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Base \Base\, n. [F. base, L. basis, fr. Gr. ba`sis a stepping, step, a base, pedestal, fr. bai`nein to go, step, akin to E. come. Cf. Basis, and see Come.]

  1. The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue. ``The base of mighty mountains.''
    --Prescott.

  2. Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

  3. (Arch.)

    1. The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.

    2. The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.

  4. (Bot.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.

  5. (Chem.) 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.

  6. (Pharmacy) The chief ingredient in a compound.

  7. (Dyeing) A substance used as a mordant.
    --Ure.

  8. (Fort.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

  9. (Geom.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.

  10. (Math.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.

  11. [See Base low.] A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.)

    1. The lowest part; the deepest male voice.

    2. One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.

      The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar.
      --Dryden.

  12. (Mil.) 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.

  13. (Mil.) The smallest kind of cannon. [Obs.]

  14. (Zo["o]l.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.

  15. (Crystallog.) The basal plane of a crystal.

  16. (Geol.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.

  17. (Her.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.

  18. The housing of a horse. [Obs.]

  19. pl. 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. [Obs.]

  20. The lower part of a robe or petticoat. [Obs.]

  21. An apron. [Obs.] ``Bakers in their linen bases.''
    --Marston.

  22. The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.

    To their appointed base they went.
    --Dryden.

  23. (Surv.) 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.
    --Lyman.

  24. A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars. ``To run the country base.''
    --Shak.

  25. (Baseball) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield. Altern base. See under Altern. Attic base. (Arch.) See under Attic. Base course. (Arch.)

    1. The first or lower course of a foundation wall, made of large stones or a mass of concrete; -- called also foundation course.

    2. The architectural member forming the transition between the basement and the wall above. Base hit (Baseball), a hit, by which the batsman, without any error on the part of his opponents, is able to reach the first base without being put out. Base line.

      1. A main line taken as a base, as in surveying or in military operations.

      2. A line traced round a cannon at the rear of the vent.

        Base plate, the foundation plate of heavy machinery, as of the steam engine; the bed plate.

        Base ring (Ordnance), a projecting band of metal around the breech, connected with the body of the gun by a concave molding.
        --H. L. Scott.

Wiktionary
bars

n. 1 (plural of bar English) 2 (context sports English) An event in gymnastics. 3 (context sports English) The apparatus on which this event is performed. vb. (en-third-person singular of: bar)

WordNet
bars

n. gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights [syn: parallel bars]

Wikipedia
BARS

BARS may refer to:

  • BARS apparatus, a high-pressure apparatus for growing/processing minerals
  • Balanced Automatics Recoil System, a recoil reduction system developed by Peter Andreevich Tkachev
  • BARS (aircraft), a hybrid of airplane, airship, helicopter and hovercraft (see List of Russian inventions#Aviation)
  • B.A.R.S. The Barry Adrian Reese Story, an album by hip-hop artist Cassidy
  • Behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS), used to report performance in psychology research on behaviorism
  • BARS (tropospheric scatter network), a Warsaw Pact tropospheric scatter communications network in Eastern Europe
  • British American Railway Services, a train owner and operator in the United Kingdom
  • Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, an annual film festival for fantasy, sci-fi and horror films

Bars or bars may refer to:

  • Plural for bar
  • See Akula class submarine for Bars submarine (from Russian 'барс' meaning 'panther')
  • Bars class submarine (1915) built for the Imperial Russian Navy
  • Bars county, a former Kingdom of Hungary county in present-day Slovakia
  • Bars, Dordogne, commune of the Dordogne département in France
  • Bars, Gers, a commune of the Gers département in France

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Usage examples of "bars".

Pickup teams from the other bars get together, we have a game every now and again.

Most kids her age hang out at Peanuts or the Palm, or the bars in the Valley.

But there was also the nagging feeling that something else still lay within her field of vision, something she had not quite seen, something that might have helped place Roland Quillin behind bars where he belonged.

Here we had spent decades and the lives of so many good soldiers and trillions of bars of latinum to help restore some semblance of order to this ungrateful world, and still its pathetic natives resisted us.

In frustration, Odo set the tricorder to register any energy phenomenon, and the small display screen suddenly turned bright red as all intensity bars filled their scales.

The windowless walls were steel, as were the bars around the corn crib.

At night, Bob and I followed CJ around the pool tables, bars, and beer joints of Gatlin and Travis counties, picking up bits and pieces of information, tracking tidbits of gossip, following the rills of rumors.

This verified the rumors Bob and I had picked up in the bars from people who had once worked for the Lomaxes.

Inside the gate tower was the great portcullis, a vast mass of crossed iron bars that could be lowered rapidly in case of attack.

She tidied up made the bed, laid out clean towels, put in new soap bars, and did all the other little things that needed to be done.

A heavy, whitish fog drifted through the bars of the great iron fence and clung to the shadows of the Gothic archways.

Down along the waterside, the clubs and casinos and bars were opening for trade, trashy games and girls smiling with bright come-on calculation at the squaddies.

Simon knew where it was only from the cluster of colony trains keeping station around it, slim silver bars agleam with reflected sunlight, forming their own tight little cluster.

Junk Buoy was modeled on a thousand waterfront resort bars that Lawrence had enjoyed in his twenties, and those had all been centuries out of date long before he even reached Earth.

A crossed targeting circle drew sharp violet bars across the ruined ceiling.