substructure
Origin of substructure
1Other words from substructure
- sub·struc·tur·al, adjective
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How to use substructure in a sentence
Fatigue cracks in steel or shear cracks in concrete may be present, or scour may have removed substructure support.
A bridge too far: Jeffries doubles the number of ‘structurally deficient’ bridges | Glenn Kessler | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostWorkers continued scraping and drilling into the substructure of the monument as darkness began to fall.
The statue of Robert E. Lee is gone, but the mystery of the time capsule persists | Gregory S. Schneider | September 9, 2021 | Washington PostIt was pulled down in 1547, but the substructure was left standing, and some private houses were erected upon it.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. | Hartley WithersThe side facing the north rested upon a solid substructure of hard blocks of hewn stone washed by the waves.
Arachne, Complete | Georg EbersIt is indeed the foundation, the substructure of a plant, but not strictly the first thing that starts to grow.
Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 | Various
Early in September the first brick of my new National Opera-house, prior to the commencement of the substructure, was laid.
The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I | James H. MaplesonThe street at this point is (or was) obviously supported upon a masonry substructure, upon which the houses abut.
Thomas Hardy's Dorset | Robert Thurston Hopkins
British Dictionary definitions for substructure
/ (ˈsʌbˌstrʌktʃə) /
a structure, pattern, etc, that forms the basis of anything
a structure forming a foundation or framework for a building or other construction
Derived forms of substructure
- substructural, adjective
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