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base
  1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
    1. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
  2. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
  3. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
  4. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
  5. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
  6. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
  7. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
  8. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
  9. Important areas in games and sports.
    1. A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
    2. (baseball) One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.
  10. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
  11. (biology) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
  12. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
  13. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
  14. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
  15. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
  16. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
  17. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
  18. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
  19. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
  20. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
  21. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
  22. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
  23. (music) Dated form of bass.
  24. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
  25. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
  26. (plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
  27. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
  28. (obsolete) An apron.
  29. 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.
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  31. Examples:
    1. “The most rudimentary method of modeling the soil is to use only springs, located at the base of the structure.”
      “Plunge the base of the pan into a bowl of very cold water.”
      “The law professor expressed that the decision was a good base for political reform discussions.”
basis
  1. A physical base or foundation.
  2. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
  3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
  4. A regular frequency.
  5. (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
  6. (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
  7. (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “On what basis are you suggesting that this ancient structure was because of aliens?”
      “Regardless of its origin, sometimes a good idea forms the entire basis of a non-fiction book.”
      “His four postulates which formed the basis of his theory, however, attracted much criticism.”
basic
basicity
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being basic
  2. (chemistry) The degree to which a substance is basic
  3. (chemistry) The number of replaceable hydrogen atoms in a molecule of an acid
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Morpholine is a colorless oily liquid with strong moisture absorption and strong basicity.”
      “Urea and substituted ureas exhibit a weak basicity and may bind a superacid in the form of a quarternary ammonium salt.”
      “Classical means of separation were based on the small differences in basicity and solubility.”
baseness
  1. The quality or condition of being base.
  2. The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Ensor employed notions of carnival and the mask motif to represent the rich baseness and corruption of modern man.”
      “Her hero's commitment to a vision of honorable politics is clearly out of place in a context of political corruption, baseness, and compromise.”
      “The baseness of arguments that are presented to us in the film clubs and elsewhere do not give us the opportunity to reply seriously.”
basal
  1. base, bottom, minimum
  2. (anatomy) Any basal structure or part
baseword
  1. (linguistics) A word used as a base, to whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
basification
  1. (chemistry) The act or process of making something more basic; raising the pH of something.
basifier
  1. (chemistry) That which converts into a salifiable base.
base
  1. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars. [from 15th c.]
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The most rudimentary method of modeling the soil is to use only springs, located at the base of the structure.”
      “Plunge the base of the pan into a bowl of very cold water.”
      “The law professor expressed that the decision was a good base for political reform discussions.”
baselessness
  1. The state or quality of being baseless.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By the end of 1926 I had been convinced as to the baselessness of the theory of existence of an almighty supreme being who created, guided and controlled the universe.”
      “In the last act, when Tristan falsely imagines Isolde coming to him, his delusion is expressed by the violins' effervescence and its baselessness by the inactivity of the double basses, declining to participate.”
      “The very baselessness of childhood fears offers parents an opportunity to teach their children a lesson that will last all their lives: that most fears exist only in the imagination.”
basicness
  1. Quality or degree of being basic.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When Angelina and Brad collided, Brad was still married to Jennifer Aniston, with whom he shared a similar kind of California basicness.”
      “It's difficult just for the basicness of memorising the dialogue and having to constantly emotionally pivot.”
      “As pets, bunnies evince zero edge and exude a whiff of basicness.”
basifications
  1. plural of basification
basewords
  1. plural of baseword
basifiers
  1. plural of basifier
basenesses
basicities
bases
basals
  1. plural of basal
baseis
basics
  1. plural of basic
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Having learned the basics of dinghy sailing, the next stage is to join a sailing club.”
      “With these basics out of the way, we can start to build a game plan and talk about strategy.”
      “It took ten times the amount of energy and quite a bit of time to learn even the basics.”
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