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• A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.From the entry sustain
• He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination".2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42. From the entry viable
• These were hidden behind hinged bulwarks, inside false superstructures and false deck cargoes, or under dummy lifeboats.2005, Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts, World War I: Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, page 956. From the entry Q-ship
• Then spread the strawberried superstructure lavishly with sweetened whipped cream, flavored with a mere drop of vanilla.1957, Sidney Walter Dean, Cooking American, page 323. From the entry strawberried
• The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books, published 2003, page 344. From the entry fish
• With certain girder bridges, the increased clearance is achieved by jacking up the entire superstructure with the bridge deck intact.1958 July, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R. Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 488. From the entry jack up
• Concentrating fire on the heavy cruiser Kumano, Johnston, somehow still alive, is rewarded by seeing explosions and flames amidst the superstructure of the Japanese cruiser.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 16:52 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry pay dividends
• The polygon advantageously is an isosceles trapezoid or rectangle with the pivotal connections between the deck or superstructure and four hulls respectively at its corners.1965 April 8, Newton B. Dismukes, “Multihull vessels (Patent US3316873A)”, in Google Patents. From the entry isosceles
• His sense of place, or status, within the superstructure of American society had changed radically since the days of the field holler.1963, Amiri Baraka, chapter 7, in Blues People: Negro Music in White America, New York: Morrow, page 87. From the entry field holler
• So of course it shoots up the battleship's superstructure whilst ducking back into the smoke as Kongō tries to take it out using its main battery.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:00 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry take out
• Therefore, the contradictions of both conformity and inconformity between socialist economic base and superstructure and between the relations of production and productivity will exist for a long time.2015, Wang Weiguang, Social Change in Contemporary China and the Theory of Social Contradictions, page 76. From the entry inconformity
• School gyms and washrooms, primarily — but also lifeboats, smokestacks, and other daubable features on the superstructure of a Liberian oil tanker I sailed on for one summer.1998, Arthur Black, Black by Popular Demand: More Wit and Whimsy, page 5. From the entry daubable
• For a long time the turning was done manually, simply by pushing on a long tail-pole extending downwards, almost to the ground, from the rotatable superstructure.1960, Thomas Kingston Derry, Trevor Illtyd Williams, A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900, Courier…. From the entry tail-pole
• The superstructure of the tender is modified by the removal of the side raves, and compartments for the fire-irons are formed on each side of the coal bunker.1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 212. From the entry rave

Meaning of superstructure

1. noun Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
2. noun Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
3. noun All that part of a building above the basement.

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How do you use superstructure in a sentence?

Superstructure is used as a noun. For example: “A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.”

What is a short sentence with superstructure?

“The Wards are open-topped, with skyscrapers rising from the superstructure.”

What does superstructure mean?

Superstructure means any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).