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Verb: base beys- Use as a basis for; found on
"base a claim on some observation" - establish, ground, found - Situate as a centre of operations
"we will base this project in the new lab" - Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- free-base Adjective: base (baser,basest) beys- Serving as or forming a base
"the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" - basal - (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
"base coins of aluminium"; "a base metal" - Not adhering to ethical or moral principles
"base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life" - immoral - Having or showing an ignoble lack of honour or morality
"that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble" - mean, meanspirited - Debased; not genuine
"an attempt to eliminate the base coinage" - [archaic] Of low birth or station
- baseborn, humble, lowly - [archaic] Illegitimate
- baseborn [archaic] Noun: base beys- Installation from which a military force initiates operations
"the attack wiped out our forward bases" - base of operations - Lowest support of a structure
"it was built on a base of solid rock" - foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure - A place that the runner must touch before scoring
- bag - 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
- floor - The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone - A support or foundation
"the base of the lamp" - pedestal, stand - A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- nucleotide - 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 - 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
- basis - (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- radix - The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- home - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- root, root word, stem, theme, radical - The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
"the industrial base of Japan" - infrastructure - 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
Noun: Base- 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, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida
Sounds like: bass Derived forms: baser, bases, basing, basest, based See also: basal, basely, baseness, basic, basify, basilar, counterfeit, ignoble, illegitimate, imitative, inferior, lowborn, wrong Type of: assumption, baseball equipment, bottom, chemical compound, component, component part, compound, constituent, control, descriptor, do drugs, drug, electrode, ester, flank, foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, form, FTO, fund, ingredient, locate, location, military installation, number, part, piece, portion, signifier, situate, stock, store, support, supposal, supposition, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization, underside, undersurface, word form Part of: baseball diamond, box, construction, diamond, electronic transistor, explanation, infield, junction transistor, lamp, structure, transistor, vessel Encyclopedia: Base |