Meaning of foundation | Babel Free

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1. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
   countable, uncountable
2. Inferior part of a construction that endures and stabilises to the rest of the structure.
3. a person who founds a school, college, organization etc. We commemorate the founder of the school. stigter مؤَسِّس основател fundador zakladatel der Gründer grundlægger; stifter ιδρυτήςfundador asutaja بنیان گذار perustaja fondateur/-trice מייסד संस्थापक utemeljitelj, osnivač alapító pendiri stofnandi fondatore, fondatrice 設立者 설립자 įkūrėjas dibinātājs; pamatlicējs pengasas stichtergrunnlegger, stifterfundacja موسس fundador fondator основатель zakladateľ, -ka ustanovitelj osnivač grundare ผู้ก่...
   etc
4. Supposed or principles that serve like base, or motivation to ideas or opinions.
5. 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.
   countable, uncountable
6. The founding of the organization took place a long time ago. stigting تأسيس базиране fundação založení die Gründung grundlægning θεμελίωση, ίδρυσηfundación rajamine پی ریزی perustaminen fondationייסוד स्थापक utemeljenje alapozás; alapítás pembentukan stofnun fondazione 設立すること 창립 ákûrimas dibināšana pembentukan stichtinggrunnlegging, opprettingzałożyciel بناكيښودل.پيلول fundação înfiinţare основание založenie ustanovitev osnivanje grundande การก่อตั้ง kurma 建立，成立 засновування بنیاد ڈالنے والا ...
7. Mystic, dedication, discipline.
8. The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
9. The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.
10. 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.
    countable, uncountable
11. 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.
    countable, uncountable
12. Architecture A wall or other structure, as of concrete or masonry, usually extending below ground level and forming the base upon which a building rests.
    Architecture
13. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
    countable, uncountable
14. Something that gives rise to or supports something else. See Synonyms at base1.
15. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
    countable, uncountable
16. Funds for the perpetual support of an institution; an endowment.
17. Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
    countable, uncountable
18. A cosmetic used as a base for facial makeup.
19. A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
    countable, uncountable
20. A supporting undergarment, such as a corset or girdle, designed to give the body a more desirable shape. Also called foundation garment.
    foundation garment
21. that on which something is founded; basis
22. (Building) (often plural) a construction below the ground that distributes the load of a building, wall, etc
    often plural

Equivalents

Examples

“The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty.”

“Aye Madam to be sure that is the Provoking circumstance—without Foundation—yes yes—there's the mortification indeed—for when a slanderous story is believed against one—there certainly is no comfort like the consciousness of having deserved it——”

“Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.”

“The implication is that the Gandhian model of growth is possible, now that Nehru's investment strategy had already laid a strong foundation for economic growth.”

“The foundations of this construction have been laid out.”

““Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.”

“The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of the Wiktionary collaborative project.”

“Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.”

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