Foundation vs. Basis

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Foundationnoun

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

Foundationnoun

That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.

Foundationnoun

(figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.

Foundationnoun

(card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.

Foundationnoun

(architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

Foundationnoun

A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

Foundationnoun

That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.

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(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.

Foundationnoun

A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

Foundationnoun

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

Foundationnoun

That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.

Foundationnoun

The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

Foundationnoun

A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

Foundationnoun

That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity; as, the Ford Foundation.

Foundationnoun

the basis on which something is grounded;

Foundationnoun

an institution supported by an endowment

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the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;

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lowest support of a structure;

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education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge;

Foundationnoun

a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body

Foundationnoun

the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

Foundationnoun

the lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level

Foundationnoun

a coloured cream, powder, or liquid used as a base to even out facial skin tone before applying other cosmetics

Foundationnoun

an underlying basis or principle

Foundationnoun

justification or reason

Foundationnoun

the action of establishing an institution or organization

Foundationnoun

an institution established with an endowment, for example a research body or charity

Basisnoun

A physical base or foundation.

Basisnoun

A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.

Basisnoun

An underlying condition or circumstance.

Basisnoun

A regular frequency.

Basisnoun

(linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.

Basisnoun

(accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.

Basisnoun

(topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.

Basisnoun

The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

Basisnoun

The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.

Basisnoun

The groundwork; the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.

Basisnoun

The principal component part of a thing.

Basisnoun

a relation that provides the foundation for something;

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the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;

Basisnoun

the most important or necessary part of something;

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