Word Finder - base

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Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

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The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

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A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.

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The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

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A basic but essential component or ingredient.

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A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

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Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

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Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.

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Important areas in games and sports.

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The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

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A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

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The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.

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The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

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The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.

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The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.

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The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.

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A number raised to the power of an exponent.

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The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.

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The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

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A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

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A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.

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(acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

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A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

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The smallest kind of cannon.

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The housing of a horse.

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(in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

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The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

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An apron.

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A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

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A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.

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The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.

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A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.

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Short for base leg.

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To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

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To be located (at a particular place).

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(acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

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A low spectrum of sound tones.

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Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.

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A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.

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The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.

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One who sings in the bass range.

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Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.

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An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.

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The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.

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The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.

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The score had been written without the treble and bass, but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.

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A root.

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A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.

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The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.

Think we're safer at our base camp?

Despise that which is base, said his mother.

He cooked bare-chested, wearing black chinos, his dark hair clasped at the base of his neck.

She ran hard, spotting Yully and Charles fighting back-to-back at the base of the obelisk.

It had been on the nightstand, partially hidden by the base of a lamp.

She left him at the base of the stairs and ascended alone.

Dean also spoke to Cece Baldwin again, just to touch base and see if she might have heard further from her mysterious benefac­tor.

The men on the small base drew their weapons at the sight of Darian.

A military organization may be quite correctly compared to a cone, of which the base with the largest diameter consists of the rank and file; the next higher and smaller section of the cone consists of the next higher grades of the army, and so on to the apex, the point of which will represent the commander-in-chief.

Katie turned the crank at the base of the bed.

The only sound was the rush of water at the base of the canyon.

Alex didn't like highly spiced food, so she decided to bake Cornish game hens for the base of the meal.

Battles raged atop the walls, on the narrow stairways, at the base of the walls.

Through her tears the old Oak tree stood tall, the flowers at its base waving softly in the breeze.

The expression of that base and cringing smile, which Pierre knew so well in his wife, revolted him.

I dropped to the ground as he yanked the phone from its base and flung it across the room.

There was a pointed pic at the base of its handle.

She pulled her hair back in a scrunchie at the base of her neck, growing nervous once again.

The dark base of the mountainous thunderheads had a greenish tinge.

I didn't get to first base but you've got a spiffy uniform and a shiny badge.

The two pedaled together most of the afternoon, enjoying the pine-scented air, the cool breeze that hugged the base of the mountains and the yellow sunshine of a perfect spring day.

The plateau-like summit, which originally could be reached only from the south by a steep and narrow path, was rendered almost impregnable to Indian attack by a sheer cliff on the river side of the hill, a deep ravine along its eastern base and steep declivities on the other sides.

The birthplaces of these persons are still known, and to this day there are sequestered villages, nestling near the western base of the Ghats, which are pointed to as being the ancestral homes of men who two centuries ago had political control over half India.

Thus Raghoji Bhonsla established himself in the tracts lying underneath the southern base of the Satpura range (namely, Nagpur and Berar), overran Orissa and entered Bengal.

The slopes of the Armenian highlands are clothed with fine forests, and the vine is grown at their base, while on the wide-stretching steppes the Turko-Tatars pasture cattle, horses and sheep. The lower part of the Kura valley assumes the character of a dry steppe, the rainfall not reaching 54 in.

While the Martello tower owes its reputation and its widespread adoption in Great Britain to a single incident of modern warfare, the round masonry structure entered by a door raised high above the base is to be found in many lands, and is one of the earliest types of masonry fortification.

They are thus the double key of The double Comte's systematization of the philosophy of all the key of sciences from mathematics to physiology, and his positive analysis of social evolution, which is the base of philo= sociology.

Many ships have been wrecked on the jagged reefs which fringe their base.

If you'll tell me how much you use each week, I'll replace it and we'll keep that base.

It is, however, though doubtless near to the base of the Oligochaetous series, most nearly allied in the reproductive system to the Oligochaeta.

Russian aggression began somewhat early in the r8th century, when Peter the Great, establishing his base at Astrakhan on the Volga, and using the Caspian for bringing up supplies and munitions of war, captured Derbent from the Persians in 1722, and Baku in the following year.

The lower fort lies at the eastern base of the rock and measures about half a mile in diameter.

The Goyt has its source a little farther north, at the base of the same hill, and, taking a N.N.E.

In its rotunda is Jean Antoine Houdon's full-length marble statue of Washington, provided for by the Virginia General Assembly in 1784, and erected in 1796; its base bears a fine inscription written by James Madison.

The greatest height of the monument is 60 ft., and the diameter of its base is 86 ft.

In 1676, during " Bacon's Rebellion," a party of Virginians under Bacon's command killed about 150 Indians who were defending a fort on a hill a short distance east of the site of Richmond in the " Battle of Bloody Run," so called because the blood of the slain savages is said to have coloured the brook (or " run ") at the base of the hill.

Their cones are composed of thin, rounded, closely imbricated scales, each with a more or less conspicuous bract springing from the base.

The visceral hump forms a low conical dome above the subcircular foot, and standing out all round the base of this dome so as completely to overlap the head and foot, is the circular mantle-skirt.

It will be remembered that, according to Spengel, the osphradium of mollusca is definitely and intimately related to the gill-plume or ctenidium, being always placed near the base of that organ; further, Spengel has shown that the nerve-supply of this olfactory organ is always derived from the visceral loop. Accord ingly, the nerve-supply FIG.

Supposing the tube to be completely introverted and to commence its eversion, we then find that eversion may take place, either by a forward movement of the side of the tube near its attached base, as in the proboscis of the Nemertine worms, the pharynx of Chaetopods and the eye-tentacle of Gastropods, or by a forward movement of the inverted apex of the tube, as in the proboscis of the Rhabdocoel Planarians, and in that of Gastropods here under consideration.

The head is seen in front resting on the foot and carrying a median non-retractile snout or rostrum, and a pair of cephalic tentacles at the base of each of which is an eye.

The minute structure of the epithelium which clothes it, as well as the origin of the nerve which is distributed to the parabranchia, proves it to be the same organ which is found universally in molluscs at the base of each gill-plume, and tests the indrawn current of water by the sense of ?,g smell.

Marine Euthyneura, the more archaic forms of which have a relatively large foot and a small visceral hump, from the base of which projects on the right side a short mantle-skirt.

Its superficial extent is seen when the folds covering the shell are cut away and the shell removed; the external surface forms a triangle with its base bordering the pericardium, and its apex directed posteriorly and reaching to the lefthand posterior corner of the shell-chamber.

Thus the base of the gill passes in a slanting direction across the right-hand side of the kidney, the posterior end being dorsal to the apex of the gland, and the anterior end ventral to the right-hand corner.

Dorsum furnished on either side with papillae, at the base of which are ramified appendages.

The head bears a single pair of contractile but not invaginable tentacles, at the base of which are the eyes.

Jaw formed of folds imbricated externally and meeting at an acute angle near the base.

Nelson's capture of Malta (5th of September 1800) also secured for the time a sure base for British fleets in the Mediterranean.

Certainly he needed her support during that campaign; but many good judges have inclined to the belief that the whole-hearted support of Poles and Lithuanians would have been of still greater value, and that the organization of their resources might well have occupied him during the winter of 1812-1813, and would have furnished him with a new and advanced base from which to strike at the heart of Russia in the early summer of 1813.