Base Meaning and Definition

Word: Base

How to pronounce: beɪs

Noun

Definitions:

1. The lowest part or edge of something, especially the part on which it rests or is supported.

Example sentences: "She sat down at the base of a tree"

2. A conceptual structure or entity on which something draws or depends.

Example sentences: "The town's economic base collapsed"

3. A place used as a center of operations by the armed forces or others; a headquarters.

Example sentences: "The corporal headed back to base"

4. A main or important element or ingredient to which other things are added.

Example sentences: "Soaps with a vegetable oil base"

5. A substance capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt and water, or (more broadly) of accepting or neutralizing hydrogen ions.

Example sentences: "Nitric acid reacted with a base will give the nitrate of the salt and water."

6. The middle part of a bipolar transistor, separating the emitter from the collector.

Example sentences: "Transistors are composed of three parts - a base, a collector, and an emitter."

7. The root or stem of a word or a derivative.

Example sentences: "The children had to say the base of a suffixed word pronounced by the experimenter."

8. A number used as the basis of a numeration scale.

Example sentences: "Some historians believe that the Babylonian base 60 place-value system was transmitted to the Indians via the Greeks."

9. One of the four stations that must be reached in turn to score a run.

Example sentences: "Four different times I switched over to see the bases loaded, scoring I believe a total of one run."

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Have as the foundation for (something); use as a point from which (something) can develop.

Example sentences: "The film is based on a novel by Pat Conroy"

2. Situate as the center of operations.

Example sentences: "A London-based band"

Adjective

Definitions:

1. (of a person or a person's actions or feelings) without moral principles; ignoble.

Example sentences: "The electorate's baser instincts of greed and selfishness"

2. Denoting or befitting a person of low social class.

Example sentences: "The thought of such a man with a background of base peasants to be Kikyo's teacher was almost ludicrous."

3. (of coins or other articles) not made of precious metal.

Example sentences: "The basest coins in the purse were made in the seventh century AD"

Synonyms:

foundation

fundament

groundwork

backbone

radix

substructure

ground

infrastructure

axis

seat

understructure

plinth

socle

pedestal

basement

bases

substrate

base of operations

establish

core

nucleus

bottom

foot

ignoble

despicable

dishonorable

vile

basal

sordid

alkali

low

headquarters

heart

focus

center

home

root

stem

snide

Antonyms:

come

arrive

Derivations:

basing

basal

basic

baseboard

baseline

baseball

based

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Base in Other Languages...

Spanish: Basar

German: Basis

French: Base

Italian: Base

Turkish: Altlık