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Socle vs Basement - What's the difference?

socle | basement |

As nouns the difference between socle and basement

is that socle is a low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other art work while basement is a floor of a building below ground level.

socle

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia socle)
  • (architecture) A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other art work.
  • (mathematics) The sum of the minimal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R.
  • (mathematics, group theory) The subgroup generated by the minimal normal subgroups of a given group.

    • Synonyms

    * (a plinth or pedestal) zocco, zocle

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    basement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A floor of a building below ground level.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • Last place in a sports conference standings.

    • Derived terms

    * bargain basement * basement battler * basementless * basementlike * basement membrane * subbasement