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Base

noun
1.
Installation from which a military force initiates operations.  Synonym: base of operations.
2.
Lowest support of a structure.  Synonyms: foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure.  "He stood at the foot of the tower"
3.
A place that the runner must touch before scoring.  Synonym: bag.
4.
The bottom or lowest part.
5.
(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment.
6.
A lower limit.  Synonym: floor.
7.
The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.  Synonyms: basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork.
8.
A support or foundation.  Synonyms: pedestal, stand.
9.
A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA).  Synonym: nucleotide.
10.
Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.  Synonym: alkali.
11.
The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed.
12.
The most important or necessary part of something.  Synonym: basis.
13.
(numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place.  Synonym: radix.
14.
The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end.  Synonym: home.
15.
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.  Synonyms: al-Qa'ida, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Qaeda.
16.
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.  Synonyms: radical, root, root word, stem, theme.
17.
The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area.  Synonym: infrastructure.
18.
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"
19.
A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit.
20.
(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector.
verb
(past & past part. based; pres. part. basing)
1.
Use as a basis for; found on.  Synonyms: establish, found, ground.
2.
Situate as a center of operations.
3.
Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes.  Synonym: free-base.
adjective
1.
Serving as or forming a base.  Synonym: basal.
2.
Of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense).  Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly.  "Of humble (or lowly) birth"
3.
(used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal.  "A base metal"
4.
Not adhering to ethical or moral principles.  Synonym: immoral.  "A base, degrading way of life" , "Cheating is dishonorable" , "They considered colonialism immoral" , "Unethical practices in handling public funds"
5.
Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.  Synonyms: mean, meanspirited.  "Taking a mean advantage" , "Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort" , "Something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
6.
Illegitimate.  Synonym: baseborn.
7.
Debased; not genuine.



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"Base" Quotes from Famous Books



... Naples; the S. Peter and the S. Paul that are at the foot of the steps of S. Pietro in Rome, and the tomb of Pope Paul II in S. Pietro. The figure that Paolo made in competition with Mino was the S. Paul that is to be seen on a marble base at the head of the Ponte S. Angelo, which stood unnoticed for a long time in front of the Chapel of Sixtus IV. It afterwards came to pass that one day Pope Clement VII observed this figure, which pleased him greatly, for he was a man of knowledge and judgment in such matters; ...
— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 3 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna • Giorgio Vasari
... using agriculture only as a subsidiary branch of business. All the other societies have agriculture as their industrial base, and many of them manufacture but little, though all have some branch of manufacture. Also, it is the aim of all to produce and make, as far as possible, every thing they consume. To limit the expenditures and increase the ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff
... regards) that he needn't "deal with" the American notices of the "Cricket." I never read one word of their abuse, and I should think it base to read their praises. It is something to know that one is righted so soon; and knowing that, I can afford to know ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens
... scoured in every direction and all persons questioned, not only at the change-stations on the main roads, and at crossroads, but at all villages. Not a clue has been found; though all Turpio's friends more than suspect Vedius Molo, there is not an iota of evidence on which anyone could base a demand for a warrant to search Villa Vedia or any other specified villa, farmstead or other piece of property. Xantha has vanished. There are rumors that she is at Villa Vedia, but they seem as baseless as the rumor of a party of horsemen conveying a ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... Immediately below, extending for many miles, including St. Denis and other villages, are fine plains; upon which plains about 3 in the morning the Russians deployed, and the Spectacle must have been interesting beyond measure.... On the heights and towards the base were assembled part of Marmont's[45] army with their field pieces and some few heavier guns; there, too, were stationed the greater part of the students of l'Ecole Polytechnique, corresponding to our Woolwich cadets. Nothing ...
— Before and after Waterloo - Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802;1814;1814) • Edward Stanley


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