Word Finder - foundation

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The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty.

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• establishment

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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.

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• basis
• groundwork

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The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.

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• groundwork
• platform
• stage

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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.

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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.

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The foundations of this construction have been laid out.

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• base
• groundwall

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A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

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That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.

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Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.

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A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

The Code had always been his foundation in a world that adopted him despite his origins.

Indeed, All Souls was more of a lay foundation than its model.

They loved each other, and that love would be a solid foundation for their marriage.

Forgetful of the tomb, you lay the foundation of your palaces.

The actual result of his personal inquiries, the great idea which lies at the foundation of his philosophy, we know.

He founded no less than three colleges, two at Oxford, one at Higham Ferrers, while there is reason to believe that he suggested and inspired the foundation of Eton and of King's College.

On the 21st of December 1443 he was sworn to the statutes by Bishop Bekynton and the earl of Suffolk, the king's commissioners, and himself administered the oath to the other members of the foundation, then only five fellows and eleven scholars over fifteen years of age.

The breaking up of the old Archean foundation block began in Cambrian and Ordovician times.

Thus the court of king's bench (curia regis de banco) was founded, and the foundation of the court of common pleas was provided for in one of the articles of Magna Carta.

Sir Henry Parkes was elected president, and he moved a series of resolutions embodying the principles necessary to establish, on an enduring foundation, the structure of a federal government.

The principal buildings are the Roman Catholic church, which is the pro-cathedral of the diocese of Killaloe; the parish church formed out of the ruins of the Franciscan Abbey, founded in 1240 by Donough Carbrac O'Brien; a school on the foundation of Erasmus Smith, and various county buildings.

And near the end of 1937, Roosevelt created the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis to join in the fight.

It will be seen that they contain three vowel and six consonant elements, and these formed the foundation for her first real lesson in speaking.

Original foundation stones and remains of the fort itself can be found throughout the property.

The normal polarization at the zenith, as dependent upon the position of the sun, was the foundation of Sir C. Wheatstone's polar clock.

From the time of its foundation as a Greek colony to the present day it has always been a considerable emporium of commerce, and it was for two centuries and a half the capital of an empire.

After the fall of Drogheda Cromwell sent a few troops to relieve Londonderry, and marched himself to Wexford, which he took on the 11th of October, and where similar scenes of cruelty were repeated; every captured priest, to use Cromwell's own words, being immediately "knocked on the head," though the story of the three hundred women slaughtered in the market-place has no foundation.

A new foundation had to be laid on which a new system of legality might be reared.

There is a foundation of schists and crystalline rocks upon which rests a series of sandstones.

This idea was certainly entertained to some extent at the time, and derives some colour of justification from words of Defoe's, but there seems to be no serious foundation for it.

In the western Carpathians the inner zone consists of a foundation of Carboniferous and older rocks, which were folded and denuded before the deposition of the succeeding strata.

In the outer portion of the zone the Permian and Mesozoic beds are crushed and folded against the core of ancient rocks; in the inner portion of the zone they rest upon the old foundation with but little subsequent disturbance.

Eastern theologians expressed the mysterious relationship of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son in such phrases as " Who proceedeth from the Father and receiveth from the Son," rightly making the Godhead of the Father the foundation and primary source of the eternally derived Godhead of the Son and the Spirit.

He laid the foundation of what will probably prove to be a new and more precise form of chemistry (see CHEMISTRY, and MATTER, CONSTITUTION OF).

The fifteen condemnatory clauses, prefacing the sentence at Geneva, set forth in detail that he was guilty of heresies, blasphemously expressed, against the foundation of the Christian religion.

Other churches of very early foundation in Utrecht are the Pieterskerk and the Janskerk.

Maybe it was the emotional high they were feeling because of the babies, but something seemed to have shifted their foundation.

The foundation of the abbey of St Maurice (Agaunum) in the Valais is usually ascribed to Sigismund of Burgundy (515).

He founded the Madrasa or college for Mahommedan education at Calcutta, primarily out of his own funds; and he projected the foundation of an Indian institute in England.

The cylinder is rigidly fixed in the studs C, C, and these are attached to the foundation plate f.

It is pleasant to think that there is foundation for the familiar story of Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe as the Armada was beating up Channel, and finishing his game before tackling the Spaniards.

The foundation of the Burgundian r ule in the Netherlands was laid by the succession of Y Philip the Bold to the counties of Flanders and Artois in 1384 in right of his wife Margaret de Male.

Its foundation dates from the year 1030, while the nave is Romanesque of the middle of the 12th century, with much pointed work.

They had apparently been used as the foundation of a portion of the city wall, reconstructed in A.D.

There appears to be no foundation for the statement that he was stopped by an order of council when on the point of abandoning England for America, though there can be little doubt that the thoughts of emigration suggested themselves to his mind at this period.

If the Rump or the Little Parliament had in a business-like spirit assumed and discharged the functions of a constituent assembly, such a foundation might have been provided.

The foundation of the chapel of the gild of the Holy Cross was laid by Robert de Stratford.

It was this Patrick who laid the foundation of the family fortunes.

The foundation, however, the Mishnah, was the same in both.

The cathedral, a beautiful church, was consecrated in 1084, but of this early building only foundation walls remain; the present structure of brick was begun in 1215, and enlarged and restored at various later dates.

We have seen that this was the case at Athens; it was largely the case in the democratic cantons of Switzerland; indeed the nobility of Rome itself, after the privileges of the patricians were abolished, rested on no other foundation.

It lasted six days (April 28 - May 3), the first day being the anniversary of the foundation of her temple.

It is of comparatively recent foundation (1860), and is carried on largely with French and Belgian capital, with modern appliances and with modern scientific knowledge.

The chief buildings are that containing the town hall and the grammar school (a foundation of 1547), the exchange, a theatre, and the customs house and dock offices.

Specially noteworthy in the Lezioni are the sections on human wants as the foundation of economical theory, on labour as the source of wealth, on personal services as economic factors, and on the united working of the great industrial functions.

He would submit all minor questions to the reason of the individual member, but he set certain limits to toleration, excluding "whatsoever is against the foundation of faith, or contrary to good life and the laws of obedience, or destructive to human society, and the public and just interests of bodies politic."

The relations of this new foundation to the German hospital mentioned in 1143 cannot be traced.

Explanations had indeed been put forward by men as eminent as Berzelius and Liebig, but they lacked experimental foundation.

Vast areas of the country were in fact under the single control of a territorial lord or an ecclesiastical foundation.

As early as 1721 he was seeking to lay the foundation of a scientific explanation of the universe, when he published his Prodromus principiorum rerum naturalium, and had already written his Principia in its first form.