bedrock

«bedrock» in Mova's school dictionary: The solid rock that lies under soil and loose rocks — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (bedrock, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) The solid rock that lies under soil and loose rocks. tree →

2) The basic idea or part that everything else depends on. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography: dig down to bedrock; buildings rest on bedrock. In everyday and formal talk: honesty is the bedrock of friendship. Phrases: the bedrock of, down to bedrock.

examples

• Under the soil lies solid bedrock. tree →
• The skyscraper is built on bedrock. tree →
• Trust is the bedrock of a good team. tree →
• Reading is the bedrock of learning. tree →
• The river cut down through the bedrock. tree →
• Workers drilled into the bedrock. tree →

note

Uncountable. Bed + rock: the "bed" (bottom layer) of rock. Not the cartoon town "Bedrock" in The Flintstones.

In the corpora

• Soil has layers called horizons: dark topsoil, paler subsoil below, and broken rock above the bedrock.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bedrock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.