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base (BAYS) (s), bases (pl) (nouns)
1. Support, pedestal, stand, bottom, foundation, substructure, ground, bed: "The lamp stands on a circular base."

"The tall building utilizes several kinds of bases or foundations to hold it solidly in place."

2. Foundation, essence, principle, root, core, heart, key, rudiment, ground, source: "The base of his argument is that our price is too high."
3. Essential ingredient, principal constituent: "The soup has a tomato base."
4. Camp, station, post, billet, installation, garrison: "The weary troops marched back to their base."

"U.S. military units still have several bases in Europe."

5. To derive from, to model on, to found on: "This song is based on an old folk tune."
6. Station, garrison, locate, situate, install, ground, establish, place: "The company’s headquarters is based in Berlin. The army’s 3rd Armored Division was based at Fort Knox."
7. Inferior, poor quality; alloyed, debased, adulterated, impure, spurious: "Zinc and brass are base metals."
8. Mean, vile, low, contemptible, despicable, ignoble, shameful, immoral, sneaky, petty: "Cheating at cards is a base practice."
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base, base, bass, bass
base (BAYS) (noun)
1. Support, bottom, foundation, substructure: The lamp stands on a circular base.
2. Foundation, essence, core, source: The base of Vern's argument is that the price is too high.
3. Camp, station, post, billet, installation: The weary troops marched back to their base.
base (BAYS) (adjective)
1. Inferior, poor quality; adulterated, impure: Zinc and brass are base metals.
2. Lacking proper social values or moral principles; not honest or good: Tom's base motives were soon obvious when he walked off with all of the money people had entrusted to him for their investments.
bass (BAYS) (noun)
1. The range of the lowest male voice, below baritone: Ty sang bass in the quartet.
2. A low, deep sound or tone, as of a voice or a musical instrument: Lorie's father had a bass voice that stood out from any other man that Rhoda had ever heard.
bass (BAHS) (noun)
A kind of fresh or salt-water fish: "Nelda and Donovan caught five large bass for tonight’s fish dinner."

The bass swam around the bass drum in the river where another bass was painted on the base of that bass drum.

Rocco, the villainous singer sang his song in his base bass voice.

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bas-, baso-, basi-, ba-, bat-
(Greek > Latin: stepping, to step, to go, to walk; a place where someone steps; a pedestal; a foot for stepping; foundation, ground, base)
fundu-, fundus-, fund-, found- +
(Latin: bottom, base; and with special reference to financial applications, "piece of land")
sol-, -sol +
(Latin: base, ground, soil, bottom; the lowest part of something; sole of the foot or a shoe)
vili-, vil-
(Latin: cheap, worthless, base, common; low status, low quality)
chemo-, chem-, chemico-, chemi-, -chemist, -chemic, -chemical +
(Arabic > Greek > Latin: the art of combining base metals [to make gold]; from Greek, chemia, “Egypt”, supposedly where the art of changing metals into gold existed)
Education: Jobs and Global Trade, Part 3
(a crisis which involves the steady erosion of America's scientific and engineering base has been going on for several years)
spheno-, sphen-
(Greek: a wedge; the sphenoid bone, a wedge-shaped bone found at the base of the skull)
thalam-, thalamo- +
(Greek > Latin: inner room, bedchamber; so called by Galen because chambers at the base of the brain were thought to supply animal spirits to the optic nerves; thalamus, the middle part of the diencephalon (the area in the center of the brain just above the brain stem that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus) which relays sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex of the brain)
tinnit-, tintinnabu-, tintinnabul-
(Latin: to ring, to jingle; formed by reduplication (for the sake of emphasis) from the base of Latin tinnire, which is of imitative origin.)
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acid-base balance (s) (noun), acid-base balances (pl)
The mechanisms which the body uses to keep its fluids close to neutral pH (that is, neither basic nor acidic) so the body can function as it should in a normal way.
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calibration baseline (s) (noun), calibration base lines (pl)
In mapping, a line on which markers are placed at intervals which are accurately measured so they can be used for distance-measuring instruments or equipment.
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electrolyte and acid/base balance
A nursing outcome from the Nursing Outcomes Classification, NOC, defined as a balance of electrolytes and non-electrolytes in the intracellular and extracellular compartments of the body.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 35) libra-, liber-, libri- (page 1) lyso-, lyo-, -lysin, -lys-, -lysis, -lytic, -lyt-, -lyz- (page 3)
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base 10
A numbering system in which each place to the left or right of the decimal represents a power of 10.
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base load
The average amount of electric power that a utility must supply in any period.
This entry is located in the following units: load, loading, loaded (page 1) Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 2)