superstructure
上层建筑,上盖,上级建筑,顶端建筑
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Definitions
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- : the part of a building or construction entirely above its foundation or basement.
- : any structure built on something else.
- : the overlying framework or features of an organization, institution, or system, built or superimposed on a more fundamental base.
- : Nautical. any construction built above the main deck of a vessel as an upward continuation of the sides.Compare deckhouse.
- : the part of a bridge that rests on the piers and abutments.
- : anything based on or rising from some foundation or basis: a complex ideological superstructure based on two hypotheses.
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Examples
Because of its brilliant white color, you don't see a dividing line between the hull and superstructure.
A large metal sign permanently affixed to the superstructure reminded us that we were on the “Sagamore Bridge, 1933-1935.”
That it was adapted to carry a vast and consistent logical superstructure, gave it beauty.
We have commenced at the superstructure of the building, instead of the foundation—at the top instead of the bottom.
The work which he did was in laying foundations, while the superstructure was to be reared in other years and by other hands.
The superstructure was merely a cone composed of a framework of poles interlaced with branches and twigs plastered with clay.
The American plutocracy has developed upon a superstructure of Puritanism, and therefore, in America, hypocrisy is necessary.
Discusses scientific, artistic and religious activities, as a superstructure built upon the foundation of the standard wage.