base

Meanings

• installation from which a military force initiates operations
  • "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
• lowest support of a structure
  • "it was built on a base of solid rock"
• a place that the runner must touch before scoring
• the bottom or lowest part
  • "the base of the mountain"
• (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
  • "the base of the skull"
• a lower limit
• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
• a support or foundation
  • "the base of the lamp"
• a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
• 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"
• the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
  • "the base of the triangle"
• the most important or necessary part of something
• (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
• the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
• 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
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
  • "the industrial base of Japan"
• 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"
• a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
  • "a tub should sit on its own base"
• (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
• use as a basis for; found on
  • "base a claim on some observation"
• situate as a center of operations
  • "we will base this project in the new lab"
• use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
• serving as or forming a base
  • "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
  • "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"
• (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
  • "base coins of aluminum"
  • "a base metal"
• not adhering to ethical or moral principles
  • "base and unpatriotic motives"
  • "a base, degrading way of life"
• having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; - Edmund Burke; ; - Shakespeare
  • "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"
• illegitimate
• debased; not genuine
  • "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

Synonyms

al-Qa'ida, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, alkali, bag, basal, base of operations, baseborn, basis, cornerstone, establish, floor, foot, found, foundation, free-base, fundament, ground, groundwork, home, humble, immoral, infrastructure, lowly, mean, meanspirited, nucleotide, pedestal, Qaeda, radical, radix, root, root word, stand, stem, substructure, theme, understructure