Some articles on base, bases:
K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base - History - Legacy
... Sawyer AFB was a favorite base among the SAC community ... Although isolated and definitely northern, it was an attractive base for its pleasing North Woods location and its proximity to outdoor activities off the base, including hunting, fishing, boating ... While the base was sometimes referred to as "K.I ...
... Sawyer AFB was a favorite base among the SAC community ... Although isolated and definitely northern, it was an attractive base for its pleasing North Woods location and its proximity to outdoor activities off the base, including hunting, fishing, boating ... While the base was sometimes referred to as "K.I ...
Antiprism
... Antiprisms are similar to prisms except the bases are twisted relative to each other, and that the side faces are triangles, rather than quadrilaterals ... In the case of a regular n-sided base, one usually considers the case where its copy is twisted by an angle 180°/n ... Extra regularity is obtained by the line connecting the base centers being perpendicular to the base planes, making it a right antiprism ...
... Antiprisms are similar to prisms except the bases are twisted relative to each other, and that the side faces are triangles, rather than quadrilaterals ... In the case of a regular n-sided base, one usually considers the case where its copy is twisted by an angle 180°/n ... Extra regularity is obtained by the line connecting the base centers being perpendicular to the base planes, making it a right antiprism ...
Tristan Da Cunha - History - 19th Century
... been a measure to ensure that the French would not be able to use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena ... United States from using Tristan da Cunha as a base, as they had during the War of 1812 ... Whalers also set up on the islands as a base for operations in the Southern Atlantic ...
... been a measure to ensure that the French would not be able to use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena ... United States from using Tristan da Cunha as a base, as they had during the War of 1812 ... Whalers also set up on the islands as a base for operations in the Southern Atlantic ...
K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base
... Sawyer Air Force Base is a decommissioned U.S ... Air Force base in Marquette County, Michigan, southeast of the city of Marquette ... The base, near the center of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, operated for nearly forty years and closed in 1995 ...
... Sawyer Air Force Base is a decommissioned U.S ... Air Force base in Marquette County, Michigan, southeast of the city of Marquette ... The base, near the center of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, operated for nearly forty years and closed in 1995 ...
Bishkek - Transportation - Air
... the United States obtained the right to use Manas International Airport as an air base for its military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq ... Russia subsequently (2003) established an air base of its own (Kant Air Base) near Kant some 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Bishkek ...
... the United States obtained the right to use Manas International Airport as an air base for its military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq ... Russia subsequently (2003) established an air base of its own (Kant Air Base) near Kant some 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Bishkek ...
More definitions of "base":
- (noun): Place that runner must touch before scoring.
Synonyms: bag
- (noun): The principal ingredient of a mixture.
Example: "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"
- (adj): Serving as or forming a base.
Example: "The painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
Synonyms: basal
- (noun): (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector.
- (noun): The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.
Synonyms: basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone
- (noun): A lower limit.
Synonyms: floor
- (noun): Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
Synonyms: alkali
- (noun): (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment.
Example: "The base of the skull"
- (noun): The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed.
Example: "The base of the triangle"
- (noun): (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.
Synonyms: root, root word, stem, theme, radical
- (noun): (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place.
Synonyms: radix
- (verb): Use as a basis for; found on.
Example: "Base a claim on some observation"
Synonyms: establish, ground, found
- (noun): The most important or necessary part of something.
Synonyms: basis
- (noun): 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.
Synonyms: al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida
- (adj): Debased; not genuine.
Example: "An attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
- (adj): Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.
Example: "That liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke
Synonyms: mean, meanspirited
- (noun): A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit.
Example: "A tub should sit on its own base"
- (noun): The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end.
Synonyms: home
- (noun): The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area.
Example: "The industrial base of Japan"
Synonyms: infrastructure
- (noun): Lowest support of a structure.
Example: "It was built on a base of solid rock"
Synonyms: foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
- (noun): Installation from which a military force initiates operations.
Synonyms: base of operations
- (verb): Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes.
Synonyms: free-base
- (noun): The bottom or lowest part.
Example: "The base of the mountain"
- (adj): Not adhering to ethical or moral principles.
Example: "Base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"
Synonyms: dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical
- (adj): (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal.
Example: "Base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
Famous quotes containing the word base:
“No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“Report of fashions in proud Italy,
Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation
Limps after in base imitation.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapors that did seem to strangle him”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)