Understructure

Word UNDERSTRUCTURE
Character 14
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Definitions and meanings of "Understructure"

What do we mean by understructure?

The supporting structure underneath something, such as a vehicle or bridge.

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The word "understructure" in example sentences

Those were largely made with plastic and an understructure made of chicken wire and wood covered with polyethylene. ❋ Marina Cashdan (2011)

Few paved stretches remained, but the tightly compacted understructure still provided a better surface than the rough soil of the fields to either side. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also, I try to indicate that when the sun is backlighting it, you can see the understructure of the blimp. ❋ Glenn Kim (2010)

The situation seemed safe, so I moved near one of the larger holes in the understructure and let him run ahead on the lead. ❋ Stanley Coren (2010)

In one image, we see only a close-up of the honeycombed understructure of MIT's Simmons Hall. ❋ Lisa Rossi (2010)

He has an intuitive feel for the understructure of society, of the desires and contradictions on which it rests. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He held that it was as impossible for a painter to try to repaint a head where the understructure was wrong, as for a sculptor to remodel the features of a head that has not been understood in the mass. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

He never attempted to repaint one eye or to raise or lower it, for he held that the construction of a head prepared the place for the eye, and if it was wrongly placed, the understructure was wrong, and he ruthlessly scraped and repainted the head from the beginning. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

These, like the ELT, can be planted in a random pattern, allowing the understructure to disappear, or to made patterns using the grid modules as bitmaps see below. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because I don't believe that the male-female power differential is as severe as some others believe my position is that men control the overstructure, women control the understructure: "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" I think that men and women are perfectly capable of commenting on each other's positions in the world. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

LEMON: You were talking about in the understructure where they found the three bodies first. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It may help to think of our political establishment as an outer veneer, covering an understructure that is unseen and not acknowledged, leading most to assume there is nothing beyond the visible veneer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The understructure seems to vary a lot more than that. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

Talk of a possible division of Jerusalem it was the refusal to do so that the late unlamented Chairman Arafat used previously to start the second intifada that caused many Israeli deaths and destroyed what little economic understructure the Palestinians had has produced a seemingly paradoxical outcome. ❋ Helen (2007)

They are photographable acts, by definition, while understructure is really far easier to pull off in the novel, where the internal monologues of the characters can be endlessly explored. ❋ Steven Barnes (2007)

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