founder

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/|[ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː]    美 /ˈfaʊ̯n.dɚ/|[ˈfaʊ̯n.dɚ] ~ [ˈfaʊ̯n.dɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
    — The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.
  2. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
    — The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
  3. A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
  4. A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
    — a founder population
  5. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
    — a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
动词 v.
  1. To flood with water and sink. intransitive
    — We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.
  2. To fall; to stumble and go lame. especially,intransitive
  3. To fail; to miscarry. intransitive
    — All his tricks founder.
  4. To cause to flood and sink, as a ship. archaic,transitive
    — We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like to founder our Ship.
  5. To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs. transitive

词形变化

founders plural founders plural founders plural founders present,singular,third-person foundering participle,present foundered participle,past foundered past

词汇关系

衍生词
bellfounder brassfounder bronzefounder cofounder founder effect founderer founderitis founder member founder mode founderous foundership foundress ironfounder letterfounder nonfounder bell founder bell-founder type founder type-founder

词源

词源 1
From Old French fondeur, from Latin fundātor, equivalent to found + -er.
词源 2
From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”).
词源 3
From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”).
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