Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.
- noun The basis on which a thing stands, is founded, or is supported. synonym: base.
- noun Funds for the perpetual support of an institution; an endowment.
- noun An institution founded and supported by an endowment.
- noun A cosmetic used as a base for facial makeup.
- noun A woman's supporting undergarment, such as a corset or girdle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ship-building, any part of a ship's structure which is built up or specially reinforced to support heavy weights, as engines and boilers, turrets, guns, boat-cranes, etc.
- noun The act of founding, originating, or beginning to raise or build; the act of establishing.
- noun The solid ground or substructure on which the walls of a building rest; also, the lowest division of the building or wall, which is generally below the surface of the ground.
- noun Hence The basis or groundwork of anything; that on which anything stands and by which it is supported or confirmed.
- noun A fund invested for a benevolent or charitable purpose; a donation or legacy for the support of an institution, as a school or hospital, or of some specific object, as a college professorship, a ward in a hospital, etc.; an endowment.
- noun That which is founded or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- noun In crochet, knitting, etc., the first stitches put upon the needles, to which all that follows is secured.
- noun Same as
foundation-muslin and -net. - noun In apiculture, a sheet of wax, artificially shaped to resemble the foundation of a comb, attached to the slats or bars of a hive, or placed in a honey-frame, to induce the bees to build combs where desired; a guide-comb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
- noun That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.
- noun (Arch.) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under
Base , n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. - noun A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- noun That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- noun See Base course, under
Base , n. - noun an open-worked gummed fabric used for stiffening dresses, bonnets, etc.
- noun in England, an endowed school.
- noun to be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
founding , fixing, establishing, or beginning toerect . - noun That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure;
groundwork ; basis;underbuilding . - noun architecture The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
- noun A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- noun That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- noun cosmetics
Cosmetic cream roughlyskin -colored , designed to make theface appear uniform in color andtexture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lowest support of a structure
- noun an institution supported by an endowment
- noun the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- noun education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
- noun a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
- noun the basis on which something is grounded
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Bush tells another bald-faced whopper, claims he has laid the 'foundation of peace'! 2008
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All cards in the Army and Navy are equally available if played in pairs (_i. e._, one black and one red), but no card of either color can be played on a foundation _unless a card of the other color is played at the same time on another foundation_.
Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games Adelaide Cadogan
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But its main foundation is a realisation that in fact Britain is a part of Europe, whether we like it or not; that what happens in Europe affects our destiny profoundly, as two world wars have witnessed; and that we deceive ourselves if we pretend otherwise.
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So I decided to look up the term foundation on the online Oxford English Dictionary.
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This foundation is the largest funding source for radical anti-gun groups in the country.
Why Are The Ammo Shelves Empty? What, Exactly, Are People Afraid Of? 2009
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This foundation is the largest funding source for radical anti-gun groups in the country.
Why Are The Ammo Shelves Empty? What, Exactly, Are People Afraid Of? 2009
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Filing the brief isn ` t the only FSF contribution, p2pnet noted, pointing out the foundation is also working with Recording Industry vs The People ` s Ray Beckerman on the expert witness fund, which has helped RIAA victim Jamie Thomas, among others.
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Here's the thing - one of the claims of this foundation is a 16-hour time frame in which it promises to stay put.
Ethical Testing kittenpie 2007
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Here's the thing - one of the claims of this foundation is a 16-hour time frame in which it promises to stay put.
Archive 2007-02-01 kittenpie 2007
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What really shook me from my foundation is the fact that there really were 12 awesome tips, things fathers would never figure out on their own.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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A foundation model is anymodel that is trained on broad data (generally using self-supervision at scale) that can be adapted(e.g., fine-tuned) to a wide range of downstream tasks; current examples include BERT [Devlin et al .2019], GPT-3 [Brown et al . 2020], and CLIP [Radford et al . 2021].
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Many of these models are described as foundation models. This term, coined in 2021 by researchers at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, broadly describes AI models that acquire the capacity to perform well across a range of different problems through a process of ‘pretraining’ on enormous unannotated datasets.
Foundation models build on ChatGPT tech to learn the fundamental language of biology - Nature Biotechnology Michael Eisenstein 2024
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