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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
basement
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bargain basement (=part of a large shop below ground where the price of goods is reduced)
▪ Everything is reduced to clear in the bargain basement!
a basement apartment (=below the level of the ground)
▪ a dark basement apartment
a basement flat (=a flat that is below ground level)
▪ They lived in a basement flat in South London.
bargain basement
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
apartment
▪ Their basement apartment cost more than she could afford, but at least she felt at home in Chelsea.
▪ He gave me the address of his basement apartment.
▪ Kate's old basement apartment was gutted, painted white, covered with cork pinboard and transformed into Toby's office.
bargain
▪ Yet it isn't a stripped-out bargain basement model.
door
▪ Cardiff gingerly touched the basement door handle with his gloved hands, still watching the others.
▪ She fully expected the basement door to be bolted.
▪ All I can see is the moment when she came through the basement door.
▪ They were shrinking back from the basement door.
▪ No ... not the basement door.
flat
▪ Keith leaves his basement flat in plenty of time.
▪ They lived in a basement flat in South London then, he, his wife, and the two little girls.
▪ He stood almost on the same spot as before, and watched the lighted windows of a basement flat across the way.
▪ In an urban environment, basement flats are not advisable for the single dweller.
▪ The police report that over 40 percent of burglaries of urban dwellings are break-ins to basement flats.
▪ They arrive at the empty basement flat just after one.
▪ Miss Tan could not be charged with running a brothel because she worked alone in her basement flat.
▪ She has the basement flat and it's always got this sour damp smell even though she burns joss sticks all day long.
membrane
▪ Pinocytic vesicles were present near the plasma membrane and basement membrane was present around these cells.
▪ Angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors may act in reducing glomerular basement membrane pore size.
▪ Most significantly, an interesting similarity to the human basement membrane heparan sulphate proteoglycan core protein was detected.
room
▪ The basement room is accessed from outside.
▪ Afterward virtually the entire class adjourned to a windowless basement room in Steinman.
▪ We had our lab in a basement room of the old building.
▪ It is a relatively small basement room, so a large imposing piece was out of the question.
▪ The first light of dawn found Joe in Lucy's basement room at the mews cottage.
window
▪ He was surprised when she rapped on the basement window.
▪ We watched it from our basement window.
▪ Then she moved over to the basement window and contemplated the pairs of legs striding along the pavement to work.
■ VERB
go
▪ She took off her apron and went upstairs from the basement to suggest the extravagance to Irena.
▪ The next morning, I go downstairs to my basement.
▪ When he had fed Basil, Tom went down to the basement.
▪ They even went down to the basement bomb shelter and shook pillows.
▪ If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant, everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement.
▪ At home, in the evenings, my husband might go down to the basement to exercise.
▪ He went into a basement tavern on Commercial.
lead
▪ They were standing in a narrow hall, with a bicycle propped against one wall and stairs leading down to a basement.
▪ He took my hand and led me down the basement stairs, where the world turned on its side once again.
▪ Lord Denning stated that the position would have been different if the stairs leading to the basement had given way.
▪ It took Miguel a while before he found the stairs leading down to the basement.
live
▪ They lived in a basement flat in South London then, he, his wife, and the two little girls.
▪ He lived in the basement until the middle of January.
▪ I know that Russell lives in your basement and I am going to kill him.
move
▪ The income from private tutoring was falling and the Joyces were obliged to move to a basement flat near Brompton Cemetery.
▪ They moved through the basement, shining flashlights into faces.
▪ Then she moved over to the basement window and contemplated the pairs of legs striding along the pavement to work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Geophysicists believe the basement rock extends for tens of miles into the earth.
▪ I had met Evan in the basement near the pool table.
▪ I ran to the stairs, and down to the basement, to the empty store room.
▪ In an urban environment, basement flats are not advisable for the single dweller.
▪ S., had 6 inches of water on the floor and a basement full of water.
▪ The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed.
▪ The first light of dawn found Joe in Lucy's basement room at the mews cottage.
▪ The next morning, I go downstairs to my basement.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Basement

Basement \Base"ment\ (b[=a]sment), n. [F. soubassement. Of uncertain origin. Cf. Base, a., Bastion.] (Arch.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. (See Base, n., 3 (a) .) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
basement

"lowest story of a building except the cellar," 1730, from base (n.) + -ment.

Wiktionary
basement

n. 1 A floor of a building below ground level. 2 (lb en sports informal) Last place in a sports conference standings.

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WordNet
basement

  1. n. the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage [syn: cellar]

  2. the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture

Wikipedia
Basement

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A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. Basements are generally used as a utility space for a building where such items as the boiler, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system are located; so also are amenities such as the electrical distribution system, and cable television distribution point. However, in cities with high property prices such as London, basements are often fitted out to a high standard and used as living space.

In British English, the word "basement" is used for underground floors of, for example, department stores, but the word is only used with houses when the space below their ground floor is habitable, with windows and (usually) its own access. The word cellar or cellars is used to apply to the whole underground level or to any large underground room. A subcellar is a cellar that lies further underneath.

Basement (geology)

In geology, basement and crystalline basement are the rocks below a sedimentary platform or cover, or more generally any rock below sedimentary rocks or sedimentary basins that are metamorphic or igneous in origin. In the same way the sediments or sedimentary rocks on top of the basement can be called a "cover" or "sedimentary cover".

Basement (2010 film)

Basement is a 2010 British horror film, starring Danny Dyer and written by Ewen Glass about six friends who are lured into a basement for a sinister experiment.

Basement (disambiguation)

A basement is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor.

The term may also refer to:

Basement (band)

Basement are an English rock band formed in 2009 in Ipswich. They went on hiatus following their This Is Goodbye tour in November 2012. On 29 January 2014, the band announced in a post on their Facebook page that they would be reuniting.

Basement (2014 film)

Basement is a 2014 horror film directed by Topel Lee. The film is a joint project by Coffee House Productions and Springboard Film Productions and will be distributed by GMA Films. The film was released on February 12, 2014, serving it as the Valentine offering movie of GMA Films.

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Usage examples of "basement".

Halott was gone, the tiger returned and chuffed once more and I followed it down a set of stairs, down through a laboratory of some kind, and on down into dank basements below, with water adrip, slime on the walls, and rats running everywhere.

The following Wednesday there was a long meeting in which George outlined his conditions for staying in the Beatles: no more filming at Twickenham, no concert in Tripoli, no television show, and the songs they had rehearsed to be used in a new album to be recorded at the studio that Magic Alex was building for them in the basement of Apple.

She needed to see the basement, to examine the alembic itself and to see if there was any sign of a nitrate bomb.

The bargain basement ambience of the office lent credibility to the spiel.

The following day, Baggy went to a public meeting in the basement of a church.

Whitmore, had taken the parenting class into the Twilight Zone when he had his students adopt the eggs of a mind-controlling bezoar living under the school basement.

He was the person who had fallen down the stairs on my first visit to the basement next door, the guy I had seen in the yard talking to Bossy and had seen later limping along the street.

I told him about following Bossy into the basement of 3O5 and how I had heard him come down the stairs and berate the cat.

I went down to the basement, making sure Bossy was shut in the kitchen and could not follow me.

They hung Playboy Playmates on the wall, set up his hi-fi, with the tweed speaker covers, and his aquarium with the grow light and the bubbler, which imparted a chill, dank smell to the basement air.

The bungee jacket would go back to the art school basement that night.

With a pile of diet wafers and a snack bar balanced on a saucer in one hand, a pot of caff in the other, and a notebook under his arm, Procyon navigated the door of his basement home office, elbowed the switch, and let the robot turn the lights on.

Pinkerton studied the house, a two-story edifice with basement, and a central stairs leading to a porch and entrance.

The masked Circlers took to the stairs that led down into the basement.

The remains of Jimmy de Soto are on a sealed disc with red DATA CONTAMINANT decals somewhere in a basement at Envoy Corps HQ.