bases

Plural: bases

Noun

• Plural of basis; fundamental principles or starting points.
• The plural form of BASIS.
• installation from which a military force initiates operations
  • "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
• lowest support of a structure
• a place that the runner must touch before scoring
• the bottom or lowest part
• (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
• a lower limit
• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
• a support or foundation
• 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 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 principal ingredient of a mixture
• a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
• (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
• a relation that provides the foundation for something
• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
• the most important or necessary part of something
• plural of base
• plural of basis

Verb

• use as a basis for; found on
• situate as a center of operations
• use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
• third-person singular simple present indicative of base

Examples

• He covered all his bases by memorizing the two-letter word list.
• Laying down strong "BASES" is crucial for building high-scoring words in Words With Friends.

Synonyms

al-Qa'ida, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, alkali, bag, base, Base, base of operations, basis, cornerstone, establish, floor, foot, footing, found, foundation, free-base, fundament, ground, groundwork, home, infrastructure, nucleotide, pedestal, Qaeda, radical, radix, root, root word, stand, stem, substructure, theme, understructure