base
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Is base a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.countableuncountable
2. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.countableuncountable
3. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.countableuncountable
4. Important areas in games and sports.countableuncountable
5. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.countableuncountable
6. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.Examples: "Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants."Synonyms: groundtransitive
2. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).Examples: "Take a look at that. This is where we are going to be basing this season."transitive
3. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.Examples: "Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows."
4. (slang) To freebase.Examples: "You know he started to base at a hell of a pace / And now it's a disgrace, he's got the pipe in his face"slang
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Low in height; short.Examples: "The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot."Synonyms: little, petite, shortobsolete
2. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.Examples: "If thou livest in paine and sorrow, thy base courage is the cause of it, To die there wanteth but will."obsolete
3. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.Examples: "UUhat meanes the mightie Turkiſh Emperor To talke with one ſo baſe as Tamburlaine?"; "Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custome, and permit / The curiosity of Nations, to deprive me? For that I am some twelve, or fourteen Moonshines / Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? Wherefore base? / When my Dimensions are as well compact, My minde as generous, and my shape as true / As honest madams issue? Why brand they us / With Base? With basenes Bastardie? Base, Base?"; "a peasant and base swain"archaic
4. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.Examples: "'Like this horrible film.' 'Horrible?' Lenina was genuinely astonished. 'But I thought it was lovely.' 'It was base,' he said indignantly, 'it was ignoble.'"Synonyms: low-qualityarchaic
5. (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
6. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.Examples: "Why bastard? Wherefore base?"Synonyms: illegitimateobsolete
noun (English)
1. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.Examples: "to run the country base"; "So ran they all, as they had bene at bace, / They being chased that did others chase."UShistoricaluncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary