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Meanings of
understructure
in English
Portuguese
alicerce
Catalan
fonament
Spanish
fundamento
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The lowest support of a structure.
foot
base
foundation
groundwork
substructure
fundament
Portuguese
alicerce
Synonyms
Examples for "
foot
"
foot
base
foundation
groundwork
substructure
Examples for "
foot
"
1
Good friends, good food, and some really good southern heart-pickin',
foot
-
stompin
'
music.
2
For example, left hand to blue crimp, right
foot
to green pinch.
3
Background: Several methods of débridement of diabetic
foot
ulcers are currently used.
4
As a result, he almost never set
foot
in the senate house.
5
He set on
foot
many enterprises, some reaching far East, others West.
1
Let's look at one particular area: where companies and organisations
base
themselves.
2
The timing felt right: This year also marks the
base
's
75th anniversary.
3
He said the party needs to attract a new
base
of support.
4
They are corrupt; they are
base
;
they are cowardly; they are cruel.
5
Degradation of the land
base
is another critical problem requiring technical assistance.
1
She said: Voting is the
foundation
of our democracy and our freedom.
2
However, the
foundation
questioned that process and is now taking court action.
3
Time and the work on the house
foundation
had seen to that.
4
These are the
foundation
of democracy, they're the operating system of democracy.
5
Ms Dawes said the
foundation
had specific interest in funding ependymoma research.
1
The Six Core Principles for Optimal Health provide the
groundwork
for prevention.
2
Heavy rain and flooding would have prevented any significant
groundwork
,
for example.
3
Both are risky, but a bit of
groundwork
goes a long way.
4
In short, the experienced producer lays the
groundwork
as efficiently as possible.
5
But all agree that he and his colleagues are laying important
groundwork
.
1
First, we determined sex-specific genetic structure and
substructure
across the study area.
2
To assess population
substructure
,
the authors included 18 ancestry informative markers.
3
Our study indicates ancient population
substructure
and local adaptation of Africans.
4
The
substructure
of a bridge comprises the piers, abutments and foundations.
5
They formed a
substructure
on which the sawdust had been heaped.
1
Andre looked as if someone had stuck a nail up his
fundament
.
2
The pain was entirely gone from his bowels, but not from his
fundament
.
3
He still thinks the sun shines out of your skinny
fundament
.
4
The
fundament
of this power is not granite, but mines.
5
And again for relieving the itching of the
fundament
caused by the presence of threadworms.
Usage of
understructure
in English
1
I found it by one of the emergency exits from the
understructure
of the Saneer-Weeksbooth bash'house.
2
There it sat in the middle of the glinting river, its sturdy
understructure
reposing upon Waring's reef.
3
Many of the flat rocks that banked its sloped foundation had dropped away, exposing the clay
understructure
.
4
It was a half teaspoon of beachsand tilted from somewhere in the
understructure
of the grocery cart.
5
It contained five young ones, and was composed of fine grey pushm or wool resting on an
understructure
of moss.
6
Likely wet weather and dank earth had combined with the weight of the keep to wear away at the
understructure
.
7
I could hear deep, growling laughter coming from the darkness in the hole that led down to the
understructure
of the bridge.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
sturdy understructure
Translations for
understructure
Portuguese
alicerce
pé
base
Catalan
fonament
peu
base
Spanish
fundamento
cimiento
pie
base
Understructure
through the time