Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To build or erect upon something.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
build over or upon (another structure); toerect upon (afoundation ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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That hiatus was why I was so suprised to be named one of the “SEHI 19,” 19 folks from the superstruct community chosen to be puppetmasters of a future superstruct game.
Post-superstruct 2008
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That hiatus was why I was so suprised to be named one of the “SEHI 19,” 19 folks from the superstruct community chosen to be puppetmasters of a future superstruct game.
The New NMAH 2008
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That hiatus was why I was so suprised to be named one of the “SEHI 19,” 19 folks from the superstruct community chosen to be puppetmasters of a future superstruct game.
Post-superstruct 2008
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You shall find, that of old they made carts and other carriages of it; and for piles to superstruct on in boggy grounds; most of Venice, and Amsterdam is built upon them, with so excessive charge, as some report, the foundations of their houses cost as much, as what is erected on them; there being driven in no fewer than 13659 great masts of this timber, under the new Stadt-house of Amsterdam.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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If struct C inherits from struct D (directly or transitively) we say that struct C is a substruct of struct D and struct D a superstruct of struct C.
Dashboard RSS Feed Vijay Saraswat 2009
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Vitruvius tells us, that the morasses about Ravenna in Italy, were pil’d with this timber, to superstruct upon, and highly commends it.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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