substructure
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈsʌbˌstrʌk.tʃər/
:
subestructura
- The engineer explained that the substructure was crucial for the stability of the bridge.
People are anxious to tell stories their way without being tied into the Hollywood substructure.
- People are anxious to tell stories their way without being tied into the Hollywood substructure.
- We're also talking about like an economic substructure that allows these things to to continue on.
- because the substructure of every movie that you see, we could call it,
- So all cortical columns pass through this substructure.
Examples
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The Beatrice demonstration project off the coast of Britain was the first transitional water depth installation of a jacket-type substructure for use with wind turbines.
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Evaluation of the separate nasal substructures individually, as well as the nasal cavity as a whole, is important in guiding surgical management.
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So I'm going to make a support kind of a substructure on to which I can rest this.
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However, the solution cost is reduced because we are dealing with one substructure, a typical substructure only once.
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The substructures go down six levels in some places.
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And according to the blueprints, the substructure is exposed.
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The seats above had brick substructures faced with marble slabs.
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There's very little that survives of the substructures that Tiberius was responsible for beginning for that palace.
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See, you're buying the substructure for the superstructure to come, and with purchase you will inherit the best sites available, the finest botanists and herb sommeliers in the world, as well as the most innovative marijuana technology on the planet.
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Analysis of the wind turbine and foundation separately is not sufficient in the case of a floating turbine because the interaction between the wave loads on the substructure and the dynamic loads due to wind turbine thrust forces on the tower and turbine cannot be neglected.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
439
1.0
The lowest part of something on which it stands
204
1.0
The bottom part that supports something, for example an organ or object
183
2.5
A strong structure that holds a building, vehicle, or piece of furniture
127
3.6
The lowest part of a building that supports and spreads its weight
97
3.5
A basic idea that people build other things on
29
3.5
A structure of parts that holds something up, like a stage
12
5.0
A basic support or principle that something depends on
12
4.3
An internal frame of parts that gives shape and strength to a building or machine
6
5.7
A wide base under a building that spreads its weight
1
4.0
A part that holds something and keeps it upright, like columns or a skeleton
1
7.3
The strong base under a building that holds it up
1
8.9
A layer under something that forms its base, like rock under ruins
1
6.0
A strong metal part under a car that supports the engine and body
The lowest part of a building that supports it
Antonyms
How Supportive
18
4.2
- Specialized
127
3.6
- Formal
12
5.0
4
7.2
29
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word substructure combines sub- meaning 'under', as in the word subway, and structure meaning 'something built or put together'. So a substructure is the part under a building or system that supports and holds it up.