Word: base Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass. Pronunciation: /beɪs/, /bæɪs/, /beːs/ 1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Something from which other things extend; a foundation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house. 3. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A basic but essential component or ingredient. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Important areas in games and sports. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Important areas in games and sports. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support. Labels: countable, uncountable 15. The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT). Labels: countable, uncountable 16. The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat. Labels: countable, uncountable 17. The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold. 18. A number raised to the power of an exponent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3. 19. Synonym of radix. Labels: countable, uncountable 20. The set of sets from which a topology is generated. Labels: countable, uncountable 21. A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles. Labels: countable, uncountable 22. A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element. Labels: countable, uncountable 23. In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground. Labels: countable, uncountable 24. A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached. Labels: countable, uncountable 25. Dated form of bass. Labels: alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable Example: The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. 26. The smallest kind of cannon. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 27. The housing of a horse. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 28. A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. Labels: countable, historical, in-plural, sometimes, uncountable Example: […] with flowers of gold, the body lined with velvet, and the bases, or skirts, with satin; also a frock of black satin, lined with sarcenet, having three welts of the same. 29. A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt. Labels: countable, historical, in-plural, sometimes, uncountable Example: The base (skirt), as opposed to the practical skirt of the tonlet armour, is an affectation in imitation of the civilian fabric garment of the period and may well have been inspired by a similar feature on Maximilian's gift armour. Example: Both knee-length bases are made from black velvet [...] There was a second type of metal skirt that could be worn with armour: the tonlet. [...] Unlike the base, however, the tonlet did not have a textile counterpart. [...] 30. The lower part of a robe or petticoat. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 31. An apron. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: bakers in their linen bases 32. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets. 33. A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office. Labels: countable, uncountable 34. The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life. Labels: Marxism, countable, uncountable 35. A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder. Labels: countable, uncountable 36. Ellipsis of base leg. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 37. freebase cocaine Labels: slang, uncountable Example: TYLER LENNON (played by Louis Healy): Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high. Example: Shared you with my friends, the Pops they never had / You lived for our fishing trips, damn I had a dad / [...] / See, mine made sure he had every base covered / So imagine his pain finding base in the cupboard