Main entry: base, stand, pedestal
Definition: a support or foundation
Usage: the base of the lamp
Definition: a place that the runner must touch before scoring
Usage: he scrambled to get back to the bag
Main entry: base
Definition: (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
Main entry: base, base of operations
Definition: installation from which a military force initiates operations
Usage: the attack wiped out our forward bases
Main entry: base
Definition: a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
Usage: a tub should sit on its own base
Main entry: base
Definition: the principal ingredient of a mixture
Usage: 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
Main entry: foot, foundation, fundament, base, understructure, substructure, groundwork
Definition: lowest support of a structure
Usage: it was built on a base of solid rock; he stood at the foot of the tower
Main entry: infrastructure, base
Definition: the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
Usage: the industrial base of Japan
Main entry: foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone, base, basis
Definition: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
Usage: the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture
Main entry: stem, theme, base, root, root word, radical
Definition: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
Usage: thematic vowels are part of the stem
Definition: a lower limit
Usage: the government established a wage floor
Main entry: al-Qa'ida, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Base, Qaeda
Definition: 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
Definition: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
Main entry: base
Definition: (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
Usage: the base of the skull
Main entry: base
Definition: the bottom or lowest part
Usage: the base of the mountain
Definition: (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
Usage: 10 is the radix of the decimal system
Definition: the most important or necessary part of something
Usage: the basis of this drink is orange juice
Main entry: base
Definition: the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
Usage: the base of the triangle
Definition: any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
Usage: bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia
Main entry: nucleotide, base
Definition: a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Main entry: found, establish, ground, base
Definition: use as a basis for; found on
Usage: base a claim on some observation
Definition: use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
Main entry: base
Definition: situate as a center of operations
Usage: we will base this project in the new lab
Main entry: base
Definition: debased; not genuine
Usage: an attempt to eliminate the base coinage
Definition: illegitimate
Main entry: base, mean, meanspirited
Definition: having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
Usage: 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
Main entry: lowly, base, baseborn, humble
Definition: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
Usage: baseborn wretches with dirty faces; of humble (or lowly) birth
Definition: serving as or forming a base
Usage: the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats
Definition: not adhering to ethical or moral principles
Usage: base and unpatriotic motives; a base, degrading way of life; cheating is dishonorable; they considered colonialism immoral; unethical practices in handling public funds
Main entry: base
Definition: (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
Usage: base coins of aluminum; a base metal