basenoun
uk/beɪs/us/beɪs/base noun (BOTTOM)
B2 [ C ] the bottom part of an object, on which it rests, or the lowest part of something:
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- Draw a perpendicular from the vertex of the triangle to its base.
- Firefighters played their hoses onto the base of the fire.
- Sand carried by the wind has hollowed out the base of the cliff.
- The doctor manipulated the base of my spine and the pain disappeared completely.
- The base of the bed was made of slats.
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Surfaces of objects
- -backed
- back
- bed
- crust
- face
- facet
- flange
- front
- nap
- outside
- overlay
- plate
- rear
- reverse
- side
- substrate
- superficialis
- surface area
- underneath
- underside
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base noun (MAIN PLACE)
B2 [ C ] the main place where a person lives and works, or a place that a company does business from:
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Places involved in military activity
- Bastille
- battlefield
- battleground
- beachhead
- billet
- boot camp
- camp
- fort
- garrison
- GHQ
- guard post
- guardhouse
- line
- parade ground
- PX
- redoubt
- sentry box
- staging area
- theatre
- unmanned
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base noun (MILITARY)
a place where there are military buildings and weapons and where members of the armed forces live:
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- A team of commandoes got the hostages out from the rebel base.
- They radioed their base for help.
- The aircraft base is protected with specially designed shelters which are built to withstand ground and air attacks.
- Military bases were protected by captured enemy soldiers who were housed there as a human shield.
- The violence is unlikely to stop without military strikes against terrorist bases.
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Places involved in military activity
- Bastille
- battlefield
- battleground
- beachhead
- billet
- boot camp
- camp
- fort
- garrison
- GHQ
- guard post
- guardhouse
- line
- parade ground
- PX
- redoubt
- sentry box
- staging area
- theatre
- unmanned
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base noun (IN BASEBALL)
[ C ] one of the four positions on a square that a player must reach to score a point in the game of baseball
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Baseball & rounders
- backstop
- ball
- ballgame
- base hit
- batter
- batting average
- bunt
- catcher
- curveball
- grounder
- groundout
- home run
- infielder
- peg
- pitcher
- screwball
- sock
- strike
- stuff
- the World Series
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base noun (NECESSARY PART)
[ C ] the activity or people from which someone or something gets most of their support, money, etc.:
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Origins and sources
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc. idiom
- beginning
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- come from somewhere/sth
- emanate from/through sth/sb
- fount
- genesis
- hail
- hail from somewhere
- issue from sth
- recipe
- root
- seed
- son
- source
- stem
- stem from sth
- the cradle of sth idiom
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base noun (MAIN PART)
C2 [ C usually singular ] the main part of something:
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Important and essential things
- -based
- amenity
- be-all
- big league
- biggie
- flagship
- grandaddy
- heavyweight
- hot button
- imperative
- kernel
- keynote
- keystone
- nucleus
- pivot
- precondition
- prerequisite
- priority
- requisite
- sine qua non
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base noun (IN MATHEMATICS)
[ C usually singular ] specialized mathematics the number on which a counting system is built:
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Terms for numbers
- additive inverse
- aliquot
- common denominator
- common factor
- common multiple
- cos
- exponent
- fivefold
- fold
- fortyfold
- fourfold
- GCF
- hundredfold
- odd
- recurring number
- remainder
- resultant
- sevenfold
- seventyfold
- weighting
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base noun (IN CHEMISTRY)
[ C ] specialized chemistry a chemical that dissolves in water and combines with an acid to create a salt
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Chemistry: types of chemical
- acid salt
- alkali
- alkali metal
- alkyl
- alkyne
- anhydrous
- dioxide
- hydrate
- hydro-
- insoluble
- oxide
- petrochemical
- polymer
- stain
- stearic acid
- strong acid
- strong base
- universal indicator
- weak acid
- weak base
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baseadjective
uk/beɪs/us/beɪs/literarynot showing any honour and having no morals:
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Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- scandalous
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- wicked
- wickedness
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baseverb [ T usually + adv/prep ]
uk/beɪs/us/beɪs/B2 to have a particular town or area, etc. as the main place that you live and work in, or where you do business from:
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- He was based in London during the war.
- He's based in Paris during the week.
- The company is based in Coventry.
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Placing and positioning an object
- -based
- appose
- bung
- change sth around
- consign
- consign sb/sth to sth
- fit
- install
- manoeuvre
- perch
- position
- sandwich sb/sth between sb/sth
- sandwich sth together
- set sb down
- set sth down
- shelve
- shove
- stand
- stuff
- whack
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