basement

[US]/ˈbeɪsmənt/
[UK]/ˈbeɪsmənt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a room or rooms below the ground floor of a building, typically used for storage or as a living space.

Phrases & Collocations

basement membrane

basement rock

crystalline basement

basement wall

bargain basement

basement floor

Example Sentences

My office is a cubby-hole in the basement.

the basement is done out in limed oak.

The basement was a horror show after the sleepover party.

the external basement walls were faced with granite slabs.

Conclusions:Degeneration of nerve cells was the pathologic basement of animal dementi...

Our basement flooded when the sump pump broke.

a basement that harbors a maze of pipes; streams that harbor trout and bass.

They goaded him into entering the pitch dark basement by saying he was a coward.

When the regional extension is disharmonic with the basement structure and movement, complicated fault assemblages can be form during progressive deformation.

The collagen type Ⅲ formed ring-like structures apparently representative of fibriform collagen immediately adjacent to the epithelial basement membrane.

Waxwork depicting Shanghai ginhouse in late 19th century, Shanghai History Museum, basement of Oriental Pearl Tower.

You're the only millionaire I ever heard of whozoes looking for a bargain basement streetwalker, you know?

The REE patterns for bitumen is similar to those for supracrustal sedimentary rocks in areas with no basement faults but stabilized structural settings.

Baiyinchagan depression is part of downwarping faulted rift basin developed on XingmengHercynian multicycle and collision fold basement in late Mesozoic.

The obturated haemocoel was enclosed by the continuous and stratified basement membrane under the coelothelium and endothelial.

Minhe Basin is a Mesozoic-Cenozoic intermont basin grew on Precambrian metamorphic rock basement in middle Qilian uplift zone.Total thickness of Mesozoic-Cenozoic is about 7000 meters.

Chen Huifang. 1991.Discovery of the old crystalline basement and komatiite on Hainan island.Geotectonica et Metallogenia,15(1) :62.

A.C.currents were not allowed in the whole building,a dampish corner in the basement of which served as our laboratory,with a dampish chemical laboratory overhead;

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