base

Plural: bases

Noun

• installation from which a military force initiates operations
  • "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
• lowest support of a structure
  • "it was built on a base of solid rock"
• a place that the runner must touch before scoring
• the bottom or lowest part
  • "the base of the mountain"
• (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
  • "the base of the skull"
• a lower limit
• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
• a support or foundation
  • "the base of the lamp"
• a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
• any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
  • "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"
• the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
  • "the base of the triangle"
• the most important or necessary part of something
• (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
• the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
• a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
  • "the industrial base of Japan"
• the principal ingredient of a mixture
  • "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"
  • "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"
  • "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base"
• a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
  • "a tub should sit on its own base"
• (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
• Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
• The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
• The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
• Important areas in games and sports.
• A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
• Important areas in games and sports.
• One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
• The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
• The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
• A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• Synonym of radix.
• The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
• In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
• A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• Dated form of bass.
• The smallest kind of cannon.
• The housing of a horse.
• A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
• A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
• The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• An apron.
• A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
• A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
• The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
• A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
• Ellipsis of base leg.
• freebase cocaine
• The game of prisoners' bars.
• Alternative form of BASE.

Verb

Verb Forms: based, basing, bases

• To use as the foundation or starting point for something.
• use as a basis for; found on
  • "base a claim on some observation"
• situate as a center of operations
  • "we will base this project in the new lab"
• use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
• To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• To be located (at a particular place).
• To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• To freebase.

Adjective Satellite

• serving as or forming a base
  • "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
  • "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"
• (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
  • "base coins of aluminum"
  • "a base metal"
• not adhering to ethical or moral principles
  • "base and unpatriotic motives"
  • "a base, degrading way of life"
• having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; - Edmund Burke; ; - Shakespeare
  • "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"
• illegitimate
• debased; not genuine
  • "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

Adj

• Low in height; short.
• Low in place or position.
• Of low value or degree.
• Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• Not considered precious or noble.
• Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• Not classical or correct.
• Obsolete form of bass.
• Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.

Adjective

• Morally low; without principles.

Examples

• A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.
• base bullion
• base coin
• It’s a base tactic to peek at your opponent’s Scrabble tiles.
• I’ll base my next move on the high-value letters I just drew.
• the base tone of a violin
• The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.

Synonyms

al-Qa'ida, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, alkali, bag, basal, base of operations, baseborn, basis, cornerstone, establish, floor, foot, found, foundation, free-base, fundament, ground, groundwork, home, humble, immoral, infrastructure, lowly, mean, meanspirited, nucleotide, pedestal, Qaeda, radical, radix, root, root word, stand, stem, substructure, theme, understructure, common, despicable, electoral base, evil, illegitimate, insignificant, little, low-born, low-lying, low-quality, lowland, petite, plebeian, political base, short, vulgar

Antonyms

acid, admirable, apex, desirable, likeable, noble, superstructure

Related Words

+ +... =, + =, =, Or sometimes, log(base) =, successor, × =, × ×... =, ÷ =, − =, √ =

Anagrams of base