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Lowest support of a structure
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fundament
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fundament \Fun"da*ment\, n. [OE. fundament, fundement, fondement, OF. fundement, fondement, F. fondement, fr. L. fundamentum foundation, fr. fundare to lay the bottom, to found, fr. fundus bottom. See Fund .] Foundation. [Obs.] --Chaucer. The part of the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis , base , foundation , groundwork , cornerstone ] the fleshy part of the human body that ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 foundation. 2 The bottom; the buttocks or anus. 3 The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "foundation, base; buttocks, anus," from Old French fondement "foundation, bottom; land, estate; anus" (12c.), from Latin fundamentum "a foundation, ground-work; support; beginning," from fundare "to found" (see bottom (n.)). So called because ...
Usage examples of fundament.
In his voyages and travels, in describing the death of the King of Demaa at the hands of his page, Mendez Pinto says that instead of being reserved for torture, as were his successors Ravaillac, and Gerard, the slayer of William the Silent, the assassin was impaled alive with a long stake which was thrust in at his fundament and came out at the nape of his neck.
The Peacock Throne is the one which was warmed by the fundament of the Shahan-Shah of Persia until the secularists threw him out a few years ago.
English plant which grows by the sides of ditches, and belongs to the scrofula-curing order, has acquired its name because supposed to heal sores in the fundament when applied like figs as a poultice.
The Peacock Throne is the one which was warmed by the fundament of the Shahan-Shah of Persia until the secularists threw him out a few years ago.
Throw me down a ladder at once, you sorry by-blow outcome of a diseased sow and a spavined camel's perversions, else I'll see you given that swivel gun and all within it as the hottest clyster that your foul fundament ever has known!
I wonder, when ye were at it, that ye didna rather think of bigging another frae the fundament, for I'm thinking the walls are no o' a capacity of strength to outlast this seating.
My friend had already got a finger well greased with cold cream up Frank's fundament which the boy seemed to enjoy rather than not, as I might judge by the increasing activity of his little prick in my arse.
The Race’s stools and chairs were not only too small but also made for fundaments of fundamentally different shape.
Our backs and hips align differently from yours, and our fundaments have a different shape.
Passage was possible, but each step brought with it fear of disaster and a knowledge that the sound fundaments of the world may be nothing more than eggshell thin.
Pods got their fundaments blown out from under them by VTs on long passes, predatory banks, high deflection shots.
Someday I will show you cultures living in spaces, not on planets—nor on fundaments of any sort.
Someday I will show you cultures living in spaces, not on planets--nor on fundaments of any sort.
And so ill-ordered was Main Detention, we all might have perished at Croaker's hands between lock-up times had there not been hosts of passive pederasts and suicidal drop-outs eager for abuse, who diverted him at great cost of limbs and fundaments, not all which Max's skill could repair without medical equipment.