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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/#m1)

2) The basic idea or part that everything else depends on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/#x1)
- The skyscraper is built on bedrock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/#x2)
- Trust is the bedrock of a good team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/#x3)
- Reading is the bedrock of learning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/#x4)
- The river cut down through the bedrock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/#x5)
- Workers drilled into the bedrock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bedrock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedrock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.