Dictionary Definition
base adj
1 serving as or forming a base; "the painter
applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" [syn: basal]
2 (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with
inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
3 of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in
this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or
lowly) birth" [syn: baseborn, humble, lowly]
4 not adhering to ethical or moral principles;
"base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life";
"cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral";
"unethical practices in handling public funds" [syn: dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical]
5 having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or
morality; "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" [syn: mean, meanspirited]
6 illegitimate [syn: baseborn]
7 debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate
the base coinage"
Noun
1 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"
[syn: alkali]
2 installation from which a military force
initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
[syn: base of
operations]
3 lowest support of a structure; "it was built on
a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn:
foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure]
4 place that runner must touch before scoring;
"he scrambled to get back to the bag" [syn: bag]
5 (numeration system) the positive integer that
is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the
radix of the decimal system" [syn: radix]
6 the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the
mountain"
7 (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its
point of attachment; "the base of the skull"
8 a lower limit; "the government established a
wage floor" [syn: floor]
9 the fundamental assumptions from which
something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the
whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone]
11 the bottom side of a geometric figure from
which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the
triangle"
12 the most important or necessary part of
something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice" [syn: basis]
13 the place where you are stationed and from
which missions start and end [syn: home]
14 an intensely anti-western terrorist network
that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide
variety of radical Islamic terrorist group; has cells in more than
50 countries [syn: al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida,
al-Qaida]
15 (linguistics) the form of a word after all
affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn:
root, root word,
stem, theme, radical]
16 the stock of basic facilities and capital
equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the
industrial base of Japan" [syn: infrastructure]
17 the principal ingredient of a mixture;
"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"
18 a flat bottom on which something is intended
to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base"
19 (electronics) the part of a transistor that
separates the emitter from the collector
Verb
2 use (purified cocaine) by burning it and
inhaling the fumes [syn: free-base]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Base
English
Pronunciation
- bās, /beɪs/, /beIs/
Noun
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought.
- A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek
- The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- One of the three places that a runner can stand in safety.
- biology biochemistry A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- The end of a leaf,petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- The name of the controlling terminal of a transistor.
- The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
- The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- acid
- sense end of a leaf apex
Derived terms
- air base
- base bag
- baseball
- baseband
- baseboard
- base box
- base-burner
- base camp
- base censor
- base coat
- base color/base colour
- base course
- base exchange
- base hospital
- baseless
- baselevel
- baseline
- basely
- base load
- baseman
- basement
- base molding/base moulding
- base out
- base over apex
- baseplate
- base-player
- base-playing
- base point
- base port
- base rate
- base ring
- baserunner
- base-running
- base ship
- base shoot
- base squadron
- base-stealer
- base-stealing
- base substitution
- base table
- base unit
- base wallah
- counterbase
- database
- debase
- first base
- freebase
- home base
- knowledge base
- leuco-base
- make first base
- off base
- power base
- prisoner's base, prisoners' base
- second base
- subbase
- surbase
- third base
- wheelbase
Related terms
Translations
foundation
- Arabic: ,
- Catalan: base , fonament
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 基礎, 基础 (jī chǔ)
- Crimean Tatar: baza
- Dutch: basis
- Finnish: perustus, pohja (concrete), perusta (figurative)
- French: base
- German: Basis, Grundlage
- Hebrew: בסיס
- Hungarian: alap
- Italian: basi
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: base
- Slovene: temelj
- Spanish: base
- Swedish: grund
- Telugu: పీఠం
- Turkish: temel
starting point
permanent structure for housing a military
- Arabic:
- Catalan: base , caserna
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 基地, 基地 (jī dì)
- Crimean Tatar: baza
- Czech: základna
- Dutch: basis, kazerne
- Finnish: tukikohta
- French: base, caserne
- German: Kaserne , Basis
- Hebrew: בסיס
- Ido: kazerno
- Italian: base, caserma
- Portuguese: base
- Slovene: baza , oporišče
- Swedish: bas
- Telugu: స్థావరం
- Turkish: üs
headquarters
chemical compound that will neutralize an acid
safe zone in children's game
lowermost part of a column
baseball: one of the three places that a runner
can stand in safety
- Finnish: pesä
colloquial term for a nucleotide
end of a leaf,petal or similar organ where it is
attached to its support
- Finnish: kanta
electronics: controlling terminal of a
transistor
- Crimean Tatar: baza
- Finnish: kanta
lower, horizontal line in a triangle or the
horizontal plane of a 3D object
number raised to the power of an exponent
(mathematics)
- Czech: základ
- Finnish: kanta
Verb
- To have as its foundation or starting point.
- To be located (at a particular place).
Translations
have as its foundation or starting point
- Arabic: (yubna), (yastaned)
- Catalan: basar
- Dutch: baseren, zich baseren op
- Finnish: perustaa
- French: baser
- German: basieren
- Interlingua: basar
- Portuguese: basar
- Spanish: basar
- Volapük: stabön
be located
Adjective
- low
- inferior
- immoral
- common
- nonprecious used to describe metals which are not precious; base metal
Translations
low
inferior
immoral
- Arabic:
- Catalan: immoral
- Finnish: moraaliton, säädytön
common
nonprecious metal
- Greek: αγενής
Derived terms
- base-born
- base-bred
- base coin
- base estate
- base fee
- basely
- base metal
- base-minded
- baseness
- base-spirited
- base tenant
- base tenure
- base-witted
See also
Italian
Etymology
basis.Spanish
Noun
Extensive Definition
Base or BASE may refer to:
- Base meaning bottom, the lowest part of an object.
In mathematics:
- Base (mathematics), the number b in an expression of the form bn, hence also the number of digits (known also as the radix) in a positional numeral system, for example, base 10
- Base (topology), a topological space
- Base (group theory)
- One of the sides of a trapezoid or triangle
In the sciences''':
- Base (chemistry), a substance that can accept hydrogen ions (protons)
- Base pair, a pair of connected nucleotides on complementary DNA and RNA strands
- Nucleobase, in genetics, the parts of DNA and RNA involved in forming base pairs
In other fields:
- Base (politics), a group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates
- Base (baseball), the 3 canvas bags and home plate
- Military base, or non-military base, which provides shelter, military equipment and personnel
- Cooking base, a concentrated flavouring compound
- (Bipolar junction transistor), Base Switch that controls current in a transistor
- Beta-alumina solid electrolyte, a fast ion conductor material used as a membrane in several types of molten salt electrochemical cell.
Base may also refer to:
- Bedini Audio Spectral Enhancer, an audio signal processor used in the early 1990s
- Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute
- BASE (search engine), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy, an organization under the United Nations Environment Programme
- BASE jumping
- BASE (mobile), a Belgium mobile telecommunications operator
- Google Base, an online database provided by Google
- OpenOffice.org Base, OpenOffice.org's database module
- Budapest Aircraft Services, an airline based in Budapest, Hungary
- One of three connections on a transistor
- The binder which holds paint or other materials together
- The bottom of a building or other structure, often a foundation
- A part of some types of column, below the shaft
- A pedestal, supporting a statue or other item
- A lifter in a cheerleading stunt
- A slang term for the drug amphetamine
- part of the Marxist theory of Base and superstructure
- A series of baseball-derived euphemisms for sexual activity
References
base in Catalan: Base
base in German: Base
base in Spanish: Base
base in French: Base
base in Galician: Base
base in Hebrew: בסיס
base in Latvian: bāze
base in Dutch: Base
base in Japanese: 基地
base in Portuguese: Base
base in Slovenian: Baza
base in Thai: เบส
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
CP,
GHQ, HQ, Mickey Mouse, abhorrent, abject, abominable, acid, acidity, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anchor, angle, anion, antacid, antecedents, arrant, atom, atrocious, awful, background, bad, baluster, balustrade, banister, base of operations,
base-minded, baseboard, baseborn, basement, basis, bearing wall, beastly, bed, bed on, bedding, bedrock, beggarly, below contempt,
beneath contempt, biochemical, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, bolster, bottom, bottom on, brutal, build, build in, build on,
buttress, caitiff, call, camp, caryatid, cation, causation, cause, cause and effect, center of
authority, central administration, central office, central station,
chassis, cheap, cheesy, chemical, chemical element,
chromoisomer, clown
white, coarse, cold
cream, collector,
colonnade, column, command post, common, compact, company headquarters,
compound, construct, contemptible, copolymer, core, corrupt, cosmetics, counterfeit, cowardly, craven, criminal, crude, crummy, dado, damnable, dark, dastard, dastardly, debased, deficient, degraded, degrading, deplorable, depraved, derive, despicable, determinant, determinative, detestable, die, dimer, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, distance, downtrodden, draw, dreadful, drugstore complexion,
dunghill, dunghilly, egregious, element, emitter, enormous, establish, etiology, evil, evil-minded, execrable, eye shadow, eyebrow
pencil, factor, fake, fetid, filamentary transistor,
filthy, fix, flagitious, flagrant, floor, flooring, fond, foot, footing, footstalk, forbidding, forged, form, foul, found, found on, foundation, foundation cream,
fourth-class, frame,
framework, fraudulent, fulsome, fundament, fundamental, general
headquarters, germanium crystal triode, grave, greasepaint, grievous, gross, ground, ground on, grounds, groundwork, hand cream, hand
lotion, hardpan,
hateful, headquarters, heavy
chemicals, heinous, high
polymer, hinge, home, homopolymer, hook-collector
transistor, horrible,
horrid, humble, humiliating, hydracid, ignoble, ignominious, imperfect, improper, inadequate, incompetent, indecent, infamous, inferior, infra dig, infrastructure, iniquitous, inorganic
chemical, install,
insufferable,
insufficient,
invest, ion, irregular, isomer, jack, keel, knavish, lamentable, lascivious, lay the
foundation, lewd, line of
departure, lip rouge, lipstick, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade,
low-minded, low-quality, low-test, lowborn, lower strata, lowest
level, lowest point, lowly, lumpen, macromolecule, main
office, makeup, maladroit, malodorous, mangy, mascara, mean, measly, mediocre, menial, mephitic, metamer, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, molecule, monomer, monstrous, mopboard, mudpack, nadir, nail polish, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, neutralizer, newel-post,
noisome, nonacid, not comparable, not in
it, notorious,
noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, occasion, odious, offensive, organic chemical,
ornery, out of it,
outrageous, oxyacid, paint, paltry, pavement, peccant, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, perspective, petty, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pinchbeck, pitch, pitiable, pitiful, place, plant, plebeian, plinth, point of departure,
point-contact transistor, poky, pole, poltroon, poltroonish, polymer, poor, pornographic, port of
embarkation, position,
post, powder, powder puff, predicate, principle, profane, prop, pseudoisomer, puff, punk, pusillanimous, put in, put
up, queen-post, radical,
rank, rascally, reagent, rebarbative, recreant, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, rest, revolting, ribald, riprap, rock bottom, roguish, root, rotten, rouge, rubbishy, rude, rudiment, sad, scabby, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurrilous, scurvy, seat, seating, second-best,
second-class, secure,
seedy, selfish, servile, set, set on, set up, shabby, shaft, shameful, shocking, shoddy, shoemold, sickening, sill, sinful, slavish, sleazy, small, socle, sole, solid ground, solid rock,
sordid, sorry, spacistor, spurious, squalid, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, standing, start, starting gate, starting
place, starting point, starting post, station, status, stay, stem, stereobate, stimulus, stinking, stylobate, subbase, submissive, subservient, substratum, substruction, substructure, sulfacid, support, surbase, tacky, takeoff, talcum, talcum powder, tatty, terra firma, terrible, tetrode transistor,
theme, third-class,
third-rate, tinny,
toe, too bad, transistor, trashy, trimer, trivial, trunk, ugly, unclean, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergird, undergirding, underlie, underlying level,
underpinning,
understruction,
understructure,
undignified,
unforgivable,
unipolar transistor, unmentionable, unpardonable, unseemly, unskillful, unspeakable, unwashed, unworthy, upright, vanishing cream, vanity
case, venue, vest, vicious, viewpoint, vile, villainous, vulgar, wainscot, war paint, warrant, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong