base

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).


base

a bush taxi, a common type of public transit


base

Borrowed from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).


base

base (nominative singular)
base (nominative plural)
base (genitive singular)
basí (genitive plural)
basi (dative singular)
basím (dative plural)
basi (accusative singular)
base (accusative plural)
base (singular vocative)
base (plural vocative)
basi (locative singular)
basích (locative plural)
basí (instrumental singular)
basemi (instrumental plural)


base

Brønsted-Lowry base
Brønsted-Lowry base#English

(chemistry) base (generally understood to be a Brønsted-Lowry base)

head

base c (singular definite basen, plural indefinite baser)

basen (definite singular)
baser (indefinite plural)
base (indefinite nominative singular)
basen (definite nominative singular)
baser (indefinite nominative plural)
baserne (definite nominative plural)
bases (genitive indefinite singular)
basens (definite genitive singular)
basers (genitive indefinite plural)
basernes (definite genitive plural)

→ Icelandic: basi m

From French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs). Doublet of basis and also related distantly to komme.


base

(chemistry) base (class of compounds), alkali

nl-noun

base f (plural basen, diminutive basetje n)

basen (plural)
basetje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: basa

Borrowed from French base, from Latin basis. Doublet of basis. Also a distant doublet of komst, via Proto-Indo-European *gʷḿ̥tis.


base

Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.

The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.

The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

(cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.

A basic but essential component or ingredient.

A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.

A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.

(baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.

(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

(biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.

(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

(geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.

(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)

The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.

(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.

A number raised to the power of an exponent.

(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

(group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.

(acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar.

1709, J[ohn] Dryden, J[ohn] Oldham, “(please specify the page)”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], →OCLC:

(military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.

[…] with flowers of gold, the body lined with velvet, and the bases, or skirts, with satin; also a frock of black satin, lined with sarcenet, having three welts of the same.

1842, Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, page 246:

(historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

The base (skirt), as opposed to the practical skirt of the tonlet armour, is an affectation in imitation of the civilian fabric garment of the period and may well have been inspired by a similar feature on Maximilian's gift armour.

Both knee-length bases are made from black velvet [...] There was a second type of metal skirt that could be worn with armour: the tonlet. [...] Unlike the base, however, the tonlet did not have a textile counterpart. [...]

2007, AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies. Conference, Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-based Research : Postprints, pages 47–49:

(historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.

(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

bakers in their linen bases

1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess:

Use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets.

1834, Mary Somerville, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences:

A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

(politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.

relations of production
relations of production

(Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.

A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.

TYLER LENNON (played by Louis Healy): Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high.

2019 January 20, Ann Cleeves, Paul Matthew Thompson, 1:26:51 from the start, in Lawrence Gough, director, Vera(Cuckoo) (9), episode 2 (TV series), spoken by Tyler Lennon (Louis Healy):

en-noun

base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)

alkali

chemical compound that will neutralize an acid

acid

antonym(s) of “chemical compound that will neutralize an alkali”

أَسَاس

something from which other things extend

bazë

permanent structure for housing military

perusraaka-aine

cooking, painting, pharmacy: basic but essential component or ingredient

perusvoide

cosmetics: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform

ба́за

baseball: one of the three places that a runner can stand in safety

báze

biology: nucleobase in the context of DNA or RNA

báze

botany: end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support

ба́за

electronics: controlling terminal of a transistor

భూమి

త్రిభుజం వైశాల్యం = అర*భూమి*ఎత్తు

skjoldfod

heraldic charge: lowest third of a shield or field

base

math: number raised to the power of an exponent

kanta

topology: set of sets from which a topology is derived

kanta

topology: topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles

alamies

acrobatics, cheerleading: person who supports the flyer

kanta

linguistics: morpheme that serves as foundation on which affixes can be attached

perusviiva

surveying: line that serves as the origin for measurements

From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.


base

Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

Take a look at that. This is where we are going to be basing this season.

2024 February 4, Grian, 23:40 from the start, in Hermitcraft 10: Episode 1 - THE START:

(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).

Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows.

2005, John T. Warren, Laura B. Lengel, Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context, →ISBN, page 73:

(acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

You know he started to base at a hell of a pace / And now it's a disgrace, he's got the pipe in his face

1984, “8 Million Stories”, in Ego Trip, performed by Kurtis Blow ft. Run-DMC:

en-verb

base (third-person singular simple present bases, present participle basing, simple past and past participle based)

bases (present singular third-person)
basing (participle present)
based (participle past)
based (past)

يُبْنَى عَلَى

have as its foundation or starting point


base

The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot.

1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, line 664:

I see thy glory like a shooting star / Fall to the base earth from the firmament.

c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 2, scene 4, lines 19–20:

If thou livest in paine and sorrow, thy base courage is the cause of it, To die there wanteth but will.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

UUhat meanes the mightie Turkiſh Emperor
To talke with one ſo baſe as Tamburlaine?

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custome, and permit / The curiosity of Nations, to deprive me? For that I am some twelve, or fourteen Moonshines / Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? Wherefore base? / When my Dimensions are as well compact, My minde as generous, and my shape as true / As honest madams issue? Why brand they us / With Base? With basenes Bastardie? Base, Base?

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 285, column 2:

a peasant and base swain

1623, Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum:

(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.

a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind

1551, Ralph Robynson, transl., More's Utopia:

base ingratitude

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it.[…]”

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

We never, ever change / We make, the same mistakes / If you're gonna have roads / You're gonna have roadkill / That's the risk that it takes / Stone guns / Primitive tanks / Base emotions drive the horde / The diplomat takes, the rook from the board / I want to know what was, in the briefcase / Colder than cold war / Enemies without uniforms

2012, “The Diplomat”, performed by Pig Destroyer:

Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.

'Like this horrible film.'
'Horrible?' Lenina was genuinely astonished. 'But I thought it was lovely.'
'It was base,' he said indignantly, 'it was ignoble.'

1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:

(now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.

(of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.

base coin

base bullion

Why bastard? Wherefore base?

c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 2, line 6:

(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.

base Latin

1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

the base tone of a violin

A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.

(law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.

en-adj

base (comparative baser or more base, superlative basest or most base)

baser (comparative)
more base (comparative)
basest (superlative)
most base (superlative)

From Middle English base, bas, from Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus (“low”). Cognate with Spanish bajo, Italian basso and base.


base

to run the country base

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

So ran they all, as they had bene at bace, / They being chased that did others chase.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.

Probably a specific use of Etymology 1, above; perhaps also a development of the plural of bar.


base

→ Czech: báze

→ Danish: base
→ Icelandic: basi m

→ Norwegian:

→ Norwegian Bokmål: base

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: base

→ Romanian: bază

desctree

→ Russian: база (baza)
→ Armenian: բազա (baza)
→ Azerbaijani:
Cyrillic script: база
Latin script: baza
→ Crimean Tatar:
Cyrillic script: база
Latin script: baza
→ Georgian: ბაზა (baza)
→ Kazakh:
Arabic script: بازا (baza)
Cyrillic script: база (baza)
→ Mongolian:
Mongolian script: [Term?]
Cyrillic script: бааз (baaz)
→ Tuvan: бааза (baaza)

→ Vietnamese: bazơ

Inherited from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).


base

A foundation or base; the bottom of a building.

The foundation, base, or bottom of a column, statue, or vase.

(rare) Padding inserted below a horse's bridle.

(rare) A hand's palm; the section of a hand below the fingers.

(rare, alchemy) The mix of metals used as a base for alchemical operations.

English: base

Scots: base

Borrowed from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis.


base

inflection of bassit:
present indicative connegative

inflection of bassit:
second-person singular imperative

inflection of bassit:
imperative connegative


base

basen (definite singular)
baser (indefinite plural)
basene (definite plural)

From English base, and French base (in chemistry). Ultimately from Latin basis and a doublet of basis.


base

basen (definite singular)
basar (indefinite plural)
basane (definite plural)


base

fro-noun

base oblique singular, f (oblique plural bases, nominative singular base, nominative plural bases)

base oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
bases (oblique plural)
base (nominative singular)
bases (nominative plural)

desctree

French: base
→ Czech: báze
→ Danish: base
→ Icelandic: basi m
→ Norwegian:
→ Norwegian Bokmål: base
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: base
→ Romanian: bază
→ Russian: база (baza)
→ Armenian: բազա (baza)
→ Azerbaijani:
Cyrillic script: база
Latin script: baza
→ Crimean Tatar:
Cyrillic script: база
Latin script: baza
→ Georgian: ბაზა (baza)
→ Kazakh:
Arabic script: بازا (baza)
Cyrillic script: база (baza)
→ Mongolian:
Mongolian script: [Term?]
Cyrillic script: бааз (baaz)
→ Tuvan: бааза (baaza)
→ Vietnamese: bazơ

⇒ French: baser
→ Dutch: baseren
→ Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: basere
Norwegian Nynorsk: basere
→ Romanian: baza

→ Middle English: base, bace, bas, baas, basse
English: base
Scots: base


base

[…] nunca faço uma make completa, escolho sempre as coisas mais básicas, e só tive uma embalagem de base na vida.

2023 April 1, Gisela Casimiro, Estendais, Leya, →ISBN:

[…] I never do a full face of makeup, I always choose the most basic things, and I've only had one bottle of foundation in my life.


base

Base on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ᵉˢ

(Marxism) base (forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life)


base

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of basar:
third-person singular imperative


base

Borrowed from Spanish base (“basis”). The baseball definition is from English base, but pronounced the same as the Spanish word.