Meaning & Definition of Base in English

1. Installation from which a military force initiates operations

• "The attack wiped out our forward bases"

2. Lowest support of a structure

• "It was built on a base of solid rock"

• "He stood at the foot of the tower"

3. A place that the runner must touch before scoring

• "He scrambled to get back to the bag"

4. The bottom or lowest part

• "The base of the mountain"

5. (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment

• "The base of the skull"

6. A lower limit

• "The government established a wage floor"

7. The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

• "The whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"

8. A support or foundation

• "The base of the lamp"

9. A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside

• The basic structural unit of nucleic acids (dna or rna)

10. 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"

11. The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed

• "The base of the triangle"

12. The most important or necessary part of something

• "The basis of this drink is orange juice"

13. (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place

• "10 is the radix of the decimal system"

14. The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

15. 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

16. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• "Thematic vowels are part of the stem"

17. The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area

• "The industrial base of japan"

18. 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"

19. A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit

• "A tub should sit on its own base"

20. (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

1. Use as a basis for

• Found on

• "Base a claim on some observation"

2. Situate as a center of operations

• "We will base this project in the new lab"

3. Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

1. Serving as or forming a base

• "The painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"

2. Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

• "Baseborn wretches with dirty faces"

• "Of humble (or lowly) birth"

3. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal

• "Base coins of aluminum"

• "A base metal"

4. Not adhering to ethical or moral principles

• "Base and unpatriotic motives"

• "A base, degrading way of life"

• "Cheating is dishonorable"

• "They considered colonialism immoral"

• "Unethical practices in handling public funds"

5. Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

• "That liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- edmund burke

• "Taking a mean advantage"

• "Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- shakespeare

• "Something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

6. Illegitimate

7. Debased

• Not genuine

• "An attempt to eliminate the base coinage"