What is base?

More definitions of "base":

• (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): The bottom or lowest part.
  Example: "The base of the mountain"

• (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): 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): (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place.
  Synonyms: radix

• (adj): (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal.
  Example: "Base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

• (noun): (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment.
  Example: "The base of the skull"

• (noun): The most important or necessary part of something.
  Synonyms: basis

• (verb): Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes.
  Synonyms: free-base

• (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

• (noun): A support or foundation.
  Example: "The base of the lamp"
  Synonyms: pedestal, stand

• (noun): The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.
  Synonyms: basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone

• (noun): Lowest support of a structure.
  Example: "It was built on a base of solid rock"
  Synonyms: foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure

• (adj): Illegitimate.
  Synonyms: baseborn

• (noun): A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit.
  Example: "A tub should sit on its own base"

• (adj): Serving as or forming a base.
  Example: "The painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
  Synonyms: basal

• (adj): Of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense).
  Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly

• (verb): Use as a basis for; found on.
  Example: "Base a claim on some observation"
  Synonyms: establish, ground, found

• (noun): (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.
  Synonyms: root, root word, stem, theme, radical

• (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"

• (noun): Place that runner must touch before scoring.
  Synonyms: bag

• (noun): Installation from which a military force initiates operations.
  Synonyms: base of operations

• (adj): Debased; not genuine.
  Example: "An attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

• (noun): The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed.
  Example: "The base of the triangle"

• (noun): (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector.

• (noun): A lower limit.
  Synonyms: floor

• (noun): The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end.
  Synonyms: home

• (verb): Assign to a station.
  Synonyms: station, post, send, place

Famous quotes containing the word base:

“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)