basement

Definition of basement in English English dictionary: Last place in a sports conference standings; A floor of a building below ground level; Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively; the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage; the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture; The igneous or metamorphic layer beneath sedimentary strata; This identifies the type of basement in the main structure; The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure; The part of a house that is partly or completely below grade; The space below finish grade below the first floor with adequate standing height; A story having part but not more than one half (1/2) of its height below finished grade A basement shall be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement if the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level of the adjoining ground is more than five feet (5') or if it is used for business purposes; the oldest rocks in a given area; The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level. They bought an old schoolhouse to live in and built a workshop in the basement. a room or area in a building that is under the level of the ground (Probably from BASE); Any area of the building, including any sunken room or sunken portion of a room, having its floor below ground level (subgrade) on all sides; The lowest story of a building, partially or entirely below ground; The enclosed area underneath a structure, typically having a masonry floor and walls which comprise the structure's foundation The clear height up to the joists supporting the floor directly above is three feet or greater; The lowest story of stories of a multistory building wholly or partly below ground level; generally of lower height than upper story's and often given over to car parking and storage (More on foundations); The lowest floor in a castle tower It was often used for storage BASTION; A basement has a slab bottom, and it uses steel or engineered wood members for floor framing These members are stronger and span farther, eliminating the need for a lot of columns This in turn opens up the basement and makes it functional; The area of a home below ground level; 3 (a); (underground): a basement, or box enclosure, is a heavy cast fiber enclosure with angular construction that provides supporting strength for a pad mounted transformer; a basement also provides room to store extra cable (in the form of a coil) to facilitate repairs; The conditioned or unconditioned space below the main living area or primary floor of a building; See Base, n; the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture; {i} cellar, story of a building which is underground; The lowest story of a building partially or entirely below ground; Harder and usually older igneous and metamorphic rocks that underlie the main sedimentary rock sequences (softer and usually younger) of a region and extend downward to the base of the crust; A complex of undifferentiated rocks that underlies the oldest sedimentary rocks In many places the rocks of the complex are igneous and metamorphic and of Precambrian age, but in some places they are Paleozoic, Mesozoic, or even Cenozoic In terms of petroleum exploration, basement is the surface below which there is no current exploration interest; Any floor below the first story in a building; Complex of igneous and metamorphic rock that underlies the sedimentary rocks of a region; 1 if in darkness, trying to find away out 2 starting from the lower levels or the beginning 3 emotional expression of sudden depression or emotional imbalance coming on 4 having to start again 5 actions were not spiritual; The lowest story of a building, usually below ground level
basement battler: A team in or around the relegation zone
Basement Area Network: local area network established within a private home (Computer Slang), BAN
basement membrane: A thin, delicate layer of connective tissue underlying the epithelium of many organs. Also called basement lamina
bargain basement: store in which items are marked down to very inexpensive prices
bargain basement: If you refer to something as a bargain basement thing, you mean that it is cheap and not very good quality. a bargain-basement rock musical. a part of a large shop, usually below ground level, where goods are sold at reduced prices
bargain basement rates: very cheap prices, very inexpensive prices
Michigan basement: a simple, often damp, basement that has an earth floor
basements: plural of basement