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Adjective base has 7 senses

basal, base - serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
Antonyms: incidental, incident (indirect, via basic)
base - (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
Antonym: superior (indirect, via inferior)
base, baseborn, humble, lowly - of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
Antonym: noble (indirect, via lowborn)
base, dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical - 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"
Antonym: right (indirect, via wrong)
base, mean, meanspirited - 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 vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
Antonym: noble (indirect, via ignoble)
base, baseborn - illegitimate
Antonym: legitimate (indirect, via illegitimate)
base - debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
Antonyms: genuine, echt (indirect, via counterfeit)

Noun base has 19 senses

base, alkali - 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"
--₁ is a kind of compound, chemical compound
--₁ has particulars:
pyridine; purine; purine; imidazole, iminazole, glyoxaline; melamine, cyanuramide; pyrimidine

Derived forms: verb base₂, verb basify₁
base, base of operations - installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
--₂ is a kind of military installation
--₂ has particulars:
air base, air station; army base; firebase; navy base; rocket base

Derived form: verb base₃
foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure - lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
--₃ is a kind of support
--₃ is a part of structure, construction
--₃ has particulars: bed; raft foundation
base, bag - place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
--₄ is a kind of baseball equipment
--₄ is a part of baseball diamond, diamond, infield
--₄ has particulars:
first base; home plate, home base, home, plate; second base; third base, third
base, radix - (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
--₅ is a kind of number
base - the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain"
--₆ is a kind of part, piece
base - (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"
--₇ is a kind of bottom
floor, base - a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor"
--₈ is a kind of control
--₈ has particulars: price floor; wage floor
basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone - the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
--₉ is a kind of assumption, supposition, supposal
--₉ is a part of explanation
--₉ has particulars: meat and potatoes
Derived form: verb base₁
base, pedestal, stand - a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"
--₁₀ is a kind of support
--₁₀ has particulars: brass monkey; staddle; trivet; trivet
base - the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle"
--₁₁ is a kind of flank
basis, base - the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice"
--₁₂ is a kind of part, portion, component part, component
base, home - the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
--₁₃ is a kind of location

Derived form: verb base₃
al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base - 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
--₁₄ is a kind of terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
--₁₅ is a kind of form, word form, signifier, descriptor

infrastructure, base - the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan"
--₁₆ is a kind of store, stock, fund
--₁₆ has parts:

base - 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"
--₁₇ is a kind of ingredient

Derived form: verb base₂
base - a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base"
--₁₈ is a kind of bottom, underside, undersurface
--₁₈ is a part of vessel; box; lamp
base - (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
--₁₉ is a kind of electrode
--₁₉ is a part of transistor, junction transistor, electronic transistor

Verb base has 3 senses

establish, base, ground, found - use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"

Derived form: noun base₉
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
free-base, base - use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
--₂ is one way to drug, do drugs

Derived forms: noun base₁, noun base₁₇
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
station, post, base, send, place - assign to a station
--₃ is one way to move, displace

Derived forms: noun base₂, noun base₁₃
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP