founder
founder1
noun
founder2
noun
founder3
verb
noun
- a person who establishes or originates an institution, city, or colony
创建者；缔造者
■(Zoology)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）
founder2
noun
- 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）
an iron founder.
铸铁工。
- Middle English: probably from Old French fondeur, from fondre (see found)
founder3
verb
- [no obj., 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。
■(figurative)(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.
会谈因改革问题而失败。
■(of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, or because of uneven or boggy ground
（马，骑手）蹒跚；绊倒；摔倒
■(chiefly N. Amer.)(主北美)(of a hoofed animal, especially a horse or pony) succumb to laminitis
（尤指马等有蹄动物）患蹄叶炎
- [mass noun](chiefly N. Amer.)laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals
(主北美)（马等有蹄动物）蹄叶炎，马跛病
- Middle English (in the sense 'knock to the ground'): from Old French fondrer, esfondrer 'submerge, collapse', based on Latin fundus 'bottom, base'
- It 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 backingFlounder, on the other hand, means ‘struggle; be in a state of confusion’, as in new recruits floundering about in their first week
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