Noun
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lowest support of a structure
"it was built on a base of solid rock"
"he stood at the foot of the tower"
- understructure -
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"
"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
- hind end - rear end - tail end -
the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
"the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"