Base (a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height |
Base (a.) Low in place or position. |
Base (a.) Of humble birth |
Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth |
Base (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals. |
Base (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal |
Base (a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded |
Base (a.) Not classical or correct. |
Base (a.) Deep or grave in sound |
Base (a.) Not held by honorable service |
Base (n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support |
Base (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing |
Base (n.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented. |
Base (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument |
Base (n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support. |
Base (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt |
Base (n.) The chief ingredient in a compound. |
Base (n.) A substance used as a mordant. |
Base (n.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions. |
Base (n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand. |
Base (n.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed |
Base (n.) A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part |
Base (n.) 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. |
Base (n.) The smallest kind of cannon. |
Base (n.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ. |
Base (n.) The basal plane of a crystal. |
Base (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline. |
Base (n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon. |
Base (n.) The housing of a horse. |
Base (n.) 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. |
Base (n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat. |
Base (n.) An apron. |
Base (n.) The point or line from which a start is made |
Base (n.) 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. |
Base (n.) A rustic play |
Base (n.) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield. |
Base (n.) To put on a base or basis |
Base (a.) To abase |
Base (a.) To reduce the value of |
Base-burner (n.) A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed. |
Base-court (n.) The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house |
Base-court (n.) An inferior court of law, not of record. |
Base viol () See Bass viol. |
Conical (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone |
Conical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cone |
Country-base (n.) Same as Prison base. |
Cylindrical (a.) Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface |
Plano-conical (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other. |
Solid (a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies |
Solid (a.) Not hollow |
base on balls walk pass | (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls, he worked the pitcher for a base on balls |
base hit safety | (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely |
double two-base hit two-bagger two-baser | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base, he hit a double to deep centerfield |
triple three-base hit three-bagger | a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base |
first base | the initial stage in accomplishing something, we didn't get to first base with that approach |
prisoner's base | a children's game, two teams capture opposing players by tagging them and taking them to their own base |
first base first | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) |
second base second | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield |
third base third | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate), he is playing third |
air base air station | a base for military aircraft |
army base | a large base of operations for an army |
base pedestal stand | a support or foundation, the base of the lamp |
base bag | a place that the runner must touch before scoring, he scrambled to get back to the bag |
base | (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector |
base base of operations | installation from which a military force initiates operations, the attack wiped out our forward bases |
base | a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit, a tub should sit on its own base |
base | 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 |
bushing cylindrical lining | a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction |
car tire automobile tire auto tire rubber tire | a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel |
conic projection conical projection | a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles |
first base | the base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball |
flat flat tire | a deflated pneumatic tire |
foundation base fundament foot groundwork substructure understructure | lowest support of a structure, it was built on a base of solid rock, he stood at the foot of the tower |
headquarters central office main office home office home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
home plate home base home plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands, it must be touched by a base runner in order to score, he ruled that the runner failed to touch home |
infrastructure base | the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area, the industrial base of Japan |
latex paint latex rubber-base paint | a water-base paint that has a latex binder |
navy base | base of operations for a naval fleet |
pneumatic tire pneumatic tyre | a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air, used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc |
radial radial tire radial-ply tire | pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing |
rocket base | a military base for rocket missiles |
second base | the base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball |
sheet flat solid | a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width |
snow tire | an automobile pneumatic tire with deep tread to give traction in snow |
third base third | the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball, he was cut down on a close play at third |
tire tyre | hoop that covers a wheel, automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air |
tire chain snow chain | chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow |
tire iron tire tool | hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel |
tubeless tubeless tire | pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight |
wagon tire | a metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel |
water-base paint | paint in which water is used as the vehicle |
solid body substance | the solid parts of the body |
spare tire love handle | excess fat around the waistline |
basis base foundation fundament groundwork cornerstone | the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained, the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture |
knowledge domain knowledge base domain | the content of a particular field of knowledge |
solid geometry | the geometry of -dimensional space |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
subdata base | a subset of data in a database that are used in a specific application |
floor base | a lower limit, the government established a wage floor |