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Basis \Ba"sis\ (b[=a]"s[i^]s), n.; pl. Bases (b[=a]"s[=e]z).

  1. The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
    --Dryden.

  2. The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue. [Obs.]

    If no basis bear my rising name.
    --Pope.

  3. The groundwork; the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.

    The basis of public credit is good faith.
    --A. Hamilton.

  4. The principal component part of a thing.

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Etymology 1 n. (plural of base English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: base) Etymology 2

n. (plural of basis English)

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base
  1. adj. serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" [syn: basal]

  2. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

  3. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" [syn: baseborn, humble, lowly]

  4. not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds" [syn: dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical]

  5. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" [syn: mean, meanspirited]

  6. illegitimate [syn: baseborn]

  7. debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

  8. [also: bases (pl)]

base
  1. n. any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia" [syn: alkali]

  2. installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" [syn: base of operations]

  3. lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn: foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure]

  4. place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" [syn: bag]

  5. (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system" [syn: radix]

  6. the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain"

  7. (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"

  8. a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor" [syn: floor]

  9. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone]

  10. a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp" [syn: pedestal, stand]

  11. the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle"

  12. the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice" [syn: basis]

  13. the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: home]

  14. an intensely anti-western terrorist network that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist group; has cells in more than 50 countries [syn: al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida]

  15. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, stem, theme, radical]

  16. the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" [syn: infrastructure]

  17. the principal ingredient of a mixture; "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"; "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"; "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base"

  18. a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base"

  19. (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

  20. [also: bases (pl)]

base
  1. v. use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation" [syn: establish, ground, found]

  2. use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes [syn: free-base]

  3. assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place]

  4. [also: bases (pl)]

Wikipedia
Bases

Bases may refer to:

  • Bases (fashion), a military style of dress adopted by the chivalry of the sixteenth century
  • Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES)
Bases (fashion)

Bases are the cloth military skirts (often part of a doublet or a jerkin), generally richly embroidered, worn over the armour of later men-at-arms such as French gendarmes in the late 15th to early 16th century, as well as the plate armour skirt later developed in imitation of cloth bases for supplemental upper-leg protection, worn by men-at-arms for foot combat.

Usage examples of "bases".

From the curving inwards of the two lobes, as they move towards each other, the straight marginal spikes intercross by their tips at first, and ultimately by their bases.

These filaments, from their tips to their bases, are exquisitely sensitive to a momentary touch.

After a short time the glands, thus indirectly excited, transmit or reflect some influence down their own pedicels, inducing aggregation in cell beneath cell to their bases.

Their bases are broader, and besides their own vessels, they receive a fine branch from those which enter the tentacles on each side.

The stimulus proceeding from the glands of the disc acts on the bending part of the [page 20] exterior tentacles, near their bases, and does not (as will hereafter be proved) first travel up the pedicels to the glands, to be then reflected back to the bending place.

The process of redissolution travels upwards from the bases of the tentacles to the glands, and therefore in a reversed direction to that of aggregation.

The process of redissolution in all cases commences at the bases of the tentacles, and proceeds up them towards the glands.

Some force or influence must, therefore, be transmitted from the central glands to the exterior tentacles, first to near their bases causing this part to bend, and next to the glands causing them to secrete more copiously.

The process of redissolution commences at the bases of the tentacles, thence proceeding upwards to the glands.

Hence the only safe criterion, and to this alone I have trusted, is the bending inwards of the exterior tentacles, which have not been touched by the fluid, or at most only at their bases.

The protoplasm in the closely inflected tentacles was not in the least aggregated, but towards their bases it was collected in little brownish masses at the bottoms of the cells.

Yet curare caused very little aggregation in the cells of the tentacles, whereas nicotine and sulphate of quinine induced strongly marked aggregation down their bases.

When a gland is directly stimulated in any way, as by the pressure of a minute particle of glass, the protoplasm within the cells of the gland first becomes aggregated, then that in the cells immediately beneath the gland, and so lower and lower down the tentacles to their bases.

The protoplasm within the cells immediately beneath the glands are next affected, and so downwards from cell to cell to the bases of the tentacles.

Near the bases of the short central tentacles, the flattened or broad face is formed of about five longitudinal rows of cells.