Noun : The building has a strong understructure. ,an argument that rests on a sound understructure of knowledge.    From Dictionary.com. 

The understructure seems to vary a lot more than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Hassle the Hoff--(or kiss him, either!)] Reference

LEMON: You were talking about in the understructure where they found the three bodies first.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008] Reference

Onion sautéed in bacon fat forms a savory understructure highlighted by a garnish of bacon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brussels Sprouts] Reference

These trapezoidal pieces of timber are to be supported against the supporting understructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Construction of ferro-cement reservoirs] Reference

In one image, we see only a close-up of the honeycombed understructure of MIT's Simmons Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fashion, Fa] Reference

From there the elaborate and extremely interesting steel understructure was plainly visible overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

Also, I try to indicate that when the sun is backlighting it, you can see the understructure of the blimp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finished shading concept for the Zepplin] Reference

He has an intuitive feel for the understructure of society, of the desires and contradictions on which it rests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abou Farman: Sub-prime Dream] Reference

Those were largely made with plastic and an understructure made of chicken wire and wood covered with polyethylene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marina Cashdan: Lynda Benglis, Shape Shifter and Influencer] Reference

The situation seemed safe, so I moved near one of the larger holes in the understructure and let him run ahead on the lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born to Bark] Reference

Few paved stretches remained, but the tightly compacted understructure still provided a better surface than the rough soil of the fields to either side.    From Wordnik.com.  [PodCastle » 2010 » February] Reference

These, like the ELT, can be planted in a random pattern, allowing the understructure to disappear, or to made patterns using the grid modules as bitmaps see below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Wall Systems | Impact Lab] Reference

Instead, they inhabit those notions, tinkering and playing with them and often discarding them summarily when they become dissonant with the real, economic understructure of Conservatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Principia Wingnuttia] Reference

They are photographable acts, by definition, while understructure is really far easier to pull off in the novel, where the internal monologues of the characters can be endlessly explored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

It may help to think of our political establishment as an outer veneer, covering an understructure that is unseen and not acknowledged, leading most to assume there is nothing beyond the visible veneer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Truthers Need to Vote for Obama] Reference

He held that it was as impossible for a painter to try to repaint a head where the understructure was wrong, as for a sculptor to remodel the features of a head that has not been understood in the mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sargent's Repainting] Reference

Rebuilding the understructure of the building added six weeks to the project.    From Wordnik.com.  [MPNnow Home RSS] Reference

The suits themselves are a mix of resin and metal built on top of an aluminum understructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

That's considerably lower than the 2010 Prius with which the HS250h shares its understructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [HybridCars.com] Reference

They were at sea during these years, Bradley argued, because they didn't have the understructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookslut] Reference

Made entirely from cardboard, the understructure of the suspension lamp is a flat sheet joined end-to-end.    From Wordnik.com.  [INHABITAT] Reference

For example, a row with three empty cells has the plain text understructure U+FFF9 U+000D U+0007 U+0007 U+0007.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

"When I paint, I start with the understructure: The under layer functions to embody the physical manifestation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Boise Weekly] Reference

The repubs have destroyed the economic understructure of the US and are eager to gut SocialSecurity to give to the wealthiest few.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The whole understructure of the economy is, and will always be, based on these communal, familial, emotional, ambivalent ties, and none other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Limited, Inc.] Reference

Oddly on yet another dimension, my re-assessment began a year or so before the fissures in the financial system's understructure began to be visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tom Peters Weblog] Reference

Windows and door apertures are the same, though, and so is much of the understructure: it's the kind of refreshment that created the latest Golf out of the previous one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

The project will include replacing the boardwalk with a different material that includes a metal understructure and a synthetic surface made of recycled wood and plastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference

That elegance is somewhat tarnished by wear and tear, however, as exemplified by the manner in which our dining chair's understructure had become uncomfortably compromised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader - MassLive.com] Reference

At an earlier era the platform of the pulpit was supported by an understructure or by a number of columns, and during the Renaissance pulpits projected from a pillar or wall, like balconies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

The suspension and understructure are shared with the new Toyota Verso MPV and, as configured for the Prius, they underpin a car with smooth, accurate steering, a supple ride and a fluent demeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Insight, on whose power units and understructure the shorter, wider and lower CR-Z is broadly based, but that takes nothing away from the eeriness of the solar-eclipse glow which emanates from behind the circular, digital speedometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motoring]

The basic ingredients have already been proven: the powerful engine, the lightweight yet stiff understructure, the honing in the toughest environments around the world and the exhaust note which is always evocative no matter which model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalopnik: Top] Reference

9. It is impossible for a painter to try to repaint a head where the understructure was wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sargent’s Painting Notes] Reference

When the new fabric stretches, as it does when it’s being worn, it shows the knit understructure through the nap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glove prototype] Reference

"my position is that men control the overstructure, women control the understructure: 'the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Hassle the Hoff--(or kiss him, either!)] Reference

I really don’t like the way 4e plays, and as you say, a new paintjob (4e fans should read as “house rules”, to be clear) won’t have any effect on the understructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Mearls Strangles Realism In D&D Like It’s An Unruly Hooker « Geek Related] Reference

It contained five young ones, and was composed of fine grey pushm or wool resting on an understructure of moss. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

(2010), Brown has unusually emphasized the abstract understructure of his painting, in this case an angled grid.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference