Word: Based
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 centre of operations by the armed forces or others; a headquarters.
Example sentences: "He 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. Each 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."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Use (something specified) as the foundation or starting point for something.
Example sentences: "The film is based on a novel by Pat Conroy"
2. Situate at a specified place as the centre of operations.
Example sentences: "The Science Policy Review Unit is based at the University of Sussex"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. 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 620s AD"
Antonyms:
come
arrive
Derivations:
basing
base
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Based in Other Languages...
Spanish: Basar
German: Basieren
French: Baser
Italian: Basato
Turkish: Dayalı
