Definitions
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- noun The supporting
structure underneath something, such as avehicle orbridge .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lowest support of a structure
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those were largely made with plastic and an understructure made of chicken wire and wood covered with polyethylene.
Marina Cashdan: Lynda Benglis, Shape Shifter and Influencer Marina Cashdan 2011
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Those were largely made with plastic and an understructure made of chicken wire and wood covered with polyethylene.
Marina Cashdan: Lynda Benglis, Shape Shifter and Influencer Marina Cashdan 2011
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Few paved stretches remained, but the tightly compacted understructure still provided a better surface than the rough soil of the fields to either side.
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Few paved stretches remained, but the tightly compacted understructure still provided a better surface than the rough soil of the fields to either side.
PodCastle » PodCastle 92: Sir Hereward and Mr. Fitz Go to War Again 2010
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Also, I try to indicate that when the sun is backlighting it, you can see the understructure of the blimp.
Finished shading concept for the Zepplin Glenn Kim 2010
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The situation seemed safe, so I moved near one of the larger holes in the understructure and let him run ahead on the lead.
Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010
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In one image, we see only a close-up of the honeycombed understructure of MIT's Simmons Hall.
Fashion, Fa Lisa Rossi 2010
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He has an intuitive feel for the understructure of society, of the desires and contradictions on which it rests.
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He held that it was as impossible for a painter to try to repaint a head where the understructure was wrong, as for a sculptor to remodel the features of a head that has not been understood in the mass.
Archive 2009-11-01 James Gurney 2009
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He held that it was as impossible for a painter to try to repaint a head where the understructure was wrong, as for a sculptor to remodel the features of a head that has not been understood in the mass.
Sargent's Repainting James Gurney 2009
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