Concept cluster: The Elements > Support or base
n
(architecture) That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
n
(figuratively) Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
v
To put in a position that is not prominent.
n
(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
n
(figuratively) A basis or foundation.
adj
Divulging or reporting hidden workings.
adv
Later in the same text.
adv
Taking place underneath an online article, video or other item of content, as part of a comments section or related discussion forum.
v
(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
n
(computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
n
(countable) A boundary or accepted division; a border.
n
A person who is most concerned with the bottom line.
adv
Created or built in a steady, step-by-step fashion.
n
(figuratively) Daydreaming.
adj
Made fiducial
n
(countable, obsolete, also figuratively) A basis or foundation; a support.
n
The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
n
(UK, slang, humorous) A gap year.
v
To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
n
(slang) the state of (a teenager etc) being grounded
n
The act or process of drawing inward.
adj
Having been drawn in or inward.
n
A situation or position beneath.
adj
Going or directed inward, entering.
adj
Of a house: built on low foundations.
n
(cartography) An administrative or property boundary on a map.
n
The limits of a piece of land as defined by reference to lines and/or points on the land.
n
(architecture) The lowest projecting part of a baseboard, a pedestal or a similar construct.
adj
Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
v
To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.
n
The state of lying under something else.
v
(architecture) to lower the rise of an arch
n
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
adj
Alternative spelling of under the table; in attributive use.
v
(accounting) To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.
n
(literally, figuratively) An underlying or supportive framework or similar structure.
v
(figuratively) To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
n
Synonym of undertone (“colour that is pale or seen underneath another”)
n
One who underlays.
v
Misconstruction of underlain
n
That which underlies.
adj
lying underneath
n
The lower rim or margin of something.
n
The quality of being underneath.
v
(transitive) To divide (a part) and assign subordinate portions of it.
n
One who, or that which, underpins.
n
(figuratively, humorous) The lower body or legs.
n
The lower portion of something; the underneath.
n
An underline.
v
To prop or support.
n
Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal.
n
(figuratively) Subordinate and underlying idea, meaning or atmosphere; undertone.
n
The supporting structure underneath something, such as a vehicle or bridge.
v
To accompany as an undertone.
n
A word placed below another, either literally or metaphorically: a subtext; an inadequate or subordinate term or description; a secret word or phrase; a watchword
n
lower or underlying workings
n
A person who comes from uptown.

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