superstructure
IPA: sˈupɝstrʌktʃɝ
noun
- (nautical) Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
- Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
- (sometimes figurative) All that part of a building above the basement.
- (Britain, railroad) The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
- (Marxism) The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.
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Examples of "superstructure" in Sentences
- Most of the rest is superstructure.
- The 1966 repairs to the superstructure
- All of the superstructure is affected by curvature.
- In the third and final paradigm is the superstructure.
- But adventure is the superstructure, domesticity the bedrock.
- Outrigger trawlers may have the superstructure forward or aft.
- The financial trading superstructure is impossible without IT.
- The superstructure is terraced both at the fore and aft of the ship.
- “Our superstructure is made entirely of a special polymer, comrade.”
- If the foundations are not sound, then neither is the superstructure.
- Clearly discernible are the superstructures, parts of the funnel and deck.
- Demolition of the hulking superstructure began in earnest shortly thereafter.
- The superstructure is a theoretical one that ran away with the entire so-called "field".
- I believe the goldfish-bowl or greenhouse superstructure is on its way out, especially in the rear of the vehicle.
- The oldest foundations are really up there; and part of the superstructure is still hidden within the modern walls.
- Ban and Gastines designed the building to have a "superstructure" - a curving roof made of wooden hexagonal units supported by a central metallic spire and four conical pillars.
- [Gennari] focuses on what he calls jazz's "superstructure" - its critics essentially, but also some of its businessmen-to analyze what a much related story says, or almost says, about about racial and cultural politics in the American 20th century.
- What Mr. Kipling has done for us is to make us really know and feel that the larger part of our mental composition is of the same substance as that of our cousins the animals, with a certain superstructure of reasoning faculty which has enabled us to become their masters.
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