understructure
Americannoun
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a structure serving as a support; a base or foundation.
The building has a strong understructure.
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any thing, condition, etc., establishing support; a basis.
an argument that rests on a sound understructure of knowledge.
Etymology
Origin of understructure
Example Sentences
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That understructure involved rings of gelatinous, squishy Orbeez balls in a mix of water and glycerin.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023
Crappie are fair with minnows and jigs understructure.
From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2020
The 2016 Volt is the first full redesign of the car, including a new understructure, bodyshell, interior, engine, Voltec powertrain, and upgraded battery.
From Forbes • Dec. 31, 2014
When I wrote The Sportswriter, I was writing with a loose understructure that only I knew about and that probably isn’t detectable by the reader.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2014
He dried him with the blanket, kneeling there in the glow of the light with the shadow of the bridge’s understructure broken across the palisade of treetrunks beyond the creek.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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