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Meaning base meaning

What does base mean?
Definitions in simple English

base Noun

— Something's base is its lower part; the solid part that touches the floor or touches the earth and keeps the other parts of the thing up. — Something's base is its most important part. — A base is a building for military personnel and material.

base Adjective

— Rude, unfair, or unkind. The people who make those sex videos are really base.

base Verb

— When something or someone is based in a place, they do most of their work in that place. The airline is based in Toronto, but flies all over the world. — If you base x on y, you build or make x on, using, or to be like y. The movie is based on the book.

base

— verb (= found) use as a basis for; found on base a claim on some observation — adjective serving as or forming a base the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats — noun installation from which a military force initiates operations the attack wiped out our forward bases — noun (= bag) a place that the runner must touch before scoring he scrambled to get back to the bag — noun (= foot) lowest support of a structure it was built on a base of solid rock he stood at the foot of the tower — noun a support or foundation the base of the lamp — noun the bottom or lowest part the base of the mountain — noun (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment the base of the skull — noun (= basis) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture — noun (= floor) a lower limit the government established a wage floor — adjective (= baseborn, humble, lowly) of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense) baseborn wretches with dirty faces of humble (or lowly) birth — adjective (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal base coins of aluminum a base metal — adjective (= mean, meanspirited) 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 — adjective illegitimate — adjective debased; not genuine an attempt to eliminate the base coinage — verb situate as a center of operations we will base this project in the new lab — adjective (= immoral) 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 — noun (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector — noun a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit a tub should sit on its own base — noun 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 — noun the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end — noun 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 — noun the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed the base of the triangle — noun (= radix) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place 10 is the radix of the decimal system — noun (= basis) the most important or necessary part of something the basis of this drink is orange juice — noun (= nucleotide) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) — noun the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area the industrial base of Japan — verb (= free-base) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes — noun (= stem) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed thematic vowels are part of the stem

Base

— noun (= al-Qaeda) 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

Synonyms base synonyms

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base English » English

foundation mean basis bottom vile low foot ground root pedestal groundwork despicable bad origin wicked vulgar stand found ignoble radix humble evil contemptible source immoral bed baseborn alkali support inferior footing basement substructure stronghold position fundament establish stem trunk tree trunk station nasty lowly free-base buttocks vicious understructure sordid sole rear

Base English » English

al-Qa’ida al-Qaida al-Qaeda Qaeda

Topics base topics

What do people use base to talk about?
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Bad, immoral
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Fort
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with chemicals
States Quality Good

Bad
States Parts of things Top

Bottom
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building
Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations

Basis

Conjugation base conjugation

How do you conjugate base?

base · verb

Examples base examples

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Simple sentences

What do you base this assumption on?
What do you base your theory on?
There is a military base near here.
You must not base your estimation of a person on rumor alone.
You will be paid a stable base salary plus commissions on sale.
He didn't come back to the base yesterday.
Base jumping is an extreme sport.
How many of you are there at the base?
This city lies at the base of a mountain.
This base is now under our control.
There is a secret base on the other side of the moon.
Let H be the base of the perpendicular drawn from point A to the line BC.
Flamengo has the biggest fan base in Brazil.
Our company's base is in Tokyo.
The area of a triangle is half of the area of the rectangle with equivalent base and height.
There's a secret base on the moon.
The soldiers were sent back to their base.
You're not going to get to first base if you do it that way.
The moon looks so perfectly round. It's actually the base of a cone, you know.

Movie subtitles

This base.
We'll take care of it, once we reach the base.
Emergency call to the base in Noah.
Repeat: an emergency call to the base in Noah.
Base Noe, confirm.
Base Noe, please confirm evacuation.
Base Noah?
I have to call the military base.
It's our. forward operating base in Afghanistan.
All due respect, Commandant, this base is in L.A. County, so when somebody's killed in L.A., it is very much in our jurisdiction.
We need base access, we need to interview his shipmates, but the Coast Guard keeps shutting us down at every turn.
I thought you drank at Home Base.
Ah, it's cool. Truth is, you weren't totally off base about me feeling competitive with him.
We return to base, from now you're alone.
He seeks to turn base metal into gold!
That makes three Zowies, and a man gets a base on balls.
And across the base of the peninsula, cutting it off from the rest of the island, is a wall.
I'll have to see on what you base your claim.
The base of the Escarpment's clearer.
The safety of the northwest hinges on Lohara the base for the three advance garrisons, of which Chukoti is the most important.
Using Carfax Abbey as his base, he descended upon London for fresh victims.
We can't go out dressed like this, we wouldn't get to first base.
This is the path that leads to the base of the cliff.
That preacher won't get to first base.
You see, the thumbs. it's very necessary that the base of the thumbs are close together like that.
He won't get to first base.
And let Philip of Spain use it as a base?
It's this forever going on after a retreating enemy over these fever bogs, getting further and further from our base.
Whatever it is, I know you've done nothing base or mean.
Found out at the base.
Gave him a sharp peck at the base of the skull.
This picture was shot at the Marine Corps base in San Diego, California.
Sorry. We're not allowed off the base for seven weeks.
Dad, listen, beat it back to the base and get those papers from General Gordon.
Base tike, call'st thou me host?
Base is the slave that pays.
Or art thou base, common and popular?

News and current affairs

After all, medieval alchemists engaged in what we now consider an absurd search for ways to transform base metals into gold.
It is far from clear if he would have prevailed, given his lack of an independent political base, but his international prestige and standing might have given him a chance if he would have chosen to throw the gauntlet.
Not all ideological hawks are religious, although those who are base their claim on divine promises and prophecies.
What risks do you see emerging should Russia's economy continue to decline, with Putin increasingly unable to reward his political base?
Indeed, the credit channel is frozen and velocity has collapsed, with banks hoarding increases in base money in the form of excess reserves.
A large chunk of the Republican base, including many of the party's largest donors, believes that any Democratic president is an illegitimate enemy of America, so that whatever such an incumbent proposes must be wrong and thus should be thwarted.
So maintaining that government in office has now become a strategic priority for Iran, particularly as it is now clear that any US hopes of using Iraq as a permanent military base are dead.
There are also hints that a reshuffling of important positions within the Party will take place, allowing the presumed heir to form a new power base.
Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen.
Argentina has much going for it: widespread literacy, a healthy population, a highly productive agricultural economy, and a strong natural resource base.
Perhaps the most shattering lost illusion is the fact that the bombings occurred in the heart of the al-Saud's home-base in the Najdi region, which indicates that the enemy within resides nearer to the throne than anyone suspected.
By contrast, the regime itself will be imperiled if it clings to its narrow base.
Building on that base, Indian information industries are able to play a major global role.
China views Russia as its strategic rear - and perhaps a base - in its escalating rivalry with the US (though not yet as an ally).
Superconductors are being used for levitated trains in high-speed rail transport, and as microwave filters for improved signal bandwidth in cellular base stations.
The potential recession risk of a budget deal can be avoided by phasing in the base-broadening that is used to raise revenue.
A desirable way to broaden the tax base would be to put an overall cap on the amount of tax reduction that each taxpayer can achieve through deductions and exclusions.
Though not one to deny the existence of such base motives, I would insist that the crisis has its roots in key policy decisions stretching back over decades.
Al Qaeda lost its base in Afghanistan when the Taliban government that had provided it sanctuary was ousted from power.
Developing the service sector could also diversify the production base, thereby enhancing economic resilience and boosting growth momentum.
Instead, they drove me to Bagram Air Base and handed me over to the Americans stationed there.
The US went into Afghanistan in October 2001 to oust the Taliban regime, which had provided Bin Laden and Al Qaeda with a sanctuary and operational base.

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