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noun

plural of basis.

Example Sentences

The report, which draws on data from several government studies, bases its conclusions on the experiences of recent veterans.

Let's talk about the number of foreign military bases and what they cost.

The mostly white bases to the outer tail feathers form distinctive white tail patches visible from underneath or when in flight.

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The report, which draws on data from several government studies, bases its conclusions on the experiences of recent veterans.

Let's talk about the number of foreign military bases and what they cost.

The mostly white bases to the outer tail feathers form distinctive white tail patches visible from underneath or when in flight.

It is prevalent around college campuses and military bases.

All the landers were left behind, the bases remaining where they touched down.

Bulbous structures at stem bases more add to my plant list enlarge.

The missiles were often displayed in public squares for a while before heading out to the bases.

In fact, he bases a lot of his research on when people do and do not use their mobile devices.

Even though it is twisted up into the famous double helix, all that matters is the order of the bases that form it.

Electrodes at the bases of the fibers collected the charge.

These are then captured to drive a steam generator hooked into the bases centralized heating and cooling systems.

He bases his stories around actual subjects with the writer's license to fill the fictional plots.

Then, in beds at the bases of the walls, she arranged plants chosen for their color and form.

Hauling fuel to remote bases not only puts troops in jeopardy, by sending them on convoy runs through bomb-laden roads.

Community colleges close to growing bases need to create and expand technical programs that meet specific job needs.

Secondly the navies should actively pursue the pirates to their bases of operation and take them out.

Pounding waves slowly chip away the bases of cliffs, forcing chunks of rock to crumble and slide into the sea.

Genomic data are simply the sequence of four different bases.

It think there is room for admiration on this bases alone.

Large bluish green leaves with bases that clasp the stems.

The exonuclease controls the reaction, feeding bases through one at a time, and ensures the bases go through at a manageble speed.

Military bases all over the world, warships on every ocean, have not given us security.

Scientists believe mammary glands began as sweat glands at the bases of hairs.

Gamble bases her advice on research she and her colleagues conducted to learn why children lie.

Place the picks through the base of each pad, then overlap the pad bases slightly as you go.

More and more community colleges' libraries are accessing data bases instead of subscribing to journals.

The parent trees send out new sprouts from their bases and fallen limbs, which grow as exact copies of their parents.

The inner ring of gas is dispersed around the edges of the bases.

If plants get floppy, mound soil slightly around their bases.

Nursing students account for one of my company's biggest customer bases.

Initially, several of the bonobos in the group would take up positions at tree bases and steadily gaze upward.

His plant choices really cover the bases for winter gardening.

Writings on an emerging cross-disciplinary field that examines such issues as the social bases and impact of taxation.

In certain birds, the same structures hold the bases of large wing feathers.

My team had the responsibility of taking over the old lead bases of all the employees who did not come.

The brush fueled fires that imperiled the sequoias-which resist flames at their bases but can die if fire attacks their crowns.

For the military, that means taking land prices into account in choosing sites for bases.

Compare photographs of moon-landing bases taken before and after the astronauts landed.

Trunks are patterned with bases of old leaf stalks.

It seems pretty clear that this could be studied on a population bases.

And thereafter he got his hands on funding for everything from highways to military bases.

The recycling industry bases its supply on communities and businesses that collect recyclable.

But on the giant concrete barriers that still ring the constellations of bases around the country,.

As you wrap up an informational interview, there are two essential bases you want to cover.

Plans to harmonise tax bases could too easily evolve into minimum tax rates.

Burly guys become bases for multi-girl stacks, and flyweight acrobats flash smiles-even when hanging by their hair.

Bio-fuels can also be derived from food waste produced on large military bases as well.

Army has scores of bases scattered all across the world.

So, to cover all the bases they said they had to interview you.

They will return to civilian life, making them less easy to monitor than active-duty troops returning to bases.

Canada, turbine bases showed any physical evidence of being hit by a blade.

ID looks at the evidence with an open mind and bases conclusions only on evidence.

He forced cuts in bases and procurement on the outraged joint chiefs, only to find some money mysteriously restored again.

Lowell bases his conclusions of the habitability of the planet.

In one swing, he gets to round all of the bases and score.

Using it, the force is recruiting at military bases and college campuses all over the country.

Certainly it will not be a trivial thing, and might bring install bases back into parity.

He thinks it might be time to evaluate these modern intellectuals on the same bases that they enjoyed evaluating their forebears.

Their successors lack experience or independent power bases.

Some of the bases for these difficulties have scientific merit, some do not.

Oxalic acid is stable although it is incompatible with bases acid chlorides, steel, silver and moisture.

The triangle and square bases can be connected with any of five different edge connectors.

My wife bases her decisions on the science in which she has been trained for many.

She was already a known artist and she spent her time in service traveling to different military bases and singing for soldiers.

And you hear that in the military every once in awhile, if you're near military bases.

Tripods made of lightweight carbon fiber with spreaderless bases are easy to carry in the backcountry.

Compare photographs of moon-landing bases taken before and after the astronauts landed on the moon.

Luego, montaron las bases de suministros a lo largo de sus rutas.

He has meticulously measured hundreds, from their mighty bases right up to the individual needles at the top.

Now there are a number of abandoned air bases on the border.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

plural of base¹.

noun

the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.

a fundamental principle or groundwork; foundation; basis: the base of needed reforms.

the bottom layer or coating, as of makeup or paint.

Architecture.

the distinctively treated portion of a column or pier below the shaft or shafts.

the distinctively treated lowermost portion of any construction, as a monument, exterior wall, etc.

Botany, Zoology.

the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment.

the point of attachment.

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the principal element or ingredient of anything, considered as its fundamental part: face cream with a lanolin base; paint with a lead base.

that from which a commencement, as of action or reckoning, is made; a starting point or point of departure.

Baseball.

any of the four corners of the diamond, especially first, second, or third base. Compare home plate.

a square canvas sack containing sawdust or some other light material, for marking first, second, or third base.

a starting line or point for runners, racing cars, etc.

10.

(in hockey and other games) the goal.

11.

Military.

a fortified or more or less protected area or place from which the operations of an army or an air force proceed.

a supply installation for a large military force.

12.

Geometry. the line or surface forming the part of a figure that is most nearly horizontal or on which it is supposed to stand.

13.

Mathematics.

the number that serves as a starting point for a logarithmic or other numerical system.

a collection of subsets of a topological space having the property that every open set in the given topology can be written as the union of sets of the collection.

a collection of neighborhoods of a point such that every neighborhood of the point contains one from the collection.

a collection of sets of a given filter such that every set in the filter is contained in some set in the collection.

14.

Also called base line. Surveying. See under triangulation (def. 1).

15.

Painting.

vehicle (def. 10).

Also called carrier. inert matter, used in the preparation of lakes, onto which a coloring compound is precipitated.

16.

Photography. a thin, flexible layer of cellulose triacetate or similar material that holds the light-sensitive film emulsion and other coatings, especially on motion-picture film.

17.

Chemistry.

a compound that reacts with an acid to form a salt, as ammonia, calcium hydroxide, or certain nitrogen-containing organic compounds.

the hydroxide of a metal or of an electropositive element or group.

a group or molecule that takes up or accepts protons.

a molecule or ion containing an atom with a free pair of electrons that can be donated to an acid; an electron-pair donor.

any of the purine and pyrimidine compounds found in nucleic acids: the purines adenine and guanine and the pyrimidines cytosine, thymine, and uracil.

18.

Grammar. the part of a complex word, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which derivational or inflectional affixes may be added, as want in unwanted or biolog- in biological. Compare root¹ (def. 11), stem¹ (def. 16).

19.

Linguistics. the component of a generative grammar containing the lexicon and phrase-structure rules that generate the deep structure of sentences.

20.

Electronics.

an electrode or terminal on a transistor other than the emitter or collector electrodes or terminals.

the part of an incandescent lamp or electron tube that includes the terminals for making electrical connection to a circuit or power supply.

21.

Stock Exchange. the level at which a security ceases a decline in price.

22.

Heraldry. the lower part of an escutcheon.

23.

bases, Armor. a tonlet formed of two shaped steel plates assembled side by side.

24.

Jewelry. pavilion (def. 6).

25.

in base, Heraldry. in the lower part of an escutcheon.

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adjective

26.

serving as or forming a base: The walls will need a base coat and two finishing coats.

verb (used with object)

27.

to make or form a base or foundation for.

28.

to establish, as a fact or conclusion (usually followed by on or upon): He based his assumption of her guilt on the fact that she had no alibi.

29.

to place or establish on a base or basis; ground; found (usually followed by on or upon): Our plan is based on a rising economy.

30.

to station, place, or situate (usually followed by at or on): He is based at Fort Benning. The squadron is based on a carrier.

verb (used without object)

31.

to have a basis; be based (usually followed by on or upon): Fluctuating prices usually base on a fickle public's demand.

32.

to have or maintain a base: I believe they had based on Greenland at one time.

Idioms

33.

get to first base. first base (def. 2).

34.

off base,

Baseball. not touching a base: The pitcher caught him off base and, after a quick throw, he was put out by the second baseman.

Informal. badly mistaken: The police were way off base when they tried to accuse her of the theft.

35.

on base, Baseball. having reached a base or bases: Two men are on base.

36.

touch base with, to make contact with: They've touched base with every political group on campus.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English (noun) < Middle French < Latin basis basis; compare prisoner's base

Related forms

un·based, adjective

well-based, adjective

Synonyms
1. Base, basis, foundation refer to anything upon which a structure is built and upon which it rests. Base usually refers to a literal supporting structure: the base of a statue. Basis more often refers to a figurative support: the basis of a report. Foundation implies a solid, secure understructure: the foundation of a skyscraper or a rumor.

noun, plural -ses

[-seez] .

the bottom or base of anything; the part on which something stands or rests.

anything upon which something is based; fundamental principle; groundwork.

the principal constituent; fundamental ingredient.

a basic fact, amount, standard, etc., used in making computations, reaching conclusions, or the like: The nurse is paid on an hourly basis. He was chosen on the basis of his college grades.

Mathematics. a set of linearly independent elements of a given vector space having the property that every element of the space can be written as a linear combination of the elements of the set.

Origin:
1525–35; < Latin < Greek básis step, place one stands on, pedestal, equivalent to ba-, base of baínein to walk, step (akin to come) + -sis -sis; compare base¹

Synonyms
1, 2. See base¹.

adjective

morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly.

of little or no value; worthless: hastily composed of base materials.

debased or counterfeit: an attempt to eliminate the base coinage.

characteristic of or befitting an inferior person or thing.

of illegitimate birth.

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not classical or refined: base language.

Old English Law. held by tenure less than freehold in return for a service viewed as somewhat demeaning to the tenant.

Archaic.

of humble origin or station.

of small height.

low in place, position, or degree: base servitude.

Obsolete. deep or grave in sound; bass: the base tones of a piano.

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noun

10.

Music Obsolete. bass¹ (defs. 3, 4).

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English bas < Old French < Late Latin bassus low, short, perhaps of Oscan orig.

Related forms

base·ly, adverb

base·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. despicable, contemptible. See mean². 2. poor, inferior, cheap, tawdry. 3. fake, spurious. 4. servile, ignoble, abject, slavish, menial.

noun Surveying, Navigation.

a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.

the triangles thus formed and measured.

Origin:
1810–20; < Medieval Latin triangulātiōn- (stem of triangulātiō) the making of triangles. See triangulate, -ion

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World English Dictionary

bases¹ (ˈbeɪsiːz)

—n
	the plural of basis

bases² (ˈbeɪsɪz)

—n
	the plural of base

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

base

late 14c., from O.Fr. bas (Mod.Fr. bas) "low, lowly, mean," from L.L. bassus "thick, stumpy, low" (used only as a cognomen in classical Latin, humilis being there the usual word for "low in stature or position"), possibly from Oscan, or Celtic, or related to Gk. basson, comparative of bathys "deep."

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Figurative sense of "low in the moral scale" is first attested 1530s in English, earlier "servile" (1520s). Base metals (c.1600) were worthless in contrast to noble or precious metals.

basis

1570s, from L. basis "foundation," from Gk. basis "a step, stand, base, that whereon one stands," from bainein "go, step" (see come).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

base (bās)
n.

The part of an organ nearest its point of attachment.
A fundamental ingredient; a chief constituent of a mixture.
Any of a large class of compounds, including the hydroxides and oxides of metals, having a bitter taste, a slippery solution, the capacity to turn litmus blue, and to react with acids to form salts.
A molecular or ionic substance capable of combining with a proton to form a new substance. Also called Brønsted base.
A nitrogen-containing organic compound that combines in such a manner.
A substance that provides a pair of electrons for a covalent bond with an acid.

basis ba·sis (bā'sĭs)
n. pl. ba·ses (-sēz')
The foundation upon which something, such as an anatomical part, rests.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

base (bās) Pronunciation Key

Chemistry
1. Any of a class of compounds that form hydroxyl ions (OH) when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with acids to form salts. Bases turn red litmus paper blue and have a pH greater than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a bitter taste. Compare acid.
2. See nitrogen base.
3. The side or face of a geometric figure to which an altitude is or is thought to be drawn. The base can be, but is not always, the bottom part of the figure.
4. The number that is raised to various powers to generate the principal counting units of a number system. The base of the decimal system, for example, is 10.
5. The number that is raised to a particular power in a given mathematical expression. In the expression aⁿ, a is the base.
Mathematics
1. The side or face of a geometric figure to which an altitude is or is thought to be drawn. The base can be, but is not always, the bottom part of the figure.
2. The number that is raised to various powers to generate the principal counting units of a number system. The base of the decimal system, for example, is 10.
3. The number that is raised to a particular power in a given mathematical expression. In the expression aⁿ, a is the base.

basis (bā'sĭs) Pronunciation Key
Plural bases (bā'sēz')
A set of independent vectors whose linear combinations define a vector space, such as a reference frame used to establish a coordinate system.

triangulation (trī-āng'gyə-lā'shən) Pronunciation Key
A method of determining the relative positions of points in space by measuring the distances, and sometimes angles, between those points and other reference points whose positions are known. Triangulation often involves the use of trigonometry. It is commonly used in the navigation of aircraft and boats, and is the method used in the Global Positioning System , in which the reference points are satellites.

American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

base definition

Any of a number of bitter-tasting, caustic materials. Technically, a material that produces negative ions in solution. A base is the opposite of an acid and has a pH of 7 to 14. A given amount of a base added to the same amount of an acid neutralizes the acid; water and a salt are produced. Alkalis are bases; ammonia is a common base.

Slang Dictionary

base definition

mod.
rude; gross. (California.) : You are so, like, base!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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