Touch vs. Base

Touchverb

Primarily physical senses.

Touchverb

(transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.

Touchverb

(transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

Touchverb

(intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.

Touchverb

(intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.

Touchverb

(transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.

Touchverb

(transitive) To cause to be briefly in contact with something.

Touchverb

(transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.

Touchverb

(transitive) To consume, or otherwise use.

Touchverb

(intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).

Touchverb

To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.

Touchverb

To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.

Touchverb

To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

Touchverb

(nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Touchverb

To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Touchverb

(nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.

Touchverb

Primarily non-physical senses.

Touchverb

(transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.

Touchverb

To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.

Touchverb

(intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).

Touchverb

(transitive) To concern, to have to do with.

Touchverb

(transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.

Touchverb

To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.

Touchverb

To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.

Touchverb

To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).

Touchverb

To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".

Touchverb

To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.

Touchverb

(transitive) To come close to; to approach.

Touchverb

To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.

Touchverb

To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

Touchverb

To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

Touchverb

(obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.

Touchverb

To strike; to manipulate; to play on.

Touchverb

To perform, as a tune; to play.

Touchverb

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

Touchnoun

An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.

Touchnoun

The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.

Touchnoun

The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.

Touchnoun

A distinguishing feature or characteristic.

Touchnoun

A little bit; a small amount.

Touchnoun

The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.

Touchnoun

A relationship of close communication or understanding.

Touchnoun

The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) An emotion or affection.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) Personal reference or application.

Touchnoun

A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) A brief essay.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

Touchnoun

(music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.

Touchnoun

(shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

Touchnoun

The children's game of tag.

Touchnoun

(bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.

Touchnoun

(slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.

Touchnoun

tallow

Touchverb

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

Touchverb

To perceive by the sense of feeling.

Touchverb

To come to; to reach; to attain to.

Touchverb

To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

Touchverb

To relate to; to concern; to affect.

Touchverb

To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

Touchverb

To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.

Touchverb

To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften; especially, to cause feelings of pity, compassion, sympathy, or gratitude in.

Touchverb

To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

Touchverb

To infect; to affect slightly.

Touchverb

To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

Touchverb

To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.

Touchverb

To perform, as a tune; to play.

Touchverb

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

Touchverb

To harm, afflict, or distress.

Touchverb

To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; - rarely used except in the past participle.

Touchverb

To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.

Touchverb

To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

Touchverb

To compare with; to be equal to; - usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire.

Touchverb

To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from.

Touchverb

To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.

Touchverb

To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

Touchverb

To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; - often with on or upon.

Touchverb

To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Touchnoun

The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

Touchnoun

The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.

Touchnoun

Act or power of exciting emotion.

Touchnoun

An emotion or affection.

Touchnoun

Personal reference or application.

Touchnoun

A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.

Touchnoun

A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

Touchnoun

Feature; lineament; trait.

Touchnoun

The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.

Touchnoun

A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.

Touchnoun

A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.

Touchnoun

A slight and brief essay.

Touchnoun

A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

Touchnoun

Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

Touchnoun

The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.

Touchnoun

The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

Touchnoun

That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.

Touchnoun

A boys' game; tag.

Touchnoun

A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040.

Touchnoun

An act of borrowing or stealing.

Touchnoun

Tallow; - a plumber's term.

Touchnoun

the event of something coming in contact with the body;

Touchnoun

the faculty of touch;

Touchnoun

a suggestion of some quality;

Touchnoun

a distinguishing style;

Touchnoun

the act of putting two things together with no space between them;

Touchnoun

a slight but appreciable addition;

Touchnoun

a communicative interaction;

Touchnoun

a slight attack of illness;

Touchnoun

the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan);

Touchnoun

the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin;

Touchnoun

deftness in handling matters;

Touchnoun

the feel of mechanical action;

Touchverb

make physical contact with, come in contact with;

Touchverb

perceive via the tactile sense;

Touchverb

affect emotionally;

Touchverb

have to do with or be relevant to;

Touchverb

be in direct physical contact with; make contact;

Touchverb

have an effect upon;

Touchverb

deal with; usually used with a form of negation;

Touchverb

cause to be in brief contact with;

Touchverb

to extend as far as;

Touchverb

be equal to in quality or ability;

Touchverb

tamper with;

Touchverb

make a more or less disguised reference to;

Touchverb

comprehend;

Touchverb

consume;

Touchverb

dye with a color

Touchverb

come into or be in contact with

Touchverb

bring one's hand or another part of one's body into contact with

Touchverb

come or bring into mutual contact

Touchverb

strike (a ball) lightly in a specified direction

Touchverb

be tangent to (a curve or surface) at a certain point.

Touchverb

handle in order to interfere with, alter, or otherwise affect

Touchverb

cause harm to (someone)

Touchverb

consume or use (food, drink, money, etc.)

Touchverb

used to indicate that something is avoided or rejected

Touchverb

affect or concern

Touchverb

(of a quality or expression) be or become visible or apparent in

Touchverb

produce feelings of affection, gratitude, or sympathy in

Touchverb

reach (a specified level or amount)

Touchverb

be comparable to in quality or excellence

Touchverb

ask someone for (money or some other commodity) as a loan or gift

Touchverb

lightly mark in features or other details with a brush or pencil.

Touchnoun

an act of touching someone or something

Touchnoun

the faculty of perception through physical contact, especially with the fingers

Touchnoun

a musician's manner of playing keys or strings.

Touchnoun

the manner in which a musical instrument's keys or strings respond to being played

Touchnoun

a light stroke with a pen, pencil, etc.

Touchnoun

a small amount; a trace

Touchnoun

a small distinctive detail or feature

Touchnoun

a distinctive manner or method of dealing with something

Touchnoun

an ability to deal with something successfully

Touchnoun

the area beyond the sidelines, out of play

Touchnoun

an act of asking for and getting a loan or gift from someone

Touchnoun

a series of changes shorter than a peal.

Touchnoun

a thing that tests the worth or character of something

Basenoun

Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

Basenoun

A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.

Basenoun

The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

Basenoun

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.

Basenoun

(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.

Basenoun

Important areas in games and sports.

Basenoun

A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.

Basenoun

(baseball) One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.

Basenoun

(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

Basenoun

A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

Basenoun

(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).

Basenoun

(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.

Basenoun

(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.

Basenoun

(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.

Basenoun

(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.

Basenoun

(mathematics) lang=en.

Basenoun

(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

Basenoun

(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

Basenoun

In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

Basenoun

(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

Basenoun

(music) lang=en

Basenoun

The smallest kind of cannon.

Basenoun

(archaic) The housing of a horse.

Basenoun

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.

Basenoun

(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

Basenoun

(obsolete) An apron.

Basenoun

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.

Basenoun

The game of prisoners' bars.

Baseverb

(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

Baseverb

(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).

Baseverb

To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

Baseadjective

(obsolete) Low in height; short.

Baseadjective

Low in place or position.

Baseadjective

(obsolete) Of low value or degree.

Baseadjective

(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.

Baseadjective

Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.

Baseadjective

Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.

Baseadjective

Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.

Baseadjective

Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.

Baseadjective

(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.

Baseadjective

Not classical or correct.

Baseadjective

obsolete form of bass

Baseadjective

(legal) Not held by honourable service.

Baseadjective

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

Baseadjective

Low in place or position.

Baseadjective

Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.

Baseadjective

Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

Baseadjective

Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.

Baseadjective

Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.

Baseadjective

Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.

Baseadjective

Not classical or correct.

Baseadjective

Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.

Baseadjective

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.

Basenoun

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.

Basenoun

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.

Baseverb

To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.

Baseverb

To reduce the value of; to debase.

Basenoun

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;

Baseverb

use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

Baseverb

assign to a station

Baseadjective

serving as or forming a base;

Baseadjective

(used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal;

Baseadjective

of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

Baseadjective

not adhering to ethical or moral principles;

Baseadjective

having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;

Baseadjective

illegitimate

Baseadjective

debased; not genuine;

Basenoun

the lowest part or edge of something, especially the part on which it rests or is supported

Basenoun

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.

Baseverb

use (something specified) as the foundation or starting point for something

Baseverb

situate at a specified place as the centre of operations

Baseadjective

without moral principles; ignoble

Baseadjective

denoting or befitting a person of low social class.

Baseadjective

(of coins or other articles) not made of precious metal