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foundation
English
Etymology
From Latin fund?ti?.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fa?n?de???n/, [fa??n?de???n?]
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
foundation (countable and uncountable, plural foundations)
- The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
- Synonym: establishment
- Antonyms: abolition, dissolution, ruination
- 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.
- Synonyms: groundwork, basis
- (figuratively) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
- Synonyms: groundwork, platform, stage
- 2006, K P Yadav, Economic Planning And Restructuring, Sarup & Sons ?ISBN, page 44
- The implication is that the Gandhian model of growth is possible, now that Nehru's investment strategy had already laid a strong foundation for economic growth.
- (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.
- (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.
- Synonyms: base, groundwall
- A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
- A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- foundation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
foundation From the web:
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- what foundation do celebrities use
embryo
English
Alternative forms
- (after the Medieval Latin embryo) embrio [Middle English to the 18th century], embryo [17th century to the present] (singular forms); embryones [17th century to the present], embrio’s [17th–18th centuries], embrioes [17th century], embryos [19th century to the present] (plural forms)
- (after the stem (embry?n-) of the Medieval Latin embryo) embrioun [Middle English], embrion [Middle English to the 18th century], embryon [17th–19th centuries] (singular forms); embrions [17th C.], embryons [17th–19th centuries] (plural forms)
- (after the Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon)) embryon [17th century to the present] (singular form); embryons [17th century to the present], embrya [18th century to the present] (plural forms)
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embry?, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon, “fetus”), from ?? (en, “in-”) + ???? (brú?, “I grow, swell”). Possibly related to Hebrew ??????? (“fetus, embryo”) ('?bar).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??mb?i.??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??mb?i.o?/
- Hyphenation: em?bryo
Noun
embryo (plural embryos or embryones)
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
- In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 419:
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...]
Derived terms
- embryology
- embryonic
- proembryo
Related terms
- fetus, foetus
- zygote
Translations
Further reading
- embryo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Morbey, merboy
Czech
Noun
embryo n
- embryo
- Synonym: zárodek
Related terms
- embryonální
Further reading
- embryo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- embryo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
- embryo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon, “fetus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m.bri.o?/
- Hyphenation: em?bryo
Noun
embryo n (plural embryo's, diminutive embryootje n)
- embryo
Derived terms
- embryogenese
- embryologie
- embryologisch
- embryoloog
- embryonaal
- embryoselectie
- embryotransplantatie
Finnish
Noun
embryo
- (rare) embryo
Declension
Synonyms
- alkio
Interlingua
Noun
embryo (plural embryos)
- embryo
Related terms
- embryonal
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon, “fetus”).
Noun
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo or embryoer, definite plural embryoa or embryoene)
- (biology, botany) an embryo
Related terms
- foster
References
- “embryo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émbruon, “fetus”).
Noun
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo, definite plural embryoa)
- (biology, botany) an embryo
Related terms
- foster
References
- “embryo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
embryo n
- embryo; an unborn baby that is less developed than a fetus.
- embryo; an organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
Declension
embryo From the web:
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