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Meaning of BASE in English

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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    Meaning of BASE 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.

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