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(adj) baseborn
illegitimate
(adj) 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
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
baseborn wretches with dirty faces; of humble (or lowly) birth
(adj) basal
serving as or forming a base
the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats
(adj) 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
a support or foundation
the base of the lamp
(noun) bag
a place that the runner must touch before scoring
he scrambled to get back to the bag
(noun) base of operations
installation from which a military force initiates operations
the attack wiped out our forward bases
(noun) foot, foundation, fundament, understructure, substructure, groundwork
lowest support of a structure
it was built on a base of solid rock; he stood at the foot of the tower
(noun) infrastructure
the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
the industrial base of Japan
(noun) foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone, basis
the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture
(noun) stem, theme, root, root word, radical
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
thematic vowels are part of the stem
(noun) floor
a lower limit
the government established a wage floor
(noun) al-Qa'ida, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Base, Qaeda
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
(noun) home
the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
(noun) 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
(noun) basis
the most important or necessary part of something
the basis of this drink is orange juice
(noun) 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
(noun) nucleotide
a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
(verb) found, establish, ground
use as a basis for; found on
base a claim on some observation
(verb) free-base
use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes