founder

fondateur

Personne qui crée une entreprise, une organisation ou une autre activité durable.

En anglais simple : Someone who starts a company, organization, or other lasting activity.

• The founder still runs the company.
• Its founders met at university.
• Who was the founder of this school?

Comment l'utiliser : founder of something (She is the founder of a local charity.)

Synonymes : creator, establisher

Expressions courantes : company founder, founder of something

fondeur

Personne qui fabrique des objets en versant du métal liquide et chaud dans des moules.

En anglais simple : Someone who makes metal objects by pouring hot liquid metal into shaped containers.

• A founder cast the bronze bell.
• The workshop employed several skilled founders.
• The founder poured hot metal into a sand mould.

Synonymes : caster, metal caster

Expressions courantes : bell founder, type founder, bronze founder

fondeur

Ouvrier chargé d’un grand four qui chauffe des matières pour produire du fer.

En anglais simple : A worker responsible for a large furnace that heats materials to produce iron.

• The founder checked the blast furnace.
• An experienced founder supervised the smelting process.
• The ironworks employed two founders to manage its furnaces.

Expressions courantes : iron founder, blast-furnace founder

fourbure

Maladie grave du cheval qui provoque un gonflement et des douleurs à l’intérieur des sabots.

En anglais simple : A serious condition in horses in which the inside of the feet becomes swollen and painful.

• The pony developed founder last spring.
• The vet treated the horse for founder.
• Severe founder can leave a horse unable to walk.

Synonymes : laminitis

Expressions courantes : severe founder, founder in horses

échouer

Échouer ou cesser de progresser à cause de graves difficultés.

En anglais simple : To fail or stop making progress because of serious problems.

• Their plans foundered through lack of money.
• The talks foundered when neither side would compromise.
• Without public support, the project may founder.

Comment l'utiliser : founder on something (The deal foundered on a dispute over costs.)

Synonymes : fail, collapse

Contraires : succeed

Expressions courantes : founder on something, plans founder

couler

Faire entrer de l’eau dans un bateau jusqu’à ce qu’il coule.

En anglais simple : To make a boat or ship fill with water and sink.

• Huge waves foundered the boat.
• The storm foundered several fishing vessels.
• Water pouring through the damaged hull finally foundered the ship.

Synonymes : sink, swamp

Expressions courantes : founder a ship, founder the boat

trébucher

Faire un faux pas ou tomber, parfois au point de ne plus pouvoir marcher correctement.

En anglais simple : To stumble or fall, sometimes becoming unable to walk properly.

• The horse foundered on the rough track.
• His tired mount foundered and fell.
• The rider stopped when her horse began to founder.

Synonymes : stumble, fall

Expressions courantes : founder in mud, founder on something