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单词 base
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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:

a crystal glass with a heavy base
At the base of the cliff was a rocky beach.
This cream provides an excellent base for your make-up (= a good bottom layer on which other layers can be put).

More examples

  • 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:

I spend a lot of time in Brussels, but London is still my base.
Nice is an excellent base for (= place to stay when) exploring the French Riviera.

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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:

an old naval/military base

More examples

  • 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.:

A strong economy depends on a healthy manufacturing base.
We're aiming to expand our customer base.

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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:

a cocktail with a whisky base

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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:

A binary number is a number written in base 2, using the two numbers 0 and 1.

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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/literary

not showing any honour and having no morals:

I accused him of having base motives.

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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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basely
adverb uk/ˈbeɪs.li/us/ˈbeɪs.li/
baseness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈbeɪs.nəs/us/ˈbeɪs.nəs/

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:

Where is your firm based?
He was based in (= he lived in or was at a military establishment in) Birmingham during the war.

More examples

  • 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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Phrasal verb(s)

base sth on sth

basenoun

base noun (BOTTOM)

us/beɪs/[ C ] the bottom of an object; the part on which it rests:

This lamp has a heavy base so it won’t tip over.

geometry us/beɪs/[ C ] A base angle is one of the two equal angles that include the bottom of an isosceles triangle.

base noun (MAIN PLACE)

us/beɪs/[ C ] the place from which a business operates or a person works:

We have an office in San Diego, but Washington is still our base.

us/beɪs/[ C ] A base is also a place from which the military operates that provides weapons storage and housing:

The military has bases all over the US.

base noun (SUBSTANCE)

biology /beɪs/[ C ] one of four chemical substances that make up the part of DNA and RNA that controls the structure of genes

base noun (CHEMICAL)

chemistry /beɪs/[ C/U ] any of various chemical substances that have the opposite effect or chemical behavior as that of an acid

base noun (NUMBER)

mathematics /beɪs/[ C ] a number that is multiplied by itself:

In 6³, 6 is the base and it is multiplied by 6 three times.

base noun (MAIN PART)

us/beɪs/[ C usually sing ] the main part of something, or the people or activities that form the main part of something:

The sauce has an olive oil base.
Tourism remains the city’s economic base.
He’ll need a wide base of regional support to win the election.

base noun (WORD PART)

grammar /beɪs/[ C ] a word or word part to which prefixes and endings may be added to make new words, as in "do," the base of "redo" and "doable"

base noun (BASEBALL)

us/beɪs/[ C ] (in the game of baseball) one of the four angles of a square, all of which a player must touch in order to score:

He reached first base on a single.

baseverb [ T always + adv/prep ]

us/beɪs/

to establish a place as the place from which a business operates or a person works:

Where is your company based?

Phrasal verb(s)

base something on something
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