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. |
Bude light
() A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil. |
Country-base
(n.) Same as Prison base. |
Drummond light
() A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime |
Light
(n.) That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. |
Light
(n.) That which furnishes, or is a source of, light, as the sun, a star, a candle, a lighthouse, etc. |
Light
(n.) The time during which the light of the sun is visible |
Light
(n.) The brightness of the eye or eyes. |
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 |
| light adaptation | the process of adjusting the eyes to relatively high levels of illumination, the pupil constricts and the cones system is operative |
| 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 |
| light show | a display of colored lights moving in shifting patterns |
| 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 |
light reflex
pupillary reflex
miosis
myosis | reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller |
air base
air station | a base for military aircraft |
anchor light
riding light
riding lamp | a light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor |
arc lamp
arc light | a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes |
| army base | a large base of operations for an army |
| ballast light ballast | an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps |
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 |
beacon lighthouse
beacon light
pharos | a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships |
candle
taper
wax light | stick of wax with a wick in the middle |
| fairy light | a small colored light used for decoration (especially at Christmas) |
| first base | the base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball |
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 |
| klieg light | carbon arc lamp that emits an intense light used in producing films |
latex paint
latex
rubber-base paint | a water-base paint that has a latex binder |
light
light source | any device serving as a source of illumination, he stopped the car and turned off the lights |
| light arm | a rifle or pistol |
light bulb
lightbulb
bulb
incandescent lamp
electric light
electric-light bulb | electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity |
light circuit
lighting circuit | wiring that provides power to electric lights |
light-emitting diode
LED | diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current, color depends on the material used |
lighter
light igniter
ignitor | a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires, do you have a light? |
light filter
diffusing screen | a transparent filter that reduces the light (or some wavelengths of the light) passing through it |
| light machine gun | a submachine gun not greater than . millimeter |
light meter
exposure meter
photometer | photographic equipment that measures the intensity of light |
| light microscope | microscope consisting of an optical instrument that magnifies the image of an object |
light pen
electronic stylus | (computer science) a pointer that when pointed at a computer display senses whether or not the spot is illuminated |
limelight
calcium light | a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light, formerly used for stage lighting |
| navigation light | light on an airplane that indicates the plane's position and orientation, red light on the left (port) wing tip and green light on the right (starboard) wing tip |
| navy base | base of operations for a naval fleet |
| night-light | light (as a candle or small bulb) that burns in a bedroom at night (as for children or invalids) |
organic light-emitting diode
OLED | a self-luminous diode (it glows when an electrical field is applied to the electrodes) that does not require backlighting or diffusers |
| panel light | a light to illuminate an instrument panel |