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. |
Bottom (n.) The lowest part of anything |
Bottom (n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold |
Bottom (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense |
Bottom (n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. |
Bottom (n.) The fundament |
Bottom (n.) An abyss. |
Bottom (n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river |
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 |
bottom-feeder bottom-dweller | a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water |
bottom-feeder | a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain |
bottom lurkers | a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water |
crane | large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world |
whooping crane whooper Grus americana | rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
crane fly daddy longlegs | long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite |
groundfish bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
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 |
bell tower | a tower that supports or shelters a bell |
bottom freighter merchantman merchant ship | a cargo ship, they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms |
church tower | the tower of a church |
clock tower | a tower with a large clock visible high up on an outside face |
CN Tower | a tower in Toronto, feet tall for broadcasting widely |
conning tower | a raised bridge on a submarine, often used for entering and exiting |
conning tower | an armored pilothouse on a warship |
control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
cooling tower | a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant |
crane | lifts and moves heavy objects, lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis |
Eiffel Tower | a wrought iron tower meters high that was constructed in Paris in , for many years it was the tallest man-made structure |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
fire tower | a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires |
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 |
highise tower block | tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments, `tower block' is the British term for `highise' |
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 |
Leaning Tower Leaning Tower of Pisa | a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular, construction was begun in |
lookout observation tower lookout station observatory | a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings |
martello tower | a circular masonry fort for coastal defence |
mooring tower mooring mast | a tower for mooring airships |
navy base | base of operations for a naval fleet |