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Definitions: Bedrock |
BedrockNoun1. Solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil. 2. Principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bedrock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
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Computing | Bedrock A C++ class library for Macintosh user interface portability. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Electrical Engineering | A bedrock is a layer of rock of low permeability underlying the aquifer(as opposed to"cap rock", cf. No 5404). Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | Consolidated rock below loose superficial material such as soil, glacial drift, or alluvium. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Rock of relatively great thickness and extent in its native location. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | The uppermost strongly consolidated geological formation above the baserock, which exhibits contrast in mechanical properties to overlying deposits and is homogenoous. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Solid rock underlying the overburden of weathered, and partially weathered, unconsolidated material at the Earth's surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Solid rock covered by loose material or appearing on the surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geological | Relatively hard, solid rock that commonly underlies softer rock, sediment, or soil; a subset of the basement. (references) |
| The solid rock that lies beneath soil and other loose surface materials. (references) | |
Hydrologic | The solid rock beneath the soil and superficial rock. A general term for solid rock that lies beneath soil, loose sediments, or other unconsolidated material. (references) |
Mining | Any solid rock exposed at the surface of the earth or overlain by unconsolidated material. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. Solid rock exposed at the surface of the Earth or overlain by unconsolidated material, weathered rock, or soil. b. In Australia, the stratum upon which the wash dirt rests is usually called bedrock. It usually consists of granite or boulder clay (glacial) and, much more rarely, basalt. When the stratum consists of slates or sandstones (Silurian or Ordovician), it is usually called reef rock c. A general term for the rock, usually solid, that underlies soil or other unconsolidated, superficial material. A British syn. of the adjectival form is "solid," as in solid geology. See:stonehea J., 1 c. A general term for the rock, usually solid, that underlies soil or other unconsolidated, superficial material. A British syn. of the adjectival form is "solid," as in solid geology. See:stonehea. (references) | |
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Synonyms: BedrockSynonyms: basic principle (n), basics (n), fundamental principle (n), fundamentals (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Base | Noun: base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard, mopboard; bedrock, hardpan; foundation; (support); substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge. |
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Crosswords: Bedrock |
| English words defined with "bedrock": C horizon, C-horizon ♦ subsoil ♦ undersoil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bedrock": alluvial tin ♦ bedrock test, block field, block sea, blockmeer, boom ditch ♦ chaos of rocks, concrete caisson sinking, costean pit ♦ duty of giants, duty of the miner's inch ♦ erratic block, erratic boulder ♦ felsenmeer ♦ geobotanical prospecting, glacial erratic, glacial overburden, gravel pumping ♦ hamada, hamadet, hammada, hammadah, hammadat, high reef ♦ jet corer ♦ karst, kong ♦ Larson ledge finder, ledge rock ♦ mountain-top detritus ♦ nedj ♦ overburden drilling ♦ permafrost drilling, pipe bit, pit sampling, prospect drill panner ♦ reef drive, regolith, rimrock, rock desert, rockhead ♦ set casing shoe, solid rock, spud bit, spudded-in, spudding boreholes, stone field, stray block, superficial deposit, surficial deposit ♦ terra rossa, testing bedrock ♦ weathered layer. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Bedrock (1930) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Morse River Inlet showing tidal marsh with bedrock exposed on the periphery.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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Economic History | Bahrain | The construction of the causeway also reportedly penetrated the bedrock, further damaging the aquifer. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Since the colonial period, the export of tropical agricultural products has been the bedrock of Cte d'Ivoire's economy. (references) | |
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Gerald Ford | In exactly eight weeks we have demonstrated to the world that our great republic stands solid, stands strong upon the bedrock of the Constitution. |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We're seeing rededication to bedrock values of faith, family, work, neighborhood, peace, and freedom--values that help bring us together as one people, from the youngest child to the most senior citizen. |
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| "Bedrock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.42% of the time. "Bedrock" is used about 153 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.42% | 146 | 26,107 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.96% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.31% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.65% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.65% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 153 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Bedrock, CO |
Expressions using "bedrock": bedrock price ♦ get down to bedrock ♦ reach bedrock. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bedrock | 105 |
bedrock city flintstone | 17 |
bedrock city | 17 |
bedrock record | 14 |
bedrock lawn border | 6 |
bedrock industry | 6 |
bedrock flintstone | 5 |
bedrock stone | 5 |
bedrock city comic | 5 |
bedrock campground city flintstone | 5 |
bedrock comic | 4 |
bedrock home | 4 |
bedrock drive shoes well | 4 |
bedrock dakota south | 4 |
anthem bedrock | 3 |
the north face bedrock | 3 |
bedrock cafe | 3 |
bedrock font | 3 |
bedrock pet | 3 |
amps bedrock | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bedrock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bazë (alkali, base, bases, basis, bottom, evidence, foundation, grassroots, ground, groundwork, juice, radix, reason, score, seminal, substratum, substructure, ultimate), themel (base, footing, foundation, foundations, groundwork, juice, quiddity, radical, reason, substratum, substructure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حجر الأساس, صخر الأديم, الطبقة السفلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | здрава основна маса, здрава основа. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 底. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skála (rock, Scaur), podstata (being, essence, essentiality, gist, guts, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nubble, pith, principle, quintessence, spirit, substance, substantiality), jádro (core, essence, guts, inside, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nubble, nucleus, pip, pith, quintessence, seed, stone, substance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bed-rock, underliggende impermeabel bjergart, underliggende bjergart, klippeundergrund (bed-rock, ledge), klippebund (main bottom), grundfjeld (basal complex, basement, basement complex, basement rock, bed-rock, bur, burr, country rock, enclosing rock, fundamental complex, ledge, main bottom, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), fjeld (bed-rock, ledge), fast fjeld, fast bjergart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vaste rots, vast gesteente (bed-rock, ledge, main bottom), rotsbodem (main bottom, rocky bottom, stony bottom), rotsachtige ondergrond (bed-rock, ledge), ondoorlatende basislaag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پایه (Base, Basis, Buttress, Cantilever, Column, Degree, Ground, Groundwork, Leg, Mark, Measure, Mount, Outrigger, Phase, Pillar, Prop, Root, Sill, Stage, Stalk, Stanchion, Status, Stock, Stratum), سنگی که درزیرطبقه سطحی زمین واقع است , اساس (Base, Basis, Cornerstone, Element, Fabric, Ground, Groundwork, Nucleus, Root). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | peruskallio (basal complex, basement, basement complex, basement rock, bed-rock, fundamental complex, ground-rock, ledge, main bottom, primary rock, primitive rock), kallioperä (bed-rock, ledge, main bottom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soubassement (bed rock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Grundgestein (solid rock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στρώμα βράχου (bed-rock, ledge), στεγανó δάπεδο, μητρικός βράχος (bed-rock, ledge), μητρικό πέτρωμα (bed-rock, ledge, main bottom, primary rock, primitive rock), πέτρωμα υπόβαθρου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אבן יסו" (corner stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alapvetõ (abecedarian, basal, basic, elementary, essential, fundamental, ground, primal, quintessential, radical), alapok (foundations, prime agent, prime cause, prime motive, rationale), alapkõzet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bedrock (main bottom), basamento roccioso, substrato roccioso (solid rock), strato roccioso nel sottosuolo, roccia madre (bed-rock, ledge), roccia in posto (main bottom, solid rock), roccia fresca (main bottom), roccia di posto, roccia di letto, roccia di base (bed-rock, ledge), formazione impermeabile basale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 岩盤 , 岩床 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | が"しょう (burned down, complete victory, entirely destroyed, magma, outpost, precedent, previous existence, prior chapter, reef), が"ば". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bun-charrick. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edrockbay substrato rochoso, rocha-mãe do solo (main bottom), rocha-mãe (bed-rock, ledge), rocha cama, leito de rocha firme, fundamento (base, basement, footing, foundation, fundament, ground, grounding, groundwork, horned, pedestal, warrant, warranty), firme (bed-rock, compact, consistent, deep-seated, die hard, fadeless, fast, firm, fixed, hard, inflexible, iron, ledge, non-ductile, resolute, rigid, set, settled, sober, solid, stable, steadfast, steady, stern, stiff, strong, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tight, tough, unbending, uncompromising, unfailing, unfaltering, unhesitating, unmoved, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding), escudo rochoso, assentada rochosa (bed-rock, ledge), alicerce (basis, bed, bottom, foundation, groundwork, substruction, substructure), "bed-rock". (various references) strat solid de rocã, rocã-mamã (parent rock). (various references) коренная порода, основные принципы (basic principles, outlines). (various references) temelj (base, basis, foundation, fundament, substruction), stenovito tle. (various references) roca de fondo (main bottom), lecho de roca. (various references) berggrund (bed-rock, ledge, main bottom). (various references) หินแข็งชั้นล่างที่อยู่ใต้ชั้น"ินและทราย, ข้อเท็จจริง (material). (various references) temel kaya, taban (base, basement, floor, fundament, girder, sill, sole, substratum, substructure), son (afterbirth, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, outcome, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot), sarsılmaz (adamantine, immovable, stable, steadfast, steady, unshakable, unshaken, unshrinking, unwavering), köken (authorship, basis, beginning, birth, derivation, descent, etymon, extraction, genesis, lineage, origin, origination, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, radical, root, seeds, spore, spring, wellhead, wellspring, womb), işin gerçeği, işin aslı (lowdown), esaslı (constitutional, essential, true). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bedrock": bedrocks. (additional references) | |
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"Bedrock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badock, Baldernock, baldornock, Barock, Batrouk, Bedrich, bedro, Berck, Berrick, Bezruchka, Bodvoc, Budoch, redrock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bedrock" (pronounced be"drÄ'k) |
| 3 | -r Ä' k | shamrock. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-k-o-r" | |
-1 letter: corked, docker, redock, rocked. | |
-2 letters: bored, brock, broke, coder, coked, cored, credo, decor, dreck, ocker, orbed, robed. | |
-3 letters: beck, bock, bode, bore, bred, cero, code, coed, coke, cord, core, cork, deck, deco, dock, doer, dore, dork, drek, kerb, kore, reck, redo, robe, rock, rode. | |
-4 letters: bed, bod, bro, cob, cod, cor, deb, doc, doe, dor, kob, kor, obe, ode, oke, orb, orc, ore, reb, rec, red, rob, roc, rod, roe. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-k-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bedrocks. | |
+2 letters: blockader. | |
+3 letters: blockaders. | |
+4 letters: backcrossed, backdropped, bloodsucker, cinderblock, crookbacked, goldbricked, roadblocked. | |
+5 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder, bloodsuckers, checkerboard, cinderblocks, stockbreeder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 64 72 6F 63 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.. .-. --- -.-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100100 01110010 01101111 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e d r o c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0064 0072 006F 0063 006B |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36717084816977 |
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