Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BASE

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Definitions of BASE

1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
2. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
3. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
4. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
5. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
6. Important areas in games and sports.
7. 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.
8. A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
9. Low in place or position.
10. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
11. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
12. Not classical or correct.
13. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
14. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
15. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
16. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
17. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
18. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
19. (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
20. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
21. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
22. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
23. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
24. (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
25. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
26. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
27. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
28. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
29. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
30. (obsolete) An apron.
31. (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
32. (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
33. (aviation) Short for base leg.
34. (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
35. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
36. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
37. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
38. (slang) To freebase.
39. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
40. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
41. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
42. (now, rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
43. (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
44. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
45. Obsolete form of bass.
46. (now, chiefly, US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars. [from 15th c.]
47. Alternative form of BASE.
48. Acronym of building, antenna-tower, span, earth.
49. (music) Dated form of bass.
50. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
51. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
52. (historical, sometimes, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
53. (historical, sometimes, in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
54. (legal) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
55. A surname from nicknames.

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Examples of Using BASE in a Sentence

• Each rod typically represents one digit of a multi-digit number laid out using a positional numeral system such as base ten (though some cultures used different numerical bases).
• The term often also implies a positional notation using the numerals, as well as the use of a decimal base, in particular when contrasted with other systems such as Roman numerals.
• Alleles can differ at a single position through single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), but they can also have insertions and deletions of up to several thousand base pairs.
• The intense secrecy surrounding the base has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component of unidentified flying object (UFO) folklore.
• These units originated in Babylonian astronomy as sexagesimal (base 60) subdivisions of the degree; they are used in fields that involve very small angles, such as astronomy, optometry, ophthalmology, optics, navigation, land surveying, and marksmanship.
• Amphetamine properly refers to a specific chemical, the racemic free base, which is equal parts of the two enantiomers in their pure amine forms.
• This broad use of the term is likely to have come about because alkalis were the first bases known to obey the Arrhenius definition of a base, and they are still among the most common bases.
• Their importance becomes apparent in analyzing acid–base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.
• occurs in baseball when a batter receives four pitches during a plate appearance that the umpire calls balls, and is in turn awarded first base without the possibility of being called out.
• Reaching base by other means (such as a base on balls) or advancing further after the hit (such as when a subsequent batter gets a hit) does not increase the player's total bases.
• A hit batsman is awarded first base, provided that (in the plate umpire's judgment) he made an honest effort to avoid the pitch, although failure to do so is rarely called by an umpire.
• In baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches or passes first base after hitting the ball into fair territory with neither the benefit of an error nor a fielder's choice.
• Generally defined as "how frequently a batter reaches base per plate appearance", OBP does not credit the batter for reaching base on fielding errors, fielder's choice, uncaught third strikes, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference.
• The ability of a player both to get on base and to hit for power, two important offensive skills, are represented.
• In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base unaided by other actions and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner.
• The polygonal base of each pyramid must therefore be the same, and unless otherwise specified the base vertices are usually coplanar and a bipyramid is usually symmetric, meaning the two pyramids are mirror images across their common base plane.
• A base pair (bp) is a fundamental unit of double-stranded nucleic acids consisting of two nucleobases bound to each other by hydrogen bonds.
• If X is the base field F, then the map is called a bilinear form, which are well-studied (for example: scalar product, inner product, and quadratic form).
• Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716.
• In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the monetary base.

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