Foundation

Definition

foundation / faƱn'deÇʃn / n ၁။ [U] တည္ေထာင္ျခင္း။ the foundation of the national library. ၂။ [C] ပရဟိတလုပ္ငန္း စသည္ ေထာက္ပံ့ရန္ တည္ေထာင္ထားေသာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း။ the Ford Foundation ❍ You may be able to get support for your training from an arts foundation. ၃။ [C usu pl ] အေဆာက္အအံု၏အေျခခံ။ အုတ္ျမစ္။ lay the foundations of a school ❍ The explosion shook the foundations of the houses nearby. ၄။ [C,U] အေျခခံ။ အေၾကာင္းရင္း။ အုတ္ျမစ္။ အေျခအျမစ္။ lay the foundations of one's career ❍ provide a solid foundation for the marriage ❍ controversies that rock the foundations of social and moral life ❍ The rumour is totally without foundation (ie not based on true facts). ၅။ (also foundation cream ) [U] မိတ္ကပ္ေအာက္ခံ။ ❏ foundation course n ( Brit ) အေျခခံသင္တန္း။ take a foundation course in economics. ❏ foundation-stone n အခမ္းအနားျဖင့္ခ်ေသာ အုတ္ျမစ္။

Examples

1. How long will it take to finish digging the foundations?
2. He believes that religion is the foundation of a civilized society.
3. The first two years of study provide a solid foundation in computing.
4. Their current economic prosperity rests on rather weak foundations.
5. The foundation of the first grammar schools