| base | | |
| base, base of operations | (n.) | installation from which a military force initiates operations.; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" |
| base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure | (n.) | lowest support of a structure.; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" |
| bag, base | (n.) | a place that the runner must touch before scoring.; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" |
| base | (n.) | the bottom or lowest part.; "the base of the mountain" |
| base | (n.) | (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment.; "the base of the skull" |
| base, floor | (n.) | a lower limit.; "the government established a wage floor" |
| base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork | (n.) | the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" |
| base, pedestal, stand | (n.) | a support or foundation.; "the base of the lamp" |
| base, nucleotide | (n.) | a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA). |
| alkali, base | (n.) | 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" |
| base | (n.) | the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed.; "the base of the triangle" |
| base, basis | (n.) | the most important or necessary part of something.; "the basis of this drink is orange juice" |
| base, radix | (n.) | (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place.; "10 is the radix of the decimal system" |
| base, home | (n.) | the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end. |
| al-qa'ida, al-qaeda, al-qaida, base, qaeda | (n.) | 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. |
| base, radical, root, root word, stem, theme | (n.) | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" |
| base, infrastructure | (n.) | the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area.; "the industrial base of Japan" |
| base | (n.) | 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" |
| base | (n.) | a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit.; "a tub should sit on its own base" |
| base | (n.) | (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector. |
| base, establish, found, ground | (v.) | use as a basis for; found on.; "base a claim on some observation" |
| base | (v.) | situate as a center of operations.; "we will base this project in the new lab" |
| base, free-base | (v.) | use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes. |
| basal, base | (adj.) | serving as or forming a base.; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" |
| base, baseborn, humble, lowly | (adj.) | of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense).; "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" |
| base | (adj.) | (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal.; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal" |
| base, immoral | (adj.) | 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" |
| base, mean, meanspirited | (adj.) | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" |
| base, baseborn | (adj.) | illegitimate. |
| base | (adj.) | debased; not genuine.; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage" |
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