Meaning of Founder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Founding Father.
   US, in-plural, often
2. One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
3. A Founding Father
4. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
5. A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
6. A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
7. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

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Examples

“The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.”

“As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]”

“Young people love to idolize their predecessors. [Steve] Jobs was Silicon Valley's idol of choice for decades, but to the next generation of startup founders, his legacy feels about as old as Web 1.0.”

“Chris Printup, a founder of the streetwear brand Born X Raised, which became a fixture on the Los Angeles fashion scene, died on Wednesday morning at a hospital in Albuquerque. He was 42.”

“a founder population”

“the founder effect”

“The sickle cell mutation today can be found in five different haplotypes, leading to the conclusion that the mutation appeared independently five times in five different founders.”

“Among the Ashkenazi Jews in the positive group, 81 percent had one of the three founder mutations, suggesting that 23andMe's test could be helpful for them.”

“The gene mutation is likely to have come from a founder individual who lived at least 250 years ago, the paper published in the European Journal of Human Genetics said.”

“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.”

“a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types”

“As the Founders saw it, the great driver of freedom was knowledge.”

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