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base
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[ verb ] use as a basis for; found on
Examples "base a claim on some observation" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)The schools could use the money to pay 4 - year scholarships , based on need , of up_to $ 2000 a year per student . (Los Angeles Times,...)Sprinkel strongly refuted the current neo-stagnationist thesis that we are facing a future of limited and slow growth , declaring that this pessimism `` is based on very limited and questionable evidence '' . (The New York Times,...)Disapproval of the meeting was based largely on the belief that the timing could hardly be worse . (William Gomberg, "Unions and the Anti-Trust Laws"...)In_any_event , it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known , held together by some of the_most fantastic ideas , all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government '' . (U.S. News and World Report,...)The report is based on a survey by Blyth + Company , investment_bankers . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] serving as or forming a base
Synonyms Examples "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" Used in print (Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)Determine if the particular State 's unadjusted allotment ( result obtained in item 11 above ) is less_than its minimum ( base ) allotment , and if so raise its unadjusted allotment to its minimum allotment . For the States which maintain two separate agencies - one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind , and one for the rehabilitation of persons other_than the blind - the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal_year 1954 . Prior to 1960 , in_order to provide matching for the minimum ( base ) allotment , State funds had to equal 1954 State funds . Beginning in 1960 , the matching requirements for the base allotment are being adjusted ( upward or downward , as_required ) 25 % a_year , so that by 1963 the entire support allotment will be matched on the basis of a 40 % pivot State share , with maximum and minimum State shares of 50 % and 30 % , respectively . The pre 1960 rate of Federal participation with_respect_to any State 's base allotment , as_well_as the adjusted rate in_effect during the 1960 - 1962 period , is designated by the statute as that State 's `` adjusted Federal Share '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (military) installation from which a military force initiates operations
Synonyms Examples "the attack wiped out our forward bases" Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)There 'd been a pretty bad incident back at the Marine base . Related terms military_installation army_base air_base navy_base rocket_base firebase military |
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[ noun ] lowest support of a structure
Examples "it was built on a base of solid rock" "he stood at the foot of the tower" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)As he applied the applicator extending from the machine - which consisted_of seven differently colored neon_tubes superimposed on a rectangular base - to the supposedly diseased portions of Mrs._Shaefer 's body , Lee kept_up a steady stream of pseudo scientific mumbo-jumbo . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)The total heat loss through the anode holder included also the heat conducted through the base of the cylindrical piece into the adjacent metal parts . (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)Consider a shear field with a height of H and a cross-sectional area of A opposed by a manometer with a height of h ( referred to the same base as H ) and a cross-sectional area of a . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (baseball,games) place that runner must touch before scoring
Synonyms Examples "he scrambled to get back to the bag" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)Jay_Porter drew a base_on_balls to fill the bases but Don_Wert 's smash was knocked_down by Rudolph for the putout . In four of his nine previous seasons Mays hit as_many_as 25 home_runs and stole as_many_as 25 bases . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)His best years were 1954 when he hit .345 with 41 homers and '55 when he belted 51 home_runs , drove_in 127 and stole 24 bases . Related terms baseball_equipment home_plate third_base second_base first_base baseball_diamond |
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[ noun ] the bottom or lowest part
Examples "the base of the mountain" Used in print (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)The length of the arrow indicates amount of slowing or acceleration at Completion over that at Onset , and the difference in months can be read roughly by referring the arrow to the age scale along the base of each figure , or more precisely by referring to the original data in the appropriate tables . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)At the slope 's base coils of concertina stretched out_of eye range like a wild tangle of children 's hoops , stopped simultaneously , weirdly poised as if awaiting the magic of the child 's touch to start them all rolling again . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
Synonyms Examples "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" Used in print (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)And the more complex the morphophonemic_system is in_relation_to the phonemic base , the less easily a phonemic_system will be analysed without close attention to the morphophonemics - at_least , the less satisfying will a phonemic statement be if it cannot be related through morphophonemic rules to grammatically meaningful structures . (Committee for Economic Development, Distressed...)The existence of a public_school vocational training_program in trade and industry provides a base from which such needs can be filled . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (economics,politics) a lower limit
Synonyms Examples : "the government established a wage floor" Used in print (Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)The following table shows , for selected years , the authorizations , appropriations , allotment base , Federal grants to States and State matching_funds for this part of the grant program . The Act further provides for a `` floor '' or minimum allotment , set at the 1954 level , which is called the `` base '' allotment , and a `` ceiling '' or maximum allotment , for each State . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
Examples : "the base of the skull" Used in print (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)The myocardium of the posterior base of the left_ventricle was replaced by gray scar tissue over a 7.5 cm. area . Microscopically , sections from the posterior base of the left_ventricle of the heart showed several large areas of replacement of muscle by fibrous_tissue . |
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[ noun ] a support or foundation
Examples "the base of the lamp" Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)First_of_all , the six figures of the Buddha you heisted - four Siamese heads , a black obsidian statuette in the earth touching position , and a large brass figure of the Dying_Buddha on a teakwood base . Inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese , a dialect I take it you do n't comprehend . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
Examples "baseborn wretches with dirty faces" "of humble (or lowly) birth" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Its function is to separate from the base ruled mass , among whom private ownership prevails , the governing warrior elite . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics,geometry) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
Examples "the base of the triangle" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (finance,business) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
Synonyms Examples "the industrial base of Japan" |
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[ noun ] (chemistry) any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
Synonyms Examples "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia" |
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[ adjective ] debased; not genuine
Examples "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] not adhering to ethical or moral principles
Synonyms Examples "base and unpatriotic motives" "a base, degrading way of life" "cheating is dishonorable" "they considered colonialism immoral" "unethical practices in handling public funds" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
Synonyms Examples "liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (politics) 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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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 30771
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[ adjective ] (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
Examples "base coins of aluminum" "a base metal" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (in a digital numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
Synonyms Examples "10 is the radix of the decimal system" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the principal ingredient of a mixture
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" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
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