Definitions For Base

noun

• A support or foundation
• A place that the runner must touch before scoring
• (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
• Installation from which a military force initiates operations
• A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
• The principal ingredient of a mixture
• Lowest support of a structure
• The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
• The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• A lower limit
• 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
• The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
• (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
• The bottom or lowest part
• (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
• The most important or necessary part of something
• The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
• Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
• A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
• The bottom or lowest part of something : the part on which something rests or is supported
• Something (such as a group of people or things) that provides support for a place, business, etc.
• A main ingredient to which other things are added to make something

verb

• Use as a basis for; found on
• Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
• Situate as a center of operations
• To have a particular place as the main place where a person works or lives or where a business operates
• Not honest or good
• Having low quality and value

adjective

• Debased; not genuine
• Illegitimate
• Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
• Of low birth or station (base' is archaic in this sense)
• Serving as or forming a base
• Not adhering to ethical or moral principles
• (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal