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单词 substruction
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substructionn.

Brit. /səbˈstrʌkʃn/, U.S. /səbˈstrəkʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin substructiōn-, substructiō.
Etymology: < classical Latin substructiōn-, substructiō building of a foundation or substructure, supporting structure, substructure < substruct- , past participial stem of substruere substruct v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Middle French, French substruction (1544 in an apparently isolated attestation in sense ‘foundations of a building, parts of a building which are located below the ground’, subsequently from 1802 in sense ‘building which serves as the foundation or substructure for another building’).
1.
a. Architecture. The foundations or substructure of a building or other construction, esp. (in classical architecture) a substructure which raises the floor of a building above ground level. Frequently in plural.In quot. 1650: (perhaps) an underground construction.
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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-
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 23 We must first examine the Bed of Earth..vpon which we will Build; and then the vnderfillings or Substruction, as the Auncients did call it.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xii. 259 It was contrived into rooms, and fortified with substructions therein, fit for the receipt of a Prince.
1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 22 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 263 A great quadrangular Portico.., whereof the substructions only now remain.
1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor ix. 27 Higher up is the vaulted substruction or basement of a large temple.
1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome I. v. 52 The massy substructions of the Capitoline temple.
a1842 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1843) III. xliii. 91 The road therefore was restored, and supported with solid substructions below.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. 285 A part of this road is still to be seen..with the ruined masses of the immense substructions which supported it.
1898 G. A. Smith Bk. Twelve Prophets II. xxxvii. 530 Upon terraces and substructions of enormous breadth rose storied palaces, arsenals, barracks, libraries, and temples.
1907 E. M. Forster Longest Journey vi. 72 The Fitz William [museum], towering upon immense substructions like any Roman temple.
1993 Papers Brit. School Rome 61 126 The complex,..was a kind of Forum: it had basilica-like colonnades, a Sacred Way leading through a monumental archway to a great Temple high on a substruction, and assembly places for the people and the senate.
b. figurative. A basis, foundation. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun]
ground1340
root1340
substancec1384
fundament1395
foundationc1400
groundment?a1412
footing1440
anvila1450
bottom ground1557
groundwork1557
foot1559
platform1568
subsistence1586
subject matter1600
ground-colour1614
basisa1616
substratum1631
basement1637
bottoma1639
fonda1650
fibre1656
fund1671
fundamen1677
substruction1765
starting ground1802
fundus1839
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. xiii. 405 The laws of Oleron..are received by all nations in Europe as the ground and substruction of all their marine constitutions.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. iv. 51 A substruction and foundation of their new polity.
1825 T. Erskine Ess. Faith (ed. 4) 33 A scaffolding or substruction for the doctrine.
1887 E. Johnson Antiqua Mater 232 The historic ‘substruction’ of a system supported by astrological calculation.
1990 Rev. Educ. Res. 60 443 A strong foundation of empirical research on children's learning provided theoretical substruction.
2. The action of constructing the foundations or substructure of something, esp. a building. Also in figurative context. Obsolete.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Substruction, an underpinning or grounselling of a house.
1679 S. Woodford Paraphr. upon Canticles 61 These therefore were laid deep, and of the Pile, If ought, Substruction, consecrate to Night, The sense of Touch, too subject to beguile.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 1a), esp. in substruction wall.
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c1676 C. Wren in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 534 The Ground plot of the Substruction Cloister.
1824 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Nov. 482/1 From the middle of the edifice a substruction wall stretches out for a considerable distance towards the south, which is, no doubt, part of the foundation of some destroyed portion of the temple.
1905 Supplementary Papers Amer. School Classical Stud. Rome I. 91 The second important gate was almost certainly situated on the east side,..perhaps on the line of the prolongation of a substruction-wall.
1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 i. 46 The substruction walls are not earlier than the fourth century b.c.

Derivatives

subˈstructional adj. rare of the nature of a substructure; foundational.
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1909 M. W. Stryker in R. Scott & W. C. Stiles Mod. Serm. by World Scholars IX. 117 It is no quasi-hypothesis but a valid ‘hypostasis’; a substructional understanding of the unseen and eternal.
1990 J. O'M. Bockris et al. in G. M. Eckert et al. Electropharmacol. ii. 78 The nerve impulse..is generated across the membrane which is a complicated substructional medium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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