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Understructure

Definition: Understructure

Understructure

Noun

1. 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.
 


Synonyms: Understructure

Synonyms: base (n), foot (n), foundation (n), fundament (n), groundwork (n), substructure (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Understructure

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Misspellings: Understructure

Misspellings

"Understructure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: interstructure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Understructure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-r-r-r-s-t-t-u-u-u"

-2 letters: restructured, unstructured.

-3 letters: restructure.

-4 letters: structured.

-5 letters: decurrent, encrusted, entrusted, nurturers, recurrent, resurrect, returners, scuttered, structure, surrender, undercuts, unsecured.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Understructure


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 64 65 72 73 74 72 75 63 74 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -..    .    .-.    ...    -    .-.    ..-    -.-.    -    ..-    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#117 &#99 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0073 0074 0072 0075 0063 0074 0075 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580707184858684876986878471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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