Noun
1. 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"2. installation from which a military force initiates operations;
"the attack wiped out our forward bases"3. lowest support of a structure;
"it was built on a base of solid rock""he stood at the foot of the tower"4. place that runner must touch before scoring;
"he scrambled to get back to the 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"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"9. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;
"the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"10. a support or foundation;
"the base of the lamp"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"13. the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
14. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
"thematic vowels are part of the stem"15. the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area;
"the industrial base of Japan"16. 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"17. a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit;
"a tub should sit on its own base"18. (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector