Foundation vs. Creation
Foundation and Creation Definitions
Foundation
The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.
Creation
The act of creating.
Foundation
(Architecture) A wall or other structure, as of concrete or masonry, usually extending below ground level and forming the base upon which a building rests.
Creation
The fact or state of having been created.
Foundation
Something that gives rise to or supports something else.
Creation
The act of investing with a new office or title.
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Foundation
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty.
Creation
The world and all things in it.
Foundation
That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
Creation
All creatures or a class of creatures.
Foundation
(figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
Creation
Creation The divine act by which, according to various religious and philosophical traditions, the world was brought into existence.
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Foundation
(card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
Creation
An original product of human invention or artistic imagination
The latest creation in the field of computer design.
Foundation
(architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
The foundations of this construction have been laid out.
Creation
(countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.
I think the manufacturer was so ashamed of its creation that it didn't put its name on it!
Foundation
A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
Creation
(uncountable) The act of creating something.
The restructure resulted in the creation of a number of shared services.
The creation of passwords is done by a computer.
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Foundation
That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of the Wiktionary collaborative project.
Creation
(uncountable) All which exists.
Let us pray to Christ, the King of all creation.
Foundation
(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
Creation
The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
From the creation to the general doom.
As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation.
Foundation
A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
Creation
That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.
We know that the whole creation groaneth.
A dagger of the mind, a false creation.
Choice pictures and creations of curious art.
Foundation
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
Creation
The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
An Irish peer of recent creation.
Foundation
That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.
Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone . . . a precious corner stone, a sure foundation.
The foundation of a free common wealth.
Creation
The human act of creating
Foundation
A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
He was entered on the foundation of Westminster.
Creation
An artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
Foundation
That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity; as, the Ford Foundation.
Against the canon laws of our foundation.
Creation
The event that occurred at the beginning of something;
From its creation the plan was doomed to failure
Foundation
The basis on which something is grounded;
There is little foundation for his objections
Creation
The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;
She looked forward to her initiation as an adult
The foundation of a new scientific society
He regards the fork as a modern introduction
Foundation
An institution supported by an endowment
Creation
(theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence
Foundation
The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;
The whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture
Creation
Everything that exists anywhere;
They study the evolution of the universe
The biggest tree in existence
Foundation
Lowest support of a structure;
It was built on a base of solid rock
He stood at the foot of the tower
Foundation
Education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge;
He lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study
A good grounding in mathematics
Foundation
A woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
Foundation
The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;
She looked forward to her initiation as an adult
The foundation of a new scientific society
He regards the fork as a modern introduction
