based

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    adj.

  • being derived from (often followed by `on' or `upon')

    a film based on a best-selling novel

  • having a base

    firmly based ice

  • having a basis; often used as combining terms; founded

    a soundly based argument

    a computer-based system

    well-founded suspicions

  • having a base of operations (often used as a combining form)

    a locally based business

    an Atlanta-based company

    carrier-based planes

    n.

  • any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; alkali

    bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia

  • installation from which a military force initiates operations; base of operations

    the attack wiped out our forward bases

  • lowest support of a structure; foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure

    it was built on a base of solid rock

    he stood at the foot of the tower

  • place that runner must touch before scoring; bag

    he scrambled to get back to the bag

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

    10 is the radix of the decimal system

  • the bottom or lowest part

    the base of the mountain

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

    the base of the skull

  • a lower limit; floor

    the government established a wage floor

  • the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone

    the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture

  • a support or foundation; pedestal, stand

    the base of the lamp

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

    the base of the triangle

  • the most important or necessary part of something; basis

    the basis of this drink is orange juice

  • the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end; home
  • 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; al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base
  • (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; root, root word, stem, theme, radical

    thematic vowels are part of the stem

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

    the industrial base of Japan

  • 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

  • a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit

    a tub should sit on its own base

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

    adj.

  • serving as or forming a base; basal

    the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats

  • (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal

    base coins of aluminum

    a base metal

  • of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); baseborn, humble, lowly

    baseborn wretches with dirty faces

    of humble (or lowly) birth

  • not adhering to ethical or moral principles; dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical

    base and unpatriotic motives

    a base, degrading way of life

    cheating is dishonorable

    they considered colonialism immoral

    unethical practices in handling public funds

  • having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; mean, meanspirited

    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

  • illegitimate; baseborn
  • debased; not genuine

    an attempt to eliminate the base coinage

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

bases|based|basing
syn.: bottom cowardly establish fix found foundation groundwork headquarters inferior low mean selfish set settle station
ant.: classical noble peak proud virtuous