Definition of
Base
- (noun, artifact) a support or foundation
- (noun, artifact) a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- (noun, artifact) (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- (noun, artifact) installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (noun, artifact) a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (noun, artifact) the principal ingredient of a mixture
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 - (noun, artifact) lowest support of a structure
he stood at the foot of the tower - (noun, artifact) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- (noun, cognition) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- (noun, communication) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- (noun, communication) a lower limit
- (noun, group) 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
- (noun, location) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (noun, location) (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- (noun, object) the bottom or lowest part
- (noun, quantity) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- (noun, linkdef) the most important or necessary part of something
- (noun, shape) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- (noun, substance) any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- (noun, substance) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- (verb, cognition) use as a basis for; found on
- (verb, consumption) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- (verb, stative) situate as a center of operations
- (adj, all) debased; not genuine
- (adj, all) illegitimate
- (adj, all) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
taking a mean advantage
chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort
something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics - (adj, all) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
of humble (or lowly) birth - (adj, all) serving as or forming a base
- (adj, all) not adhering to ethical or moral principles
a base, degrading way of life
cheating is dishonorable
they considered colonialism immoral
unethical practices in handling public funds - (adj, all) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
a base metal
via WordNet, Princeton University
Synonyms of Base
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
Alternate forms of Base
Derivations: basal, base, baseness, basify, basilar, basilary
Hyponyms: a, adenosine diphosphate, adenosine monophosphate, adenosine triphosphate, adenylic acid, adp, air base, air station, amp, army base, atp, base pair, bed, brass monkey, build, c, cyanuramide, deoxyadenosine monophosphate, deoxycytidine monophosphate, deoxyguanosine monophosphate, deoxythymidine monophosphate, firebase, first base, g, glyoxaline, home, home base, home plate, imidazole, iminazole, meat and potatoes, melamine, muton, navy base, plate, price floor, purine, pyridine, pyrimidine, raft foundation, rocket base, second base, staddle, t, third, third base, trivet, u, uracil, wage floor
Hypernyms: assumption, baseball equipment, bottom, chemical compound, component, component part, compound, constituent, control, descriptor, do drugs, drug, electrode, ester, flank, form, fund, ingredient, locate, location, military installation, number, part, piece, portion, signifier, situate, stock, store, support, supposal, supposition, underside, undersurface, word form
Origin of the word Base
- "bottom, foundation, pedestal," early 14c., from O.Fr. bas "depth" (12c.), from L. basis "foundation," from Gk. basis "step, pedestal," from bainein "to step" (see come). The military sense is from 1860. The chemical sense (1810) was introduced in French 1754 by Fr. chemist Guillaume-Fran?ois Rouelle (1703-1770). The verb meaning "to place on a found… more
- late 14c., from O.Fr. bas (Mod.Fr. bas) "low, lowly, mean," from L.L. bassus "thick, stumpy, low" (used only as a cognomen in classical Latin, humilis being there the usual word for "low in stature or position"), possibly from Oscan, or Celtic, or related to Gk. basson, comparative of bathys "deep." Figurative sense of "low in the moral… more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Base
b.c., b.c.e., baas, babassu, babka, babushka, baby buggy, baby shoe, baby-wise, babyish, bacca, bacchic, bacchus, baccy, bach, back, back away, back saw, backache, backhoe, backsaw, backsheesh, backwash, bag, bagascosis, bagasse, bagassosis, baggage, baggy, bahasa, baic, baisa, baisakh, baiza, baize, bake, bakehouse, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, baku
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