base
IPA: bˈeɪs
noun
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
- Important areas in games and sports.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace..)
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (archaic) The housing of a horse.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
- (obsolete) An apron.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- (music) Dated form of bass. [A low spectrum of sound tones.]
- (aviation) Short for base leg. [(aviation) The part of a landing before final approach, flown downwind of and at right angles to the runway.]
- Alternative form of BASE
- Acronym of building, antenna-tower, span, earth. [(uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.]
verb
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (slang) To freebase.
adjective
- (obsolete) Low in height; short.
- Low in place or position.
- (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
- (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
- Not classical or correct.
- (law) Not held by honourable service.
- Obsolete form of bass. [Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.]
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Examples of "base" in Sentences
- The base of the skin is pegged to the ground.
- The bases are usually securely fastened to the ground.
- _ _The base is right_; 'tis the _base knave that jars_.
- A triangulate plate is attached to the bottom of the base.
- The winding key was located at the bottom of the lamp base.
- It forages on the ground or at the base of trees for insects.
- But everybody who gets assigned to the base is a little quirky.
- The road to the base was vulnerable to high ground and ambushes.
- The base of the ride is above ground with the top of the ride at.
- The base cards on the top and bottom of the columns are turned sideways.
- No, it simply shows that his base is as stubborn and hard-headed as he is.
- The bottom of the base is corrugated, the bottom of the trays are corrugated.
- The center of the bulged portion of the bottom wall is coplanar with the base.
- Ask your compiler: struct base {virtual ~base (); virtual void f () const; struct derived: base {
- Everyone flies into a PANIC, * Not OUR Base** The base is essential to the local economy** Not our base*
- Mike, explain what you understand is the term base realignment, what it means and what people are concerned about there.
- This year alone, the base is averaging over 10 suicides each month – at least 75 have been recorded through July of this year alone.
- A few consultants will also be hired to handle the shared translation memories, the term base, develop the style guides, and tune the machine translation engine.
- The only candiodate who will ever do anything for the Clinton and McCain base is Barack Obama, but these people are too frightened (if not delusional like their candidates) to realise that.
- # Add autocompletion to cs function function _cs_scandir local base ext base = $1 ext = $2 if [- d $base]; then for d in ` ls $base `; do if [- d $base/$d]; then dirs = "$dirs $ext$d/" fi local cur dirs