| VERB | cognition | base, establish, ground, found | use as a basis for |
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| stative | base | situate as a center of operations | |
| consumption | base, free-base | use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes | |
| NOUN | artifact | base, base of operations | installation from which a military force initiates operations |
| artifact | base, foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure | lowest support of a structure | |
| artifact | base, bag | a place that the runner must touch before scoring | |
| object | base | the bottom or lowest part | |
| location | base | (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment | |
| communication | base, floor | a lower limit | |
| cognition | base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone | the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated / calculated or explained | |
| artifact | base, pedestal, stand | a support or foundation | |
| substance | base, nucleotide | a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside | |
| substance | base, alkali | any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water | |
| shape | base | the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed | |
| relation | base, basis | the most important or necessary part of something | |
| quantity | base, radix | (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place | |
| location | base, home | the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | |
| group | Base, al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, al Qaeda, al Qaida | a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support / support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups | |
| communication | base, root, root word, stem, theme, radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | |
| artifact | base, infrastructure | the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | |
| artifact | base | the principal ingredient of a mixture | |
| artifact | base | a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit | |
| artifact | base | (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector | |
| ADJECTIVE | all | base, basal | of primary importance |
| all | base, baseborn, humble, lowly | of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense) | |
| all | base | (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | |
| all | base, immoral | not adhering to ethical or moral principles | |
| all | base, mean, meanspirited | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | |
| all | base, baseborn | illegitimate | |
| all | base | debased |
| Sounds | bey's | |
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| Rhymes | ace / ACE ... workplace: 67 rhymes with eys... | |
| Meaning | Of primary importance. | |
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| Synonym | basal | |
| Broader | basic | pertaining to or constituting / constituting a base or basis |
| Spanish | basal, fundamental | |
| Meaning | Of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense). | |
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| Example | "baseborn wretches with dirty faces" | |
| Synonyms | baseborn, humble, lowly | |
| Broader | lowborn | Of humble birth or origins |
| Spanish | bajo | |
| Meaning | (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal. | |
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| Broader | inferior | Of low or inferior quality |
| Spanish | base | |
| Meaning | not adhering to ethical or moral principles. | |
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| Synonym | immoral | |
| Broader | wrong | contrary to conscience or morality or law |
| Spanish | deshonroso, inmoral | |
| Nouns | baseness | unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values |
| Meaning | Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality. | |
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| Example | "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke | |
| Synonyms | mean, meanspirited | |
| Broader | ignoble | Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose |
| Spanish | desdeñable, despreciable, infame, innoble, miserable, ruin, vil | |
| Catalan | desdenyable, despreciable, innoble, menyspreable, miserable, vil | |
| Nouns | baseness | unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values |
| Adverbs | basely | in a despicable, ignoble manner |
| Meaning | illegitimate. | |
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| Synonym | baseborn | |
| Broader | illegitimate | Of marriages and offspring |
| Usage of | archaism, archaicism | The use of an archaic expression |
| Spanish | infame, vil | |
| Meaning | debased; not genuine. | |
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| Example | "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage" | |
| Broader | counterfeit, imitative | not genuine |
| Meaning | installation from which a military force initiates operations. | |
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| Example | "the attack wiped out our forward bases" | |
| Synonym | base of operations | |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine | The military forces of a nation |
| Narrower | air base, air station | A base for military aircraft |
| army base | A large base of operations for an army | |
| firebase | An artillery base to support advancing troops | |
| navy base | base of operations for a naval fleet | |
| rocket base | A military base for rocket missiles | |
| Broader | military installation | Any facility servicing military forces |
| Spanish | base de operaciones, base | |
| Catalan | base d'operacions, base | |
| Meaning | Lowest support of a structure. | |
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| Example | "it was built on a base of solid rock" | |
| Synonyms | foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure | |
| Part of | structure, construction | A thing constructed |
| Narrower | bed | A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track |
| raft foundation, raft, mat | A foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete | |
| Broader | support | supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation |
| Spanish | base, cimentación, cimiento, fundación, fundamento, pie | |
| Catalan | base, fonament, peu | |
| Adjectives | basal | of primary importance |
| Meaning | A place that the runner must touch before scoring. | |
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| Synonym | bag | |
| Part of | baseball diamond, diamond, infield | The area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate |
| Narrower | first base | The base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball |
| home plate, home base, home, plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber / rubber slab where the batter stands | |
| second base | The base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball | |
| third base, third | The base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball | |
| Broader | baseball equipment | equipment used in playing baseball |
| Spanish | base | |
| Catalan | base | |
| Meaning | The bottom or lowest part. | |
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| Example | "the base of the mountain" | |
| Broader | part, piece | A portion of a natural object |
| Adjectives | basilar | of or relating to or located at the base |
| Meaning | (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment. | |
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| Example | "the base of the skull" | |
| Category | anatomy, general anatomy | The branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals |
| Broader | bottom | The lowest part of anything |
| Adjectives | basal | especially of leaves |
| basilar, basilary | of or relating to or located at the base | |
| Meaning | A lower limit. | |
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| Synonym | floor | |
| Narrower | price floor | Floor below which prices are not allowed to fall |
| wage floor | Floor below which wages are not allowed to fall | |
| Broader | control | The economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. |
| Spanish | base, mínimo | |
| Meaning | The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated / calculated or explained. | |
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| Synonyms | basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone | |
| Part of | explanation | Thought that makes something comprehensible |
| Narrower | meat and potatoes | The fundamental part |
| Broader | assumption, supposition, supposal | A hypothesis that is taken for granted |
| Spanish | base, fundamento | |
| Catalan | base, fonament | |
| Adjectives | basal | of primary importance |
| Verbs | base | use as a basis for |
| Meaning | A support or foundation. | |
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| Example | "the base of the lamp" | |
| Synonyms | pedestal, stand | |
| Narrower | brass monkey | A metal stand that formerly held cannon balls on sailing ships |
| staddle | A base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked | |
| trivet | A stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table | |
| trivet | A three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth | |
| Broader | support | Any device that bears the weight of another thing |
| Spanish | base, fundamento, peana, pedestal, pie, soporte, stand | |
| Catalan | base, fonament, pedestal, peu, suport | |
| Meaning | A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA). | |
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| Synonym | nucleotide | |
| Narrower | adenosine diphosphate, ADP | An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage |
| adenosine monophosphate, AMP, adenylic acid | A nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism | |
| adenosine triphosphate, ATP | A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue | |
| base pair | One of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands | |
| deoxyadenosine monophosphate, A | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA | |
| deoxycytidine monophosphate, C | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA | |
| deoxyguanosine monophosphate, G | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA | |
| deoxythymidine monophosphate, T | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA | |
| muton | The smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur | |
| oligonucleotide, oligo | (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides | |
| polynucleotide | (biochemistry) a linear polymer whose molecule is composed of many nucleotide units constituting a section of a nucleic acid molecule | |
| uracil, U | A base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine | |
| Broader | ester | formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water |
| Spanish | nucleótido | |
| Catalan | nucleòtid | |
| Meaning | Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water. | |
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| Example | "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia" | |
| Synonym | alkali | |
| Narrower | imidazole, iminazole, glyoxaline | An organic base C3H4N2 |
| melamine, cyanuramide | A white crystalline organic base | |
| purine | A colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen | |
| purine | Any of several bases that are derivatives of purine | |
| pyridine | A toxic colorless flammable liquid organic base with a disagreeable odor | |
| pyrimidine | Any of several basic compounds derived from pyrimidine | |
| Broader | compound, chemical compound | (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight |
| Spanish | alcali, álcali, base | |
| Catalan | àlcali, base | |
| Verbs | base | use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes |
| basify | turn basic and less acidic | |
| Meaning | The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed. | |
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| Example | "the base of the triangle" | |
| Broader | flank | A subfigure consisting of a side of something |
| Spanish | base | |
| Catalan | base | |
| Meaning | The most important or necessary part of something. | |
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| Synonym | basis | |
| Broader | part, portion, component part, component, constituent | Something determined in relation to something that includes it |
| Spanish | base | |
| Meaning | (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place. | |
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| Synonym | radix | |
| Category | numeration system, number system, number representation system, system of numeration | Any notation for the representation of numbers |
| Broader | number | A concept of quantity involving zero and units |
| Spanish | base | |
| Catalan | base | |
| Meaning | The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end. | |
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| Synonym | home | |
| Broader | location | A point or extent in space |
| Catalan | base | |
| Meaning | A terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support / support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries. | |
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| Synonyms | al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, al Qaeda, al Qaida | |
| Category | terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act | The calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature |
| Instance of | terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO | A political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
| Region | Afghanistan, Islamic State of Afghanistan | A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia |
| Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, West Pakistan | A Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley | |
| Spanish | Al Qaida | |
| Catalan | al-Qaida, Al Qaida | |
| Meaning | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. | |
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| Synonyms | root, root word, stem, theme, radical | |
| Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Broader | form, word form, signifier, descriptor | The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something |
| Spanish | base, radical, raíz, tema | |
| Catalan | arrel, base, radical, tema | |
| Meaning | The principal ingredient of a mixture. | |
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| Broader | ingredient | A component of a mixture or compound |
| Spanish | base | |
| Verbs | base | use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes |
| Meaning | A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit. | |
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| Example | "a tub should sit on its own base" | |
| Part of | box | A (usually rectangular) container |
| lamp | A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs | |
| vessel | An object used as a container (especially for liquids / liquids) | |
| Broader | bottom, underside, undersurface | The lower side of anything |
| Spanish | base | |
| Catalan | base | |
| Meaning | (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector. | |
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| Category | electronics | The branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices |
| Part of | transistor, junction transistor, electronic transistor | A semiconductor device capable of amplification |
| Broader | electrode | A conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit |
| Spanish | base | |
| Catalan | base | |
| Meaning | Use as a basis for; found on. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Example | "base a claim on some observation" | |
| Synonyms | establish, ground, found | |
| Narrower | build | found or ground |
| Spanish | basar, establecer, fundamentar, fundar, implantar, instaurar, instituir, sustentar | |
| Catalan | basar, establir, fonamentar, fundar, implantar, instaurar, instituir, sustentar | |
| Nouns | base | the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated / calculated or explained |
| Meaning | Situate as a center of operations. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "we will base this project in the new lab" | |
| Broader | situate, locate | Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey |
| Meaning | Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | free-base | |
| Broader | drug, do drugs | Use recreational drugs |
| Nouns | base | the principal ingredient of a mixture |
| base | any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water | |
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