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. |
Country-base
(n.) Same as Prison base. |
Sub-base
(n.) The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like. |
Zinc
(n.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9. |
Zinc
(v. t.) To coat with zinc |
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 |
| 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 |
latex paint
latex
rubber-base paint | a water-base paint that has a latex binder |
| 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 |
| zinc ointment | an ointment containing zinc that is used to treat certain skin diseases |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| base | the bottom or lowest part, the base of the mountain |
base runner
runner | a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) |
| tax base | collective value of taxable assets |
| base rate | the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks |
acid-base equilibrium
acid-base balance | (physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body, with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is slightly alkaline |
base
radix | (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place, is the radix of the decimal system |
| basis base | the most important or necessary part of something, the basis of this drink is orange juice |
| base | the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed, the base of the triangle |
| zinc deficiency | a deficiency caused by inadequate zinc in the diet or by liver disease or cystic fibrosis or other diseases |
| acid-base indicator | an indicator that changes color on going from acidic to basic solutions |
base
alkali | any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water, bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia |
| base metal | a metal that is common and not considered precious, lead, iron, copper, tin, and zinc are base metals |
| base pair | one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands, the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA |