English Dictionary

base

/beɪs/

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.

The base of the pyramid is wide and stable.

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Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

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A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.

Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

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The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

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A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.

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The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

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(cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.

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A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

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(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

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(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.

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A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.

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(baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.

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(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

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(biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

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(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.

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(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

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(geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.

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(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.

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(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.

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(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.

The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.

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(mathematics) Synonym of radix.

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(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

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(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

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(group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.

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(acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

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(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

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(music) Dated form of bass.

1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

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(military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.

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(archaic) The housing of a horse.

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(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.

Coordinate term: lamboys

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(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

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(obsolete) An apron.

bakers in their linen bases

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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.

Use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets.

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(politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.

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(Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.

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A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.

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(aviation) Short for base leg.

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(slang) freebase cocaine

TYLER LENNON(played by Louis Healy): Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high.