| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | bey's |
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| Rhymes | ace / ACE, aerospace, airspace, and 64 more rhymes in eys at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Serving as or forming a base. |
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| Examples | "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" |
| Synonyms | basal |
| Similar to | basic |
| Meaning | (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal. |
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| Examples | "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal" |
| Similar to | inferior |
| Meaning | Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense). |
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| Examples | "baseborn wretches with dirty faces" |
| Synonyms | baseborn, humble, lowly |
| Similar to | lowborn |
| Meaning | Not adhering to ethical or moral principles. |
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| Examples | "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life" |
| Synonyms | dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical |
| Similar to | wrong |
| Meaning | Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality. |
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| Examples | "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke |
| Synonyms | mean, meanspirited |
| Similar to | ignoble |
| Adverbs | basely |
| Meaning | Illegitimate. |
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| Synonyms | baseborn |
| Similar to | illegitimate |
| Usage | archaism, archaicism |
| Meaning | Debased. Not genuine. |
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| Examples | "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage" |
| Similar to | counterfeit, imitative |
| Meaning | Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water. |
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| Examples | "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia" |
| Synonyms | alkali |
| Narrower | pyridine; purine; purine; imidazole, iminazole, glyoxaline; melamine, cyanuramide; pyrimidine |
| Broader | compound, chemical compound |
| Verbs | basify; base |
| Meaning | Installation from which a military force initiates operations. |
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| Examples | "the attack wiped out our forward bases" |
| Synonyms | base of operations |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Narrower | air base, air station; army base; firebase; navy base; rocket base |
| Broader | military installation |
| Verbs | base |
| Meaning | Lowest support of a structure. |
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| Examples | "it was built on a base of solid rock" |
| Synonyms | foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| Part of | structure, construction |
| Narrower | bed; raft foundation |
| Broader | support |
| Meaning | Place that runner must touch before scoring. |
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| Synonyms | bag |
| Part of | baseball diamond, diamond, infield |
| Narrower | first base; home plate, home base, home, plate; second base; third base, third |
| Broader | baseball equipment |
| Meaning | (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place. |
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| Synonyms | radix |
| Category | numeration system, number system, number representation system, system of numeration |
| Broader | number |
| Meaning | The bottom or lowest part. |
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| Examples | "the base of the mountain" |
| Broader | part, piece |
| Meaning | (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment. |
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| Examples | "the base of the skull" |
| Category | anatomy, general anatomy |
| Broader | bottom |
| Adjectives | basilar, basilary |
| Meaning | A lower limit. |
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| Synonyms | floor |
| Narrower | price floor; wage floor |
| Broader | control |
| Meaning | The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained. |
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| Synonyms | basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone |
| Part of | explanation |
| Narrower | meat and potatoes |
| Broader | assumption, supposition, supposal |
| Verbs | base |
| Meaning | A support or foundation. |
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| Examples | "the base of the lamp" |
| Synonyms | pedestal, stand |
| Narrower | brass monkey; staddle; trivet; trivet |
| Broader | support |
| Meaning | The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed. |
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| Examples | "the base of the triangle" |
| Broader | flank |
| Meaning | The most important or necessary part of something. |
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| Synonyms | basis |
| Broader | part, portion, component part, component |
| Meaning | The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end. |
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| Synonyms | home |
| Broader | location |
| Verbs | base |
| Meaning | An intensely anti-western terrorist network that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist group. Has cells in more than 50 countries. |
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| Synonyms | al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida |
| Region | Afghanistan, Islamic State of Afghanistan; Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, West Pakistan |
| Broader | terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO |
| Meaning | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. |
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| Synonyms | root, root word, stem, theme, radical |
| Category | linguistics |
| Broader | form, word form, signifier, descriptor |
| Meaning | The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area. |
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| Examples | "the industrial base of Japan" |
| Synonyms | infrastructure |
| Parts | communication system, communication equipment; fire station, firehouse; gas system; main; penal institution, penal facility; power system, power grid, grid; public works; school system; sewage system, sewer system, sewage works; transportation system, transportation, transit; water system, water supply, water |
| Broader | store, stock, fund |
| Meaning | The principal ingredient of a mixture. |
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| Examples | "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"; "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base" |
| Broader | ingredient |
| Verbs | base |
| Meaning | A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit. |
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| Examples | "a tub should sit on its own base" |
| Part of | box; lamp; vessel |
| Broader | bottom, underside, undersurface |
| Meaning | (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector. |
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| Category | electronics |
| Part of | transistor, junction transistor, electronic transistor |
| Broader | electrode |
| Meaning | Use as a basis for. Found on. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "base a claim on some observation" |
| Synonyms | establish, ground, found |
| Narrower | build |
| Participle | based |
| Nouns | base |
| Meaning | Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | free-base |
| Broader | drug, do drugs |
| Nouns | base; base |
| Meaning | Assign to a station. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP |
| Synonyms | station, post, send, place |
| Narrower | garrison; fort; locate, place, site |
| Broader | move, displace |
| Nouns | base; base |