Substructure

Definition: Substructure

Substructure

Noun

1. The basic structure or features of a system or organization.

2. Lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "substructure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Note: Substructure \Sub*struc"ture\, noun. [Prefix sub- structure.]. (Websters 1913)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Substructure

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.

Books

• Advances in Multifield Theories of Continua With Substructure (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology) (reference)

• Bridge Engineering: Substructure Design (reference)

• Construction Technology Vol. 1: Substructure, Superstructure, Finishings, Fittings, Water and Drains (reference)

• Jesus Our High Priest: Ps 110,4 As The Substructure Of Heb 5,1-7,28 (reference)

• Moses' Veil and the Glory of the New Covenant: The Exegetical Substructure of II Cor. 3,1-4,6 (Analecta Biblica, Vol 116) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

themel (base, bedrock, footing, foundation, foundations, groundwork, juice, quiddity, radical, reason, substratum), bazë (alkali, base, bases, basis, bedrock, bottom, evidence, foundation, grassroots, ground, groundwork, juice, radix, reason, score, seminal, substratum, ultimate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قاعدة في الحاسوب, ‏أساس (armature, base, basis, bottom, crux, footing, foundation, fundament, ground, grounding, grounds, pedestal, roadbed, rock, structure, subsoil, substratum), ‏بنية (armature, build, construction, fabric, figure, format, formation, framework, gestalt, make up, organism, structure, texture). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фундамент (base, bedding, foundation), основа (accidence, alkali, base, basis, bed, foot, footing, foundation, fundamental, grounding, groundwork, joint, lye, pedestal, radix, seat, seating, sole, staff, stem, substratum, theme, underpinning, warp, warp and woof), долно строене. (various references)

Chinese 

亚�"构. (various references)

Czech

spodní konstrukce, spodek (bottom, Jack, knave, underneath). (various references)

Danish

understøtningskonstruktion (structure along the line), underbygning (podium, podium block, sub-base), grundvaerk, funderingsarbejde (foundation work). (various references)

Dutch

ondersteunings-constructie, ondergrondse werken (foundation work), onderbouw (earthworks). (various references)

Finnish

pohja-ja maarakennustyö (foundation work), perustustyö (foundation work), perustus (base, basis, foundation, groundwork), perusrakenne, alusrakenne (substrate). (various references)

French

infrastructure (sub-base, subgrade, subsoil). (various references)

German

Unterbau (substruction), Grundlage (base, basis, datum, element, foundation, fundamental, fundamentals, gist, groundwork, root position, scaffolding). (various references)

Greek 

υποδομή (infrastructure). (various references)

Hungarian

alapozás (bedding, coating, dead colour, foundation, ground, ground coat, grounding, groundwork, undercoat). (various references)

Italian

struttura d'appoggio, sottostruttura, opere di genio civile (foundation work), opere di fondazione (foundation work), infrastruttura (infrastructure), fondazioni, fondazione (establishment, flotation, foundation, founding). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

下部構� , 下部 (lower part, manservant, servant, subordinate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かぶ�"うぞう, かぶ (lower part, share, singing and dancing, stock, stump, subordinate, turnip). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubstructuresay

Portuguese

infra-estrutura (infrastructure), base (base, basis, bed, foot, foothold, foundation, founding, fund, fundamental, ground, grounding, groundwork, hornbook, patten, pedestal, principle, radical, root, sabot, seat, sinew, sole, stool, substruction), alicerce (basis, bed, bedrock, bottom, foundation, groundwork, substruction). (various references)

Russian 

фундамент (base, basement, bed, bedding, bottom, footing, foundation, groundwork, sole, substruction), основание (account, base, bases, basis, bed, bedding, bottom, cause, establishment, evidence, foot, foundation, ground, grounding, pedestal, radices, radix, raison, reason, sole, subbase, substratum, underlay). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podstruktura, podgradnja. (various references)

Spanish

infraestructura (infrastructure). (various references)

Swedish

underbyggnad (foundation, subgrade(U.S.A.)). (various references)

Turkish

temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, bread and butter, constitutive, corner stone, elemental, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundament, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, primary, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, socle, staple, substratum, underlying, working), taban (base, basement, bedrock, floor, fundament, girder, sill, sole, substratum), altyapı (infra-structure). (various references)

Ukrainian

фундамент (base, basement, basis, bedding, bottom, footing, foundation, ground, groundwork, substruction), основа (backbone, base, basement, bases, basis, bottom, carcass, chain, foot, groundwork, pedestal, pediment, principle, root, source, substratum, underlay). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nền (base, platform, substruction, tasty), móng cơ sở hạ tầng (substruction). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "substructure": substructures. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: structures.

-3 letters: structure.

-4 letters: becrusts, bursters, buttress, scutters, subcutes, trusters.

-5 letters: becrust, becurst, burster, busters, butters, crusets, curbers, cursers, curtest, cutters, scutter, subsect, subtest, sutures, trusser, truster, turrets, usurers.

+1 letter: substructures.