Noun
- 1. base, base of operations, military installation
- usage: installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
- 2. foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure, support
- usage: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
- 3. base, bag, baseball equipment
- usage: a place that the runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
- 4. base, part, piece
- usage: the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain"
- 5. base, bottom
- usage: (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"
- 6. floor, base, control
- usage: a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor"
- 7. basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone, assumption, supposition, supposal
- usage: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
- 8. base, pedestal, stand, support
- usage: a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"
- 9. nucleotide, base, ester
- usage: a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- 10. base, alkali, compound, chemical compound
- usage: 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"
- 11. base, flank
- usage: the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle"
- 12. basis, base, part, portion, component part, component, constituent
- usage: the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice"
- 13. base, radix, number
- usage: (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
- 14. base, home, location
- usage: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- 15. al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base
- usage: 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 than 50 countries
- 16. root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical, form, word form, signifier, descriptor
- usage: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
- 17. infrastructure, base, store, stock, fund
- usage: the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan"
- 18. base, ingredient
- usage: 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"
- 19. base, bottom, underside, undersurface
- usage: a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base"
- 20. base, electrode
- usage: (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
Noun
- 1. base, base of operations, military installation
- usage: a relation that provides the foundation for something; "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis"
- 2. foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure, support
- usage: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
- 3. base, bag, baseball equipment
- usage: the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice"
Verb
- 1. establish, base, ground, found
- usage: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"
- 2. base, situate, locate
- usage: situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab"
- 3. free-base, base, drug, do drugs
- usage: use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
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