Definition of base

"base" in the noun sense

1. base, base of operations

installation from which a military force initiates operations

"the attack wiped out our forward bases"

2. foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure

lowest support of a structure

"it was built on a base of solid rock"

"he stood at the foot of the tower"

3. base, bag

a place that the runner must touch before scoring

"he scrambled to get back to the bag"

4. base

the bottom or lowest part

"the base of the mountain"

5. base

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

"the base of the skull"

6. floor, base

a lower limit

"the government established a wage floor"

7. basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone

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

"the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"

8. base, pedestal, stand

a support or foundation

"the base of the lamp"

9. nucleotide, base

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

10. base, alkali

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"

11. base

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

"the base of the triangle"

12. basis, base

the most important or necessary part of something

"the basis of this drink is orange juice"

13. base, radix

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

"10 is the radix of the decimal system"

14. base, home

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

15. al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, al Qaeda, al Qaida, Base

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

16. root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical

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

"thematic vowels are part of the stem"

17. infrastructure, base

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

"the industrial base of Japan"

18. base

the principal ingredient of a mixture

"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"

19. base

a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit

"a tub should sit on its own base"

20. base

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

"base" in the verb sense

1. establish, base, ground, found

use as a basis for found on

"base a claim on some observation"

2. base

situate as a center of operations

"we will base this project in the new lab"

3. free-base, base

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

"base" in the adjective sense

1. basal, base

serving as or forming a base

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

2. base, baseborn, humble, lowly

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

"baseborn wretches with dirty faces"

"of humble (or lowly) birth"

3. base

used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal

"base coins of aluminum"

"a base metal"

4. base, immoral

not adhering to ethical or moral principles

"base and unpatriotic motives"

"a base, degrading way of life"

"cheating is dishonorable"

"they considered colonialism immoral"

"unethical practices in handling public funds"

5. base, mean, meanspirited

having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

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

"taking a mean advantage"

"chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare

"something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

6. base, baseborn

illegitimate

7. base

debased not genuine

"an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

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Quotations for base

Bring nothing base to the temple. [ Motto ]

Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain.
And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise;
The noble with the base complies;
The sot assumes the role of wit.
And cowards make the base submit. [ Butler ]

Base in kind, and born to be a slave. [ William Cowper ]

Base souls have no faith in great men. [ Rousseau ]

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I. [ Scott ]

The unwilling gratitude of base mankind! [ Pope ]

I am as free as nature first made man.
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. [ Dryden ]

Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame. [ Spenser ]

Nature hath made nothing so base but can
Read some instruction to the wisest man. [ Aleyn ]

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. [ Homer ]

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach. [ Thomson ]

Of all base passions fear is most accurs'd. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fine clothes oftentimes hide a base descent. [ Proverb ]

Who knows nothing base, fears nothing known. [ Owen Meredith ]

Base terms are bellows to a slackening fire. [ Proverb ]

Uncurbed ambition, unresisting sloth,
And base dependence, are the fiends accurst. [ Mason ]

Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind,
To build a college, or to found a race,
An hospital, a church - and leave behind
Some dome surmounted by his meagre face,
Perhaps he fain would liberate mankind
Even with the very ore which makes them base;
Perhaps he would be wealthiest of his nation,
Or revel in the joys of calculation. [ Byron ]

Less base the fear of death than fear of life. [ Young ]

The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]

Nature counts nothing that she meets with base,
But lives and loves in every place. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

One destined period men in common have,
The great, the base, the coward, and the brave.
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. [ Lansdowne ]

It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard off. [ Proverb ]

Silver, though white.
Yet it draws black lines; it shall not rule my palm
There to mark forth its base corruption. [ Middleton and Rowley ]

It is a base thing to tread upon a man that is down. [ Proverb ]

Money, thou bane and bliss and source of woe,
Whence com'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine. [ Herbert ]

Emulation is lively and generous, envy base and .malicious. [ Proverb ]

Worth begets in base minds envy; in great souls, emulation. [ Fielding ]

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [ Juvenal ]

Worth begets in base minds envy, but in brave souls emulation. [ Proverb ]

It is a most base thing to betray a man because he trusted you. [ Proverb ]

Flattery is like base coin; it impoverishes him who receives it. [ Madame Voillez ]

Flattery is a base coin, to which only our vanity gives currency. [ La Roche ]

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable. [ Joubert ]

Base natures,, if they find themselves suspected, will never be true. [ Proverb ]

'Tis but a base ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy. [ Massinger ]

It is but a base, ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar. [ William Shakespeare ]

Tully was not so eloquent as thou, thou nameless column with the buried base. [ Byron ]

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest. [ Bailey ]

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things - law and war. [ Bailey ]

The instances, that second marriage move, are base respects of thrift, but none of love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor; if they be done to us, to suffer them is valor too. [ Ben Jonson ]

But all his family and the entire neighbourhood regard him as inwardly base, and only showy outside. [ Horace ]

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

It is base to say one thing and to think another; how much more base to write one thing and think another! [ Seneca ]

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. [ Balzac ]

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference. [ Thackeray ]

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. [ Milton ]

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. [ Sterne ]

When a man is base at the heart, he blights his virtues into weaknesses; but when he is true at the heart, he sanctifies his weaknesses into virtues. [ John Ruskin ]

Leave a friend! So base I am not. I followed him in his prosperity, when the skies were clear and shining, and will not leave him when storms begin to rise. [ Metastasio ]

'Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence. Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected. [ Bishop Whately ]

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. [ Emerson ]

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base. [ Cecil ]

A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a philosopher's stone, but it is a stone which the builders refuse. [ John Ruskin ]

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

base in Scrabble®

The word base is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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base in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words containing the sequence base

Word Growth involving base

Shorter words in base

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Longer words containing base

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