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base 
adjective
- serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
Synonyms: basal Similar: basic - (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
Similar: inferior - of low birth or station (`base'' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly Similar: lowborn - 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"
Synonyms: dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical Similar: wrong - 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 vulga
Synonyms: mean, meanspirited Similar: ignoble - illegitimate
Synonyms: baseborn Similar: illegitimate - debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
Similar: counterfeit, imitative
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"
Synonyms: alkali - installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
Synonyms: base of operations - lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
Synonyms: foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure - place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
Synonyms: bag - (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
Synonyms: radix - 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; "the government established a wage floor"
Synonyms: floor - the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
Synonyms: basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork - a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"
Synonyms: pedestal, stand - 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; "the basis of this drink is orange juice"
Synonyms: basis - the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
Synonyms: home - 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
Synonyms: al-Qa'ida, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Qaeda - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
Synonyms: radical, root, root word, stem, theme - the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan"
Synonyms: infrastructure - 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
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