Meaning of: Base

- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area

Example - " the industrial base of Japan"

- the principal ingredient of a mixture

Example - " glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"

- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

- the most important or necessary part of something

Example - " the basis of this drink is orange juice"

- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

Example - " the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"

- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed

Example - " the base of the triangle"

- the bottom or lowest part

Example - " the base of the mountain"

- lowest support of a structure

Example - " it was built on a base of solid rock"

- installation from which a military force initiates operations

Example - " the attack wiped out our forward bases"

- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water

Example - " bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"

- 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

- a support or foundation

Example - " the base of the lamp"

- a place that the runner must touch before scoring

Example - " he scrambled to get back to the bag"

- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)

- a lower limit

Example - " the government established a wage floor"

- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit

Example - " a tub should sit on its own base"

- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place

Example - " 10 is the radix of the decimal system"

- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

Example - " thematic vowels are part of the stem"

- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment

Example - " the base of the skull"

- use as a basis for; found on

Example - " base a claim on some observation"

- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

- situate as a center of operations

Example - " we will base this project in the new lab"

- serving as or forming a base

Example - " the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"

- of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

Example - " baseborn wretches with dirty faces"

- not adhering to ethical or moral principles

Example - " base and unpatriotic motives"

- illegitimate

- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

Example - " that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"

- debased; not genuine

Example - " an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal

Example - " base coins of aluminum"