1. Use as a basis for; found on
   "base a claim on some observation";
   - establish, ground, found
    
2. Situate as a centre of operations
   "we will base this project in the new lab"
    
3. Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
   "The addict was caught free-basing in the abandoned building";
   - free-base

1. Serving as or forming a base
   "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats";
   - basal
    
2. Not adhering to ethical or moral principles
   "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life";
   - immoral
    
3. Having or showing an ignoble lack of honour or morality
   "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble";
   - mean, meanspirited
    
4. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
   "base coins of aluminium"; "a base metal"
    
5. Debased; not genuine
   "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
    
6. [archaic] Of low birth or station
   "base wretches with dirty faces";
   - baseborn [archaic], humble, lowly
    
7. [archaic] Illegitimate
   "The king's base-born son had no claim to the throne";
   - baseborn [archaic]

1. The bottom or lowest part
   "the base of the mountain"
    
2. Lowest support of a structure
   "it was built on a base of solid rock";
   - foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
    
3. A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
   "a tub should sit on its own base"
    
4. The most important or necessary part of something
   "the base of this drink is orange juice";
   - basis
    
5. A support or foundation
   "the base of the lamp";
   - pedestal, stand
    
6. The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun, developed, calculated or explained
   "the whole argument rested on a base of conjecture";
   - basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone
    
7. (military) installation from which a military force initiates operations
   "the attack wiped out our forward bases"; "The remote island served as a base of operations for the naval task force";
   - base of operations
    
8. The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
   "The rescue team returned to base after completing their mission"; "The aircraft carrier served as home base for the squadron";
   - home
    
9. A place that the runner must touch before scoring
   "he scrambled to get back to the base";
   - bag
    
10. (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
    "the base of the skull"
     
11. A lower limit
    "the government established a wage base";
    - floor
     
12. The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
    "the industrial base of Japan";
    - infrastructure
     
13. The principal ingredient of a mixture
    "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base"; "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"; "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"
     
14. (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative centre of an enterprise
    "many companies have their home base in New York";
    - headquarters, central office, main office, home office, home base
     
15. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
    "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia";
    - alkali
     
16. A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
    "The sequence of bases determines the genetic information in DNA";
    - nucleotide
     
17. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
    "thematic vowels are part of the base";
    - root, root word, stem, theme, radical
     
18. The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
    "the base of the triangle"
     
19. (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
    "10 is the base of the decimal system";
    - radix
     
20. [informal] A politician's or political party's core group of loyal supporters, often with strong ideological alignment
    "The candidate's speech was aimed at energizing their base ahead of the election"
     
21. (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
    "The base region in a bipolar transistor controls the flow of current"

Sounds like: bass

Derived forms: bases, based, basest, basing, baser

See also: basic, counterfeit, ignoble, illegitimate, imitative, inferior, lowborn, wrong

Type of: arsenal, assumption, baseball equipment, bottom, business office, chemical compound, component, component part, compound, constituent, control, descriptor, do drugs [informal], drug, electrode, ester, father, flank, form, fund, ingredient, initiate, locate, location, military installation, number, office, originate, part, piece, portion, signifier, situate, start, stock, store, support, supposal, supposition, underneath, underside, undersurface, word form

Part of: baseball diamond, box, construction, diamond, electronic transistor, explanation, infield, junction transistor, lamp, structure, transistor, vessel

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