English Dictionary

foundation

IPA（発音記号）

/faʊnˈdeɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法

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

日本語の意味

創設、設立、築立など、何かを初めて作り上げる行為・過程を指します。

The foundation of the settlement began with a small group of farmers clearing the land.

集落の創設は、少人数の農民が土地を切り開くことから始まった。

意味（1）

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

The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty.

意味（2）

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.

Aye Madam to be sure that is the Provoking circumstance—without Foundation—yes yes—there's the mortification indeed—for when a slanderous story is believed against one—there certainly is no comfort like the consciousness of having deserved it

意味（3）

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

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.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

(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.

“Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of the Wiktionary collaborative project.

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

foundations （ plural ）