(n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
(n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
(v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
(v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
(v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.
(v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
(n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
(n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(3) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(4) The first decades of this Institute were shaped by the assistant of Robert Koch, Friedrich Loeffler (1852-1915), an important microbiologist and one of the founders of virology.
(5) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
(6) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(7) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(8) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
(9) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(10) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
(11) Lyft co-Founder and president John Zimmer and GM president Dan Ammann say the two companies began serious discussions about three months ago.
(12) I want to raise awareness about the number of people who now feel afraid on our streets and map areas where people at risk can feel safest,” said the site’s founder, Hanna Thomas.
(13) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
(14) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
(15) Responding quickly, whatever the channel, is one of the most important things when it comes to how happy clients feel about the interaction they’ve had,” said Simon Hay, co-founder of online learning platform Firefly .
(16) The windfalls - which it declined to disclose - for its founders may not quite match the sums paid to the creators of YouTube and MySpace but the $280m deal is a welcome pay off for a project that started out from one room in Whitechapel, east London .
(17) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(18) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(19) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
(20) In a letter to potential investors, Groupon's co-founder and chief executive, Andrew Mason, warned future growth could come at the expense of profit.
Miscarry
Definition:
(v. i.) To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
(v. i.) To bring forth young before the proper time.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of toxoplasmosis was ruled out via investigations of blood sera taken from weaned lambs and from ewes that had miscarried in the same flock, employing the microprecipitation test in agar gel after Hubner and Uhliková.
(2) Female fertility drops steeply above the age of 35 and the risk of miscarriage increases: at the age of 40 and above, 40% of pregnancies will be miscarried.
(3) The not-too-distant past has demonstrated that justice, even here, can often be miscarried.
(4) Meanwhile in Edinburgh, for the second consecutive year , zoo officials have admitted that their star attraction, the giant panda Tian Tian, is not pregnant , and probably miscarried after she was artificially inseminated in the spring.
(5) Fifteen healthy infants were born including one set of twins; three pregnancies are progressing normally and five miscarried.
(6) Of the patients, 23 have delivered live infants (one twins, 22 singletons), 15 (32%) miscarried and 9 have ongoing pregnancies.
(7) Asialo-GM1 positive cells in the placenta of successful pregnancy decreased in number, and those in miscarried pregnancy increased.
(8) The death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012, after she was denied an abortion when she began miscarrying, focused attention on the issue, as did reports last year of the treatment of a young asylum seeker who had been raped before coming to Ireland , who was refused an abortion by the Irish health service.
(9) 13.8% of the women who had miscarried previously experienced this complication, as did 9.1% of those who had had an abortion, 9.1% of those who delivered prematurely, and 3.6% of women who experienced normal deliveries.
(10) Patel’s case opens the door for any woman who expresses doubt about her pregnancy to be charged if she miscarries or has a stillbirth.
(11) The results indicated that normal women reached a typical pregnancy thyroid test profile at seven to eight weeks' gestation while habitual aborters carrying a pregnancy to term reached it at 14 to 15 weeks and almost all patients who miscarried never reached it at all.
(12) Among women who had miscarried, symptom levels did not vary with attitude toward the pregnancy; among pregnant women, depressive symptoms were elevated in those with unwanted pregnancies.
(13) A follow-up study of 78 Motherisk clients who had indicated at presentation (prior to counseling) a greater than 50% inclination to terminate their pregnancy revealed that 61 decided, on the basic of counseling, to continue with the pregnancy; 57 of these women delivered normal, healthy infants, while the remaining 4 miscarried.
(14) The same investigations were performed also on a total of 40 placentae of ewes that had miscarried.
(15) Genetic abnormalities were detected in 11 cases; one patient miscarried 3 days after amniocentesis.
(16) Six of these fetuses were miscarried between 16 and 28 weeks of gestation.
(17) In the second flock there were 61 per cent positive reagents, and 9 of the ewes miscarried, 5 of them being positive for toxoplasmosis.
(18) The research participants were followed to determine whether the pregnancy was miscarried or delivered.
(19) It is stated that the phospholipid blood serum fracitons of cows that have miscarried show a statistically dependable drop only in the case of lecithine.
(20) An investigation was made of progressive changes in these parameters in 70 normal pregnant women, 34 pregnant women with a past history of habitual abortion who carried to term, seven habitual aborters who miscarried again, and 49 women at the time of spontaneous miscarriage.