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base

• (s) serving as or forming a base
  • the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats
  basal,
• (s) of low birth or station ("base" is archaic in this sense)
  • baseborn wretches with dirty faces
  • of humble (or lowly) birth
  baseborn, humble, lowly,
• (s) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
  • base coins of aluminum
  • a base metal
• (s) not adhering to ethical or moral principles
  • base and unpatriotic motives
  • a base, degrading way of life
  • cheating is dishonorable
  • they considered colonialism immoral
  • unethical practices in handling public funds
  immoral,
• (s) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
  • that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble - Edmund Burke
  • taking a mean advantage
  • chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort - Shakespeare
  • something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics
  meanspirited, mean,
• (s) illegitimate baseborn,
• (s) debased; not genuine
  • an attempt to eliminate the base coinage

Nouns

• (n) installation from which a military force initiates operations
  • the attack wiped out our forward bases
  base of operations,
• (n) lowest support of a structure
  • it was built on a base of solid rock
  • he stood at the foot of the tower
  understructure, groundwork, substructure, foundation, fundament, foot,
• (n) a place that the runner must touch before scoring
  • he scrambled to get back to the bag
  bag,
• (n) the bottom or lowest part
  • the base of the mountain
• (n) (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
  • the base of the skull
• (n) a lower limit
  • the government established a wage floor
  floor,
• (n) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
  • the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture
  cornerstone, fundament, groundwork, basis, foundation,
• (n) a support or foundation
  • the base of the lamp
  pedestal, stand,
• (n) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) nucleotide,
• (n) 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
  alkali,
• (n) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
  • the base of the triangle
• (n) the most important or necessary part of something
  • the basis of this drink is orange juice
  basis,
• (n) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
  • 10 is the radix of the decimal system
  radix,
• (n) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end home,
• (n) 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 al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, al-Qa'ida, Qaeda,
• (n) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  • thematic vowels are part of the stem
  root word, stem, root, theme, radical,
• (n) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
  • the industrial base of Japan
  infrastructure,
• (n) 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
• (n) a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
  • a tub should sit on its own base
• (n) (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

Verbs

• (v) use as a basis for; found on
  • base a claim on some observation
  found, establish, ground,
• (v) situate as a center of operations
  • we will base this project in the new lab
• (v) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes free-base,

Synonyms

basal base of operations found establish ground understructure groundwork substructure foundation fundament foot baseborn humble lowly free-base bag immoral meanspirited mean floor cornerstone basis pedestal stand nucleotide alkali radix home al-Qaeda al-Qaida al-Qa'ida Qaeda root word stem root theme radical infrastructure

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