Meaning of आधार in English

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
Low in place or position.
Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
Not classical or correct.
Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
The chief ingredient in a compound.
A substance used as a mordant.
The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
The smallest kind of cannon.
That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
The basal plane of a crystal.
The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
The housing of a horse.
A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
An apron.
The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
To reduce the value of; to debase.
The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
The principal component part of a thing.
of Foot
Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
Relative condition; state.
Tread; step; especially, measured tread.
The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
See Fulcrum.
of Fulcrum
A prop or support.
That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.
An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.
The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.
One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.
The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.
The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.
Main support; principal dependence.
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
To protract; to prolong; to extend.
To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage.
To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business.