Base vs. Basis
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Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
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A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
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The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
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A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
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The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
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A basic but essential component or ingredient.
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A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
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(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
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(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
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Important areas in games and sports.
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A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
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(baseball) One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.
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(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
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A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
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(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
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(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
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(geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
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(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
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(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
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(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
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(mathematics) lang=en.
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(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
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(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
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In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
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(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
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(music) lang=en
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The smallest kind of cannon.
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(archaic) The housing of a horse.
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A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
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(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
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(obsolete) An apron.
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A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
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The game of prisoners' bars.
Baseverb
(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
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(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
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To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
Baseadjective
(obsolete) Low in height; short.
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Low in place or position.
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(obsolete) Of low value or degree.
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(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
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Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
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Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
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Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
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Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
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(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
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Not classical or correct.
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obsolete form of bass
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(legal) Not held by honourable service.
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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
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Low in place or position.
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Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
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Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
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Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
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Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
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Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
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Not classical or correct.
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Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
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Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
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The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
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Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
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The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
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That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
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The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; - applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
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The chief ingredient in a compound.
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A substance used as a mordant.
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The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
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The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
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The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
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A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
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A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
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The smallest kind of cannon.
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That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
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The basal plane of a crystal.
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The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
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The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
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The housing of a horse.
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A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
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The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
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An apron.
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The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
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A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
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A rustic play; - called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
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Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
Baseverb
To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; - used with on or upon.
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To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
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To reduce the value of; to debase.
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any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water;
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installation from which a military force initiates operations;
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lowest support of a structure;
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place that runner must touch before scoring;
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(numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place;
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the bottom or lowest part;
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(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment;
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a lower limit;
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the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;
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a support or foundation;
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the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed;
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the most important or necessary part of something;
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the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
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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
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(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
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the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area;
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the principal ingredient of a mixture;
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a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit;
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(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
Baseverb
use as a basis for; found on;
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use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
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assign to a station
Baseadjective
serving as or forming a base;
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(used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal;
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of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
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not adhering to ethical or moral principles;
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having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;
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illegitimate
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debased; not genuine;
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the lowest part or edge of something, especially the part on which it rests or is supported
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the part of a column between the shaft and pedestal or pavement.
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the end at which a part or organ is attached to the trunk or main part
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a line or surface on which a figure is regarded as standing
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a known line used as a geometrical base for trigonometry.
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the lowest part of a shield.
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a conceptual structure or entity on which something draws or depends
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a foundation or starting point for further work
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a group of people regarded as supporting an organization, for example by buying its products
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a place used as a centre of operations by the armed forces or others; a headquarters
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the main place where a person works or stays
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a main or important element or ingredient to which other things are added
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a substance into which a pigment is mixed to form paint, such as water, oil, or powdered aluminium hydroxide.
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a substance used as a foundation for make-up
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a substance capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt and water, or (more broadly) of accepting or neutralizing hydrogen ions.
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a purine or pyrimidine group in a nucleotide or nucleic acid.
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the middle part of a bipolar transistor, separating the emitter from the collector.
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the root or stem of a word or a derivative.
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the uninflected form of a verb.
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a number used as the basis of a numeration scale.
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a number in terms of which other numbers are expressed as logarithms.
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each of the four stations that must be reached in turn to score a run.
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use (something specified) as the foundation or starting point for something
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situate at a specified place as the centre of operations
Baseadjective
without moral principles; ignoble
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denoting or befitting a person of low social class.
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(of coins or other articles) not made of precious metal
Basisnoun
A physical base or foundation.
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A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
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An underlying condition or circumstance.
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A regular frequency.
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(linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
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(accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
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(topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
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The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
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The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
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The groundwork; the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
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The principal component part of a thing.
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a relation that provides the foundation for something;
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the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;
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the most important or necessary part of something;
