What is base?

More definitions of "base":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (adj): Illegitimate.
  Synonyms: baseborn

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

• (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"

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word base:

“All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame,
False to my passion, fatal to my fame,
Through what mistaken magic dost thou prove
So true to lewdness, so untrue to love?”
—John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)

“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)