Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - base
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a a part that supports from beneath or serves as a foundation for an object or structure. b a notional structure or entity on which something draws or depends (power base). 2 a principle or starting-point; a basis. 3 esp. Mil. a place from which an operation or activity is directed. 4 a a main or important ingredient of a mixture. b a substance, e.g. water, in combination with which pigment forms paint etc. 5 a substance used as a foundation for make-up. 6 Chem. a substance capable of combining with an acid to form a salt and water and usu. producing hydroxide ions when dissolved in water. 7 Math. a number in terms of which other numbers or logarithms are expressed (see RADIX). 8 Archit. the part of a column between the shaft and pedestal or pavement. 9 Geom. a line or surface on which a figure is regarded as standing. 10 Surveying a known line used as a geometrical base for trigonometry. 11 Electronics the middle part of a transistor separating the emitter from the collector. 12 Linguistics a root or stem as the origin of a word or a derivative. 13 Baseball etc. one of the four stations that must be reached in turn when scoring a run. 14 Bot. & Zool. the end at which an organ is attached to the trunk. 15 Heraldry the lowest part of a shield. --v.tr. 1 (usu. foll. by on, upon) found or establish (a theory based on speculation; his opinion was soundly based). 2 (foll. by at, in, etc.) station (troops were based in Malta). Phrases and idioms base hospital esp. Austral. a hospital in a rural area, or (in warfare) removed from the field of action. base pairing Biochem. complementary binding by means of hydrogen bonds of a purine to a pyrimidine base in opposite strands of nucleic acids. base rate Brit. the interest rate set by the Bank of England, used as the basis for other banks' rates. base unit a unit that is defined arbitrarily and not by combinations of other units. Etymology: F base or L basis stepping f. Gk 2. adj. 1 lacking moral worth; cowardly, despicable. 2 menial. 3 not pure; alloyed (base coin). 4 (of a metal) low in value (opp. NOBLE, PRECIOUS). Derivatives basely adv. baseness n. Etymology: ME in sense 'of small height', f. F bas f. med.L bassus short (in L as a cognomen)
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I. noun (plural ~s) see: come Date: 13th century 1. a. the lower part of a wall, pier, or column considered as a separate architectural feature, the lower part of a complete architectural design, the bottom of something considered as its support ; foundation, c. a side or face of a geometrical figure from which an altitude can be constructed, the length of a ~, that part of a bodily organ by which it is attached to another more central structure of the organism, 2. a main ingredient , a supporting or carrying ingredient (as of a medicine), 3. the fundamental part of something ; groundwork, basis, the economic factors on which in Marxist theory all legal, social, and political relations are formed, the lower part of a heraldic field, 5. the starting point or line for an action or undertaking, a ~line in surveying, a center or area of operations: as, the place from which a military force draws supplies, a place where military operations begin, a permanent military installation, d. a number (as 5 in 56.44 or 57) that is raised to a power, a number equal to the number of units in a given digit's place that for a given system of writing numbers is required to give the numeral 1 in the next higher place , a number that is multiplied by a rate or of which a percentage or fraction is calculated , root 6, 6. the starting place or goal in various games, any one of the four stations at the corners of a ~ball infield, a point to be considered , 7. any of various typically water-soluble and bitter tasting compounds that in solution have a pH greater than 7, are capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt, and are molecules or ions able to take up a proton from an acid or able to give up an unshared pair of electrons to an acid, any of the five purine or pyrimidine ~s of DNA and RNA that include cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine, and uracil, a price level at which a security previously declining in price resists further decline, the part of a transformational grammar that consists of rules and a lexicon and generates the deep structures of a...Толковый словарь английского языка
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