different between supporting vs substructure

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??p??t??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p??t??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /s??po(?)?t??/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /s??po?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??
• Hyphenation: sup?port?ing

Adjective

supporting (comparative more supporting, superlative most supporting)

1. That supports.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

supporting

1. present participle of support

Noun

supporting (plural supportings)

1. That which supports something else; a support.
   • 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese (page 252)

     But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]

   • 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute

     […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.

English

Etymology

From sub- +? structure.

Noun

substructure (plural substructures)

1. The supporting part of a structure (either physical or organizational; the foundation).

   Synonym: underbuilding

2. The earth or gravel that the railway tracks are embedded in.

Translations

See also

• superstructure

French

Etymology

sub- +? structure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syp.st?yk.ty?/

Adjective

substructure f (plural substructures)

1. substructure

References

• “substructure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sub.stru?k?tu?.re/, [s??ps?(t?)?u?k?t?u???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sup.struk?tu.re/, [supst??uk?t?u???]

Participle

substr?ct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of substr?ct?rus