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2. build, construct, frame; lay the foundation, lay the lowest part of; erect, elevate, raise, put up, rear.
3. base, ground, root, rest, set, locate,
foundation, n. 1. basis, groundwork, principle, fundamental, rudiment, radical, fundamental principle, underlying principle; root, source, Fr. fond; grounds, rationale, reason why, reason, cause, wherefore; purpose, motive, occasion.
2. base, bottom, ground; substructure, substratum, understructure, basement, cellar, underpinning; stand, support, footing, foothold.
3. establishment, founding, setting up, settlement, institution; creation, commencement, installation, origination.
founder1, n. builder, organizer, establisher, institutor; inventor, discoverer, framer, maker, designer, architect; creator, author, originator, generator, initiator, prime mover, father; producer, artist, craftsman.
founder2, v. 1. sink, go down, go to Davy Jones' locker, swamp; run aground, split upon a rock, shipwreck, capsize; roll, toss, heave, welter, wallow, tumble about, thrash, flounce; pitch, make a plunge, take a header, lurch, reel.
2. settle, subside, decline, descend.
3. fail, not succeed, go wrong, abort, miscarry; flounder, falter, collapse, fall through, Inf. come a cropper; come to grief, meet with disaster, turn out badly, end in smoke, come to nothing, never get off the ground.
4. stumble, stagger, sprawl, trip, fall, topple down or over; break down, go lame.
foundling, n. abandoned infant, waif, orphan, par-entless child, outcast, castaway; changeling,
fountain, n. 1. source, spring, well, fountainhead, wellspring, springhead, head.
2. jet, spray, spout, spurt; reservoir, fount, Archaic. font; water fountain, water cooler.
3. cause, origin, beginning. See - fountainhead. fountainhead, n. origin, source, head, rise, spring, well, wellspring, springhead; beginning, primary cause, Latin, fons et origo, causation, genesis, birth; first cause, prime mover, creator, author, agent, generator; inspiration, influence, fire, Castalia, Pieria; root, mainspring, derivation, Embryol. primordium; occasion, reason, ground, base; inception, impulse, determinant, determining condition, first factor,
fourflusher, n. Informal, bluffer, sham, faker, pretender, poseur, fraud. See - fraud (def 3).
four-handed, adj. quadrumanous.
foursquare, adj. 1. square, quadrangular, rectangular, equiangular, tetragonal, Math, orthogonal, quadriform, Rare, quadrate, Rare, quadratic, Rare. quadratical, Rare, quadrantile, Obs. quadrant, Obs. quadran or quadren, Obs., Rare, quadrantal.
2. firm, immovable, unswerving, unwavering, unflinching, undeviating, unshrinking, unfaltering; resolute, resolved, tenacious, inexorable, inflexible, uncompromising, unyielding, intransigent, determined, decided, fixed, settled; steady, steadfast, staunch, constant, dedicated, true, true-blue; trustworthy, Inf. trusty, reliable, dependable, sure.
3. candid, frank, forthright, direct, straightforward, straight-from-the-shoulder; plain, plainspoken, plainspeaking, downright, outright, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, undisguised, Inf. flat-footed, Inf straight-out, Inf. matter-of-fact; outspoken, free-spoken, free-speaking, unreticent, free, bold, unreserved, unrestrained, unconstrained, unchecked, uncurbed, unabashed, uninhibited; blunt, bluff, brusque, brash, tactless. -adv. 4. candidly, frankly, forthright, forthrightly, directly, straightforward, straightforwards, straightforwardly; explicitly, unequivocally, undisguisedly, plainly, in plain words or English, with no nonsense, all joking aside; outspokenly, freely, boldly, unreservedly, unrestrainedly, unconstrainedly, without reserve or restraint or constraint, unabashedly, uninhibitedly; bluntly, bluffly, brusquely, brashly, tactlessly.
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