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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that holds up structure |
| Synonyms: | abutment, agency, back, backing, base, bed, bedding, block, brace, buttress, collar, column, cornerstone, device, flotation, foothold, footing, foundation, fulcrum, groundwork, guide, hold, lining, means, medium, pillar, platform, pole, post, prop, rampart, reinforcement, rest, rib, rod, shore, stake, stanchion, stave, stay, stiffener, stilt, substratum, substructure, sustentation, timber, underpinning |
| Main Entry: | underpinning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis |
| Synonyms: | base, foundation, ground, groundwork, substructure, support |
| Main Entry: | underpinning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supporting structure |
| Synonyms: | base, basis, foundation, groundwork, reinforcement, support |
| Main Entry: | fundament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation |
| Synonyms: | base, basis, bed, bottom, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, support, underpinning, understructure |
| Main Entry: | rudiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis |
| Synonyms: | base, bed, bottom, cornerstone, foot, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, ground, groundwork, rest, resting place, root, seat, substructure, support |
| Main Entry: | substratum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base |
| Synonyms: | basement, basis, bed, bedrock, bottom, foot, footing, foundation, fundament, ground, groundwork, infrastructure, pedestal, rest, root, seat, seating, stand, substructure, support, underpinning |
| Main Entry: | undersurface |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bottom |
| Synonyms: | base, basement, basis, bed, bedrock, belly, deepest part, depths, floor, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, lowest part, nadir, nether portion, pedestal, pediment, rest, seat, sole, substratum, substructure, support, terra firma, underbelly, underneath, underside |
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| Main Entry: | bottom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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basad, basal, based on, benthonic, bottom, built on, caudad, founded on, fundamental, grounded on, nethermost, undermost
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| Main Entry: | preparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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afloat, afoot, annonary, armed at all points, armed to the teeth, at harness, at one's post, booted and spurred, brewing, brooding, cut and dried, elaborate, forthcoming, fossorial, graith, handy, hatching, highly wrought, in agitation, in arms, in battle array, in best bib and tucker, in course of preparation, in embryo, in full feather, in gear, in hand, in harness, in practice, in preparation, in readiness, in reserve, in saddle, in store for, in training, in war, in working order, inchoate, labored, made to one's hand, mature, mellow, on foot, on the alert, on the anvil, on the stocks, on the table, practiced, precautionary, preliminary, preparative, preparatory, prepared, preparing, provident, provisional, ready, ready, ready to one's hand, smelling of the lamp, snug, sword in hand, under consideration, under revision, up in arms, worked up
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