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(satellite adjective) debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage" |
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(satellite adjective) (archaic) illegitimate |
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Synonyms: baseborn |
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(satellite adjective) having or showing a meanspirited 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" |
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Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
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(satellite adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" |
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Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical |
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(satellite adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal" |
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(noun) a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp" |
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Synonyms: pedestal, stand |
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Related Words: brass monkey, staddle, support, trivet |
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(noun) place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" |
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Synonyms: bag |
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Related Words: baseball equipment, first base, home, home plate, plate, second base, third, third base |
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(noun) (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector |
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Related Words: electrode |
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(noun) installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" |
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Synonyms: base of operations |
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Related Words: air base, air station, army base, firebase, military installation, navy base, rocket base |
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(noun) a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base" |
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Related Words: bottom, underside, undersurface |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: ingredient |
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(noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end |
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Synonyms: home |
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Related Words: location |
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(noun) (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment: "the base of the skull" |
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Related Words: bottom |
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(noun) the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain" |
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Related Words: part, piece |
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(noun) (in a digital numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system" |
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Synonyms: radix |
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Related Words: number |
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(noun) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle" |
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Related Words: flank |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: alkali |
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Related Words: chemical compound, compound, cyanuramide, cytosine, glyoxaline, imidazole, iminazole, melamine, purine, pyridine, thymine, uracil |
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(verb) use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation" |
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Synonyms: establish, found, ground |
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Related Words: build |
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(verb) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes |
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Synonyms: free-base |
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Related Words: do drugs, drug |
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(satellite adjective) serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" |
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Synonyms: basal |
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(noun) lowest supporting part of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" |
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Synonyms: foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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Related Words: bed, raft foundation, support |
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(noun) the basic facilities and equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" |
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Synonyms: infrastructure |
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Related Words: construction, structure |
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(noun) the fundamental assumptions underlying an explanation; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" |
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Synonyms: basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
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Related Words: assumption, supposition |
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(noun) a lower limit: "the government established a wage floor" |
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Synonyms: floor |
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Related Words: control |
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(verb) assign to a station |
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Synonyms: place, post, send, station |
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Related Words: displace, fort, garrison, locate, move, place, site |
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(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" |
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Synonyms: radical, root, root word, stem, theme |
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Related Words: form, word form |
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