in its general and extended use, ‘fail or come to nothing, sink out of sight’ (the scheme foundered because of lack of organizational backing). Flounder, on the other hand, means ‘struggle, move clumsily, be in a state of confusion’ (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’. verbˈfoundərˈfaʊndər [with object]Irish Make (someone) very cold. it would founder you out there get a fire lit, I'm foundered Example sentencesExamples - I have many memories of being foundered on that windswept strand in the name of family holiday time.
- We're rehearsing in a freezing cold old shirt factory and I'm foundered.
- It would founder you; there's goin' to be a frost.
- The band will doubtless be foundered in the crisp November air.
- A child returning from playing outdoors in the cold, would be told, "Sit down there and warm yourself. You're foundered".
- Could you put some heat through the place? It would founder you.
- The foundered journalists standing for around two hours outside were imagining the headlines.
- I was permanently foundered, wearing thermals in and out of bed.
OriginMid 16th century: from founder, influenced by obsolete found ‘to chill or numb with cold’. |