bedrock

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bedrock
    n 1: solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of
         soil
    2: principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you
       must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics"
       [syn: {fundamentals}, {basics}, {fundamental principle},
       {basic principle}, {bedrock}]
    
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Bedrock

   A {C++} {class} library for {Macintosh} user interface
   portability.
    
from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Bedrock, CO
  Zip code(s): 81411
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "bedrock":
      aa, abyssal rock, basalt, base, basement, basic, basis,
      bearing wall, bed, bedding, belly, block lava, bottom, bottom side,
      bottommost, brash, breccia, breech, buttocks, central,
      conglomerate, crag, deepest, downside, druid stone, essential,
      festooned pahoehoe, floor, flooring, focal, fond, footing,
      foundation, fundament, fundamental, gneiss, granite, ground,
      grounds, groundwork, hardpan, igneous rock, indispensable,
      infrastructure, lava, life-and-death, life-or-death, limestone,
      living rock, lower side, lower strata, lowest, lowest layer,
      lowest level, lowest point, magma, mantlerock, material,
      metamorphic rock, monolith, nadir, nether side, nethermost,
      nethermost level, of vital importance, pahoehoe, pavement, pillar,
      pillow lava, porphyry, principle, pudding stone, radical, regolith,
      riprap, rock, rock bottom, rock-bottom, root, ropy lava, rubble,
      rubblestone, rudiment, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree,
      seat, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, sill, solid ground,
      solid rock, stereobate, stone, stylobate, substantive, substratum,
      substruction, substructure, talus, terra firma, tower, tufa, tuff,
      underbelly, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underlayer,
      underlying level, undermost, underneath, underpinning, underside,
      understruction, understructure, vital

    

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