Definitions for Base

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Base base

Spelling: [beys]

IPA: /beɪs/

Base is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Base (abes).

Definitions for Base

noun

1. the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests:
2. a fundamental principle or groundwork; foundation; basis:
3. the bottom layer or coating, as of makeup or paint.
4. Architecture. the distinctively treated portion of a column or pier below the shaft or shafts. the distinctively treated lowermost portion of any construction, as a monument, exterior wall, etc.
5. Botany, Zoology. the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment. the point of attachment.
6. the principal element or ingredient of anything, considered as its fundamental part:
7. that from which a commencement, as of action or reckoning, is made; a starting point or point of departure.
8. Baseball. any of the four corners of the diamond, especially first, second, or third base. Compare home plate. a square canvas sack containing sawdust or some other light material, for marking first, second, or third base.
9. a starting line or point for runners, racing cars, etc.
10. (in hockey and other games) the goal.
11. Military. a fortified or more or less protected area or place from which the operations of an army or an air force proceed. a supply installation for a large military force.
12. Geometry. the line or surface forming the part of a figure that is most nearly horizontal or on which it is supposed to stand.
13. Mathematics. the number that serves as a starting point for a logarithmic or other numerical system. a collection of subsets of a topological space having the property that every open set in the given topology can be written as the union of sets of the collection. a collection of neighborhoods of a point such that every neighborhood of the point contains one from the collection. a collection of sets of a given filter such that every set in the filter is contained in some set in the collection.
14. Also called base line. Surveying. See under triangulation (def 1).
15. Painting. vehicle (def 10). Also called carrier. inert matter, used in the preparation of lakes, onto which a coloring compound is precipitated.
16. Photography. a thin, flexible layer of cellulose triacetate or similar material that holds the light-sensitive film emulsion and other coatings, especially on motion-picture film.
17. Chemistry. a compound that reacts with an acid to form a salt, as ammonia, calcium hydroxide, or certain nitrogen-containing organic compounds. the hydroxide of a metal or of an electropositive element or group. a group or molecule that takes up or accepts protons. a molecule or ion containing an atom with a free pair of electrons that can be donated to an acid; an electron-pair donor. any of the purine and pyrimidine compounds found in nucleic acids: the purines adenine and guanine and the pyrimidines cytosine, thymine, and uracil.
18. Grammar. the part of a complex word, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which derivational or inflectional affixes may be added, as want in unwanted or biolog- in biological. Compare root1 (def 12), stem1 (def 16).
19. Linguistics. the component of a generative grammar containing the lexicon and phrase-structure rules that generate the deep structure of sentences.
20. Electronics. an electrode or terminal on a transistor other than the emitter or collector electrodes or terminals. the part of an incandescent lamp or electron tube that includes the terminals for making electrical connection to a circuit or power supply.
21. Stock Exchange. the level at which a security ceases a decline in price.
22. Heraldry. the lower part of an escutcheon.
23. bases, Armor. a tonlet formed of two shaped steel plates assembled side by side.
24. Jewelry. pavilion (def 6).
25. in base, Heraldry. in the lower part of an escutcheon.
26. Music Obsolete. bass1 (defs 3, 4).
27. a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
28. the triangles thus formed and measured.

Idioms

1. get to first base. first base (def 2).
2. off base, Baseball. not touching a base: Informal. badly mistaken:
3. on base, Baseball. having reached a base or bases:
4. touch base with, to make contact with:

adjective

1. serving as or forming a base:
2. morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly.
3. of little or no value; worthless:
4. debased or counterfeit:
5. characteristic of or befitting an inferior person or thing.
6. of illegitimate birth.
7. not classical or refined:
8. Old English Law. held by tenure less than freehold in return for a service viewed as somewhat demeaning to the tenant.
9. Archaic. of humble origin or station. of small height. low in place, position, or degree:
10. Obsolete. deep or grave in sound; bass:

verb (used with object)

1. to make or form a base or foundation for.
2. to establish, as a fact or conclusion (usually followed by on or upon):
3. to place or establish on a base or basis; ground; found (usually followed by on or upon):
4. to station, place, or situate (usually followed by at or on):

verb (used without object)

1. to have a basis; be based (usually followed by on or upon):
2. to have or maintain a base:

Origin of Base

1275-1325; Middle English (noun) Middle French Latin basis basis; cf. prisoner's base

Examples for Base

The bearers of this base proposal were admitted to the palace.

Manifestly, Shakespeare is thinking of Herbert and his base betrayal.

The man was placed horizontally on a base board beneath the spar.

Shortly after the base fell militants started tweeting photographs of MANPADS, both the Russian-made SA-16 and SA-18.

A stream of water, pure as crystal, flowed along the path, from the summit to the base.

It comes out of a subconsciousness in which death and not life is the base.

If ISIS “came into a base and killed hundreds of troops, then people would ask a lot more questions.”

However, the Republican base will be far less forgiving of Paul for his criticism of police policy and his courtship of Sharpton.

In the weeks following the Sept. 9, car bombing at the Iranian base, Iran raided a village in the Pakistani district of Chagai.

However, intellectual honesty is the first thing to go when you are forced to constantly pander to your base.