Foundation

What do we mean by foundation?

The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance. noun

The basis on which a thing stands, is founded, or is supported. synonym: base. noun

Funds for the perpetual support of an institution; an endowment. noun

An institution founded and supported by an endowment. noun

A cosmetic used as a base for facial makeup. noun

A woman's supporting undergarment, such as a corset or girdle. noun

In ship-building, any part of a ship's structure which is built up or specially reinforced to support heavy weights, as engines and boilers, turrets, guns, boat-cranes, etc. noun

The act of founding, originating, or beginning to raise or build; the act of establishing. noun

The solid ground or substructure on which the walls of a building rest; also, the lowest division of the building or wall, which is generally below the surface of the ground. noun

Hence The basis or groundwork of anything; that on which anything stands and by which it is supported or confirmed. noun

A fund invested for a benevolent or charitable purpose; a donation or legacy for the support of an institution, as a school or hospital, or of some specific object, as a college professorship, a ward in a hospital, etc.; an endowment. noun

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

In crochet, knitting, etc., the first stitches put upon the needles, to which all that follows is secured. noun

Same as foundation-muslin and -net. noun

In apiculture, a sheet of wax, artificially shaped to resemble the foundation of a comb, attached to the slats or bars of a hive, or placed in a honey-frame, to induce the bees to build combs where desired; a guide-comb. noun

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

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; groundwork; basis. noun

The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. noun

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

Cover up is a more common word and it is used to make someone's skin look flawless. Urban Dictionary

When used excessively, it can make your face look like a shiny orange orb. Whenever you can tell that someone is wearing foundation, they are wearing too much. Sometimes when not rubbed in correctly, over-applied, or the person in question has applied the wrong shade, they can get the mask effect. Foundation is used excessively by teenage girls, specifically bro ho's and girls who work in Abercrombie. Urban Dictionary

Girls wear it. Mostly worn with other forms of makeup. Can come in a cream, or as powder. Used to make skin seem perfect and fault-less. Applying too much makes them look like slutty fake barbie-dolls. But foundation is good if you want to hide freckles and blemishes. Urban Dictionary

It is the lowest level of 'smartness' at standard grade level and is used to abbreviate someone being in a foundation class (stupid class) with the use of the single word 'foundation' or shortened to 'foundy'. It can also be used to describe someone's actions to be like those of a person in a foundation class. Urban Dictionary

A huge amount of makeup to conceal or to make an ugly girl look more respectable. Urban Dictionary

N. a term used widely until the 1970s to describe various women's undergarments such as girdles, bustles, corsets, etc. Girdles and corsets slimmed down the moderately obese lady who could tolerate them. Corsets also gave an hourglass figure to a thin person, such as Scarlett O'hara. Urban Dictionary

The Foundation Leader of The Seven Urban Dictionary

To bicker in an online chat room, such as on a DC hub, or IRC channel. Urban Dictionary

A secret society of Masons & Millers formed in pre-colonial Eastern Pennsylvania. They subscribe to a philosophy of Eastern altruistic determinism also known as EAD. Their original endowment of $90,000 was given by William Penn along with a small plot of land along the Lehigh River corridor. Urban Dictionary

The initial period of dating where one lays the foundation for a relationship Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to foundation:
foundation, inundation, foundations, fecundation, mundation, frondation, exundation, refoundation, fundacion, groundation.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word foundation:
philanthropic, charitable, nonprofit, endowment, fellowship, grants, laid, charity, foundations, trust, supports, stone, fund, donated, trustees, aims, organization, funded, grant, awareness, advisory, funds, scholarship, excellence, initiative, organisation, educational, promote, roof.

Words that rhyme with foundation:
communication, information, operation, education, implication, station, innovation, organization, application, consideration, accommodation, association, relation, connotation, aberration, corporation, aspiration, orientation, remuneration, consternation, correlation, alliteration, administration, trepidation, obligation, discrimination, generation, reconciliation, inspiration, situation, revelation, evaluation, determination, civilization, nation, vacation, collaboration, radiation, motivation, integration, abomination, precipitation, appreciation, gentrification, dissertation, collocation, designation, interpretation, compensation, ramification, conversation, configuration, proliferation, expectation, manifestation, indignation, litigation, cooperation, notation, inclination, pronunciation, anticipation, deviation, implementation, approbation, sensation, altercation, constellation, affirmation, remediation, reputation, transportation, vocation, obfuscation, representation, medication, transformation, translation, conservation, adaptation, presentation, population, conflagration, reservation, dedication, citation, salvation, rehabilitation, location, meditation, preparation, observation, segregation, articulation, variation, abbreviation, quotation, edification, mitigation, avocation.

Adjectives that are often used to describe foundation:
solid, very, firm, good, theoretical, strong, only, sure, real, sound, economic, concrete, private, scientific, true, necessary, basic, legal, historical, philosophical, moral, secure, broad, proper, religious, better, original, essential, sufficient, rational, empirical, stable, conceptual, spiritual, adequate, ultimate, firmer, intellectual, ideological, logical, sole, substantial, slightest, charitable, weak, excellent, educational, permanent, mathematical, psychological, theological, ethical, shaky, elastic, metaphysical, indispensable, biological, stronger, nonprofit, least, slight, ontological, objective, royal, sandy, biblical, broader, insecure, deeper.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective foundation:
interaction, stress, stones.

Consonant match to foundation:
fundacion.

Words that sound like foundation:
foundation, fundacion, foundations, phonation, phoenician, foundational, phenician, feneration, vendition, fondren, fondon, fountain, federation, fantasia, finden, phonetician, fecundation, fire nation, phaeacian, fondling, the nation, condition, inundation, tentation, cantation, venation, groundation, condicion, thunderation, formation, finishing, founding, fontaine, foundling, fonction, foundering, fontane, fontan, fonteyn, findling, fountaining, function, rendition, fandom, phantasm, fermentation, fiendish, fenton, flotation, mentation, floatation, phoenicia, fenian, phoenicians, fellation, fantasm, foliation, finton, fountaine, funktion, finian, fiendishly, fintan, finnian, fantan, laudation, connation, fenderson, fanchon, dentation, filiation, fomentation, flammation, fedayeen, funeration, fasciation.