Foundation vs. Basis
Foundationnoun
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
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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.
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(figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
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(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.
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(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.
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A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
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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.
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A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
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The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
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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.
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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.
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A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
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That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity; as, the Ford Foundation.
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the basis on which something is grounded;
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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;
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a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
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the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;
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the lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level
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a coloured cream, powder, or liquid used as a base to even out facial skin tone before applying other cosmetics
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an underlying basis or principle
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justification or reason
Foundationnoun
the action of establishing an institution or organization
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an institution established with an endowment, for example a research body or charity
Basisnoun
A physical base or foundation.
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A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
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An underlying condition or circumstance.
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A regular frequency.
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(linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
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(accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
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(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.
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The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
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The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
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The groundwork; the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
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The principal component part of a thing.
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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;
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the most important or necessary part of something;
