The noun base has 19 senses (first 10 from tagged texts)
1. (11) base, alkali -- (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. (4) base, base of operations -- (installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases")
3. (3) foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure -- (lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower")
4. (3) base, bag -- (place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag")
5. (2) base, radix -- ((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. (2) base -- (the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain")
7. (2) base -- ((anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull")
8. (2) floor, base -- (a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor")
9. (2) basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone -- (the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture")
10. (2) base, pedestal, stand -- (a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp")
11. base -- (the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle")
12. basis, base -- (the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice")
13. base, home -- (the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end)
14. al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base -- (a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries)
15. root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical -- ((linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem")
16. infrastructure, base -- (the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan")
17. base -- (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. base -- (a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base")
19. base -- ((electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector)
Overview of verb base
The verb base has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (75) establish, base, ground, found -- (use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation")
2. free-base, base -- (use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes)
3. station, post, base, send, place -- (assign to a station)
Overview of adj base
The adj base has 7 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (7) basal, base -- (serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats")
2. (1) base -- ((used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal")
3. (1) base, baseborn, humble, lowly -- (of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth")
4. base, dishonorable, dishonourable, immoral, unethical -- (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")
5. base, mean, meanspirited -- (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")
6. base, baseborn -- (illegitimate)
7. base -- (debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage")