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. |
Bases
(pl. ) of Basis |
Country-base
(n.) Same as Prison base. |
Honeycomb
(n.) A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs. |
Honeycomb
(n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. |
Mount
(v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land |
Mount
(v.) A bulwark for offense or defense |
Mount
(v.) A bank |
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 |
climb
mount | the act of climbing something, it was a difficult climb to the top |
| 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 |
saddle horse
riding horse
mount | a lightweight horse kept for riding only |
air base
air station | a base for military aircraft |
| army base | a large base of operations for an army |
backing
mount | something forming a back that is added for strengthening |
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 |
| 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 |
| honeycomb | a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees |
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 |
| mount setting | a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place, the diamond was in a plain gold mount |
| navy base | base of operations for a naval fleet |
| rocket base | a military base for rocket missiles |
| second base | the base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball |
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 |
| water-base paint | paint in which water is used as the vehicle |
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 |
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 |
| Sermon on the Mount | the first major discourse delivered by Jesus (Matthew - and Luke :-) |
| honeycomb tripe | lining of the reticulum (or second stomach) of a ruminant used as food |
al-Qaeda
Qaeda
al-Qa'ida
al-Qaida
Base | 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 thancountries |
Carmelite order
Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel | a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the th century |
| base home | the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end |
| base | (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment, the base of the skull |
| Mount Ranier National Park | a national park in Washington having mountain terrain featuring glaciers and alpine lakes and streams and swamps |
Athos
Mount Athos | an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century |
Asama
Mount Asama | a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano, one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (, feet) |
Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo | a volcano on Luzon to the northwest of Manila, erupted in after years of dormancy |
South Dakota
Coyote State
Mount Rushmore State
SD | a state in north central United States |
| Mount Vernon | the former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac river |