foundation
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Definitions offoundation
- The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
Synonyms: establishment
Example: "The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty."
- 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; underbuilding.
Synonyms: basis, groundwork
- The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
Synonyms: groundwork, platform, stage
- In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
- 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.
Synonyms: base, groundwall
Example: "The foundations of this construction have been laid out."
- A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
Example: "The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of the Wiktionary collaborative project."
- Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
- A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
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