Definition of "founder" in Englisch

noun

1. One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

   • The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.

2. (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).

   • a founder population
   • the founder effect

noun

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

2. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

   • a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types

noun

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

verb

1. (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.

2. (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.

3. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.

4. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.

   • I was amazed when we came among the breakers (which to me seemed large enough to founder our ship), to see with what wondrous dexterity they carried us through them, and ran their canoes on the top of one of those rolling waves […]
   • 1932, Hart Crane, "From haunts of Proserpine" (Review of Green River: A Poem for Rafinesque, James Whaler But still more disastrous was the storm which foundered his ship in Long Island Sound, swallowing within call of shore his fifty boxes of scientific equipment, his books, manuscripts and funds, the results of years of devoted labor.

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