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base
English
- 🔊 debased“an attempt to eliminate the base coinage”
- 🔊 illegitimate
- 🔊 having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality“that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble”
- 🔊 of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)“baseborn wretches with dirty faces”
- 🔊 not adhering to ethical or moral principles“base and unpatriotic motives”
- 🔊 (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal“base coins of aluminum”
- 🔊 serving as or forming a base“the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats”
- 🔊 a support or foundation“the base of the lamp”
- 🔊 a place that the runner must touch before scoring“he scrambled to get back to the bag”
- 🔊 (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- 🔊 installation from which a military force initiates operations“the attack wiped out our forward bases”
- 🔊 a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit“a tub should sit on its own base”
- 🔊 the principal ingredient of a mixture“glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments”
- 🔊 the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- 🔊 (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment“the base of the skull”
- 🔊 the bottom or lowest part“the base of the mountain”
- 🔊 (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place“10 is the radix of the decimal system”
- 🔊 the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed“the base of the triangle”
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 lowest support of a structure“it was built on a base of solid rock”
- 🔊 the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area“the industrial base of Japan”
- 🔊 the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained“the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture”
- 🔊 a lower limit“the government established a wage floor”
- 🔊 the most important or necessary part of something“the basis of this drink is orange juice”
- 🔊 a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside
- 🔊 (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed“thematic vowels are part of the stem”
- 🔊 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
- 🔊 situate as a center of operations“we will base this project in the new lab”
- 🔊 use as a basis for“base a claim on some observation”
- 🔊 use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
Spanish
- 🔊 basa base
- 🔊 base base
- 🔊 campaña base
- 🔊 bajo base, mean, low, despicable