founding

Main Entry:
founding
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: establishing
Synonyms: authorizing, colonizing, endowing, instituting, originating, planting, setting up
Main Entry: found
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put on a base
Synonyms: bottom, build, erect, establish, ground, predicate, raise, rear, rest, root, stay, support, sustain
Main Entry: colonization
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: settlement of area
Synonyms: clearing, establishment, expanding, expansion, founding, immigration, migration, opening up, peopling, pioneering, populating, settlement, settling, squatting, transplanting
Main Entry: establishment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: organization; creation
Synonyms: enactment, endowment, formation, formulation, foundation, founding, inauguration, installation, institution, setting up
Main Entry: establishing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the act of founding
Synonyms: beginning, building, chartering, constituting, endowing, fixing, founding, implementing, inaugurating, initiating, instituting, organizing, originating, regulating, setting up, settling, stabilizing, starting, subsidizing
Antonyms: dissolving, ending, tearing down
Main Entry: base
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: build plan or opinion on
Synonyms: construct, depend, derive, establish, found, ground, hinge, locate, plant, predicate, prop, rest, set up, station, stay
Main Entry: bed
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plant
Synonyms: base, embed, establish, fix, found, implant, insert, set up, settle
Main Entry: begin
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: start
Synonyms: activate, actualize, break ground, break the ice, bring about, bring to pass, cause, commence, create, do, drive, effect, embark on, enter on, enter upon, establish, eventuate, found, generate, get going, give birth to, give impulse, go ahead, go into, impel, inaugurate, induce, initiate, instigate, institute, introduce, launch, lay foundation for, lead, make, make active, motivate, mount, occasion, open, originate, plunge into, prepare, produce, set about, set in motion, set up, trigger, undertake
Antonyms: complete, conclude, consummate, end, finish
Main Entry: constitute
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: comprise, form
Synonyms: aggregate, complement, complete, compose, compound, construct, cook up, create, develop, dream up, embody, enact, establish, fill out, fix, flesh out, found, frame, fudge together, incorporate, integrate, make, make up, set up
Notes: compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts'
comprise means literally 'embrace': a zoo comprises mammals, reptiles, and birds (because it 'embraces' or includes them), but animals do not comprise ('embrace') a zoo, they constitute a zoo
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