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单词 substructure
释义

substructuren.

Brit. /ˈsʌbˌstrʌktʃə/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌstrək(t)ʃər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, structure n.
Etymology: < sub- prefix + structure n. Compare earlier substruction n.
1. The basis or foundation of something abstract, immaterial, or intellectual; the underlying structure of a system of ideas, culture, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [noun] > condition of being placed under > that which lies under > base on which a thing rests
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groundc950
base?c1335
standinga1382
foundation1398
basingc1400
bottom1440
subjecta1500
groundworka1557
basis?a1560
pedestal1563
understand1580
footwork1611
centrea1616
underwork1624
skaddle1635
substructure1641
foot piece1657
pediment1660
seat1661
sedes1662
under-warp1668
plantationa1680
terrace1735
substructure1789
footing1791
seating1805
1641 W. Montagu Coppy of Let. 13 Those substructures of Popery opposed, some by one man, some by an other.
a1733 S. Harris Comm. 53rd Chap. Isa. (1735) Pref. 16 A Substructure of their Chronology, Geography, and History.
1790 E. Ledwich Antiq. Ireland 2 Writers..made the substructure of their reputation, a thorough acquaintance with classic authors.
1851 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 19: Pt. i 7 The kingdom of Menes..rests upon a venerable substructure of several centuries of the Nile valley.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) i. viii. 73 No decisive anticipation of immortality for mankind as a substructure for religious faith can be deduced.
1920 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism (1929) II. iv. xv. 314 They could not have stood yet a clear-cut socialist programme, based on the theory of class warfare or any other doctrinal substructure.
1979 A. Storr Art of Psychotherapy iii. 21 Enquiry revealed a paranoid substructure to his phobic state.
2008 Church Times 7 Mar. 33/4 The Narnia books by C. S. Lewis received, on the whole, a critical kicking, its Christian substructure undercutting its value as a work of fiction.
2.
a. Architecture. The lower or supporting part of a building or other construction; (sometimes) spec. the foundations.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > foundation(s)
staddlea900
ground-stathelnessa1300
foundation1398
groundsel1433
ground-pinning1448
underpinning1538
groundworka1557
footing1611
substruction1624
under-filling1624
substructure1726
found1818
pinninga1825
well1832
soling1838
masonite1840
ground-statheling-
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. iii. ix. 48/2 These..Stones must be..well link'd with the under Courses, so as to make a kind of pavement at top to..protect the Substructure [It. quasi che..si coprano le cose murate di sotto; L. ut quasi superaddito pavimento subinstructa operiantur].
1840 H. W. Longfellow Skeleton in Armour Introd. The substructure of a windmill.
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. 89 The moderate scantlings..obviate the risk of the roof crushing down the substructure.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 284/1 The substructure of a bridge consists of foundations, abutments, and piers.
1884 Manch. Examiner 19 Dec. 5/3 The sub-structure of the pier.
1930 Engineering 18 Apr. 503/3 All substructure and false work were removed.
1954 R. Wailes Eng. Windmill i. 8 The tall brick roundhouse at Saxtead Green..protects the substructure of the mill.
2007 Archit. Rev. Feb. 76/2 Because the walkway itself is narrower than the substructure,..users cannot peer directly downward.
b. gen. The supporting structure or base of something, esp. a natural feature.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [noun] > condition of being placed under > that which lies under > base on which a thing rests
staddlea900
groundc950
base?c1335
standinga1382
foundation1398
basingc1400
bottom1440
subjecta1500
groundworka1557
basis?a1560
pedestal1563
understand1580
footwork1611
centrea1616
underwork1624
skaddle1635
substructure1641
foot piece1657
pediment1660
seat1661
sedes1662
under-warp1668
plantationa1680
terrace1735
substructure1789
footing1791
seating1805
1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire II. 8 The substructure, or natural materials of which these hills are composed, can only be guest at.
1826 Monthly Rev. Apr. 408 Still the coral insect, the diminutive builder of all these mighty piles, is at work: the ocean is intersected with myriads of those lines of foundation; and when the rocky substructure shall have excluded the sea, then will come the dominion of man.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvii. 271 This glacier..sloped gradually upward..and then, following the irregularities of its rocky sub-structure, suddenly became a steep crevassed hill.
1935 Geogr. Rev. 25 180 The rocky substructure, the soil mantle, or the vegetation cover of the earth's surface.
2002 E. P. Miller Vegetative Soul v. 141 Both the animal and the plant, then, carry death within them, the plant in its woody substructure, the animal in its skeleton.
3. A structure, or set of structures, forming part of a larger whole; a component. Also as a mass noun: structures of this kind.
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1896 L. F. Ward in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 2 243 There is always danger of overlooking the true character of structures. They are almost always composite and consist of what may be called substructures.
1913 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S. 49 583 The branch of this ramus which innervates internal substructures bends towards the interior of the body.
1944 Sociometry 7 311 Group substructures such as cliques.
1963 Nature 18 May 651/2 If the flashes are real, either the optical source itself is of the order of light-days in size, or..it must contain substructures of this scale.
1972 Physics Bull. June 349/1 Although it is comforting and often convenient to consider the proton and neutron as elementary particles with no internal substructure, they are in fact particles in a state of continual change.
1981 D. J. Bellamy & T. J. Bellamy Bellamy's Backyard Safari 16 Monera are all prokaryotes, one characteristic of which is that their cells lack internal substructures called organelles.
2009 B. D. Cullity & C. D. Graham Introd. Magn. Materials (ed. 2) iv. 134 The 2p subshell is actually composed of three sub-subshells..each capable of holding two electrons; the 3d subshell has a similar kind of substructure.

Derivatives

ˈsubstructured adj. having a substructure or foundation (of a specified kind); usually figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > relating to or forming a base > having a (specific) base
footedOE
standing1412
well-couchedc1475
bottomed1582
baseda1616
foundeda1616
well-bottomeda1628
well-founded1671
clawed1768
claw-feet1823
substructured1952
1952 H. H. Gerth & D. A. Martindale tr. M. Weber Anc. Judaism iii. x. 254 Babylonia and Egypt knew no unified, religiously substructured [Ger. fundamentierte] ethic.
1958 H. H. Gerth & D. A. Martindale tr. M. Weber Relig. India iv. 147 A metaphysically and cosmologically substructured [Ger. unterbaute] technology of the means to achieve salvation from this world.
1970 Evergreen Rev. June 40/2 In making Events, there was no substructured dramatic relationship between characters.
2001 Oikos 94 94/2 Differences in demographic rates have already been used to investigate the population dynamics of a substructured, but continuous, population.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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