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Results for: "Base"

Translating from English to Catalan

Translations:

base — permanent structure for housing military
→ base f
→ caserna f
base — something from which other things extend
→ base f
→ fonament m
base — chemical compound that will neutralize an acid
→ base f
→ àlcali m

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (20)

1. installation from which a military force initiates operations;
- Example: "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
[syn: base, base of operations]

2. lowest support of a structure;
- Example: "it was built on a base of solid rock"
- Example: "he stood at the foot of the tower"
[syn: foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure]

3. a place that the runner must touch before scoring;
- Example: "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
[syn: base, bag]

4. the bottom or lowest part;
- Example: "the base of the mountain"

5. (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment;
- Example: "the base of the skull"

6. a lower limit;
- Example: "the government established a wage floor"
[syn: floor, base]

7. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;
- Example: "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
[syn: basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone]

8. a support or foundation;
- Example: "the base of the lamp"
[syn: base, pedestal, stand]

9. a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA);
[syn: nucleotide, base]

10. any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water;
- Example: "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"
[syn: base, alkali]

11. the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed;
- Example: "the base of the triangle"

12. the most important or necessary part of something;
- Example: "the basis of this drink is orange juice"
[syn: basis, base]

13. (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place;
- Example: "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
[syn: base, radix]

14. the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end;
[syn: base, home]

15. 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;
[syn: al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base]

16. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
- Example: "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
[syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical]

17. the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area;
- Example: "the industrial base of Japan"
[syn: infrastructure, base]

18. the principal ingredient of a mixture;
- Example: "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"
- Example: "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"
- Example: "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base"

19. a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit;
- Example: "a tub should sit on its own base"

20. (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector;


VERB (3)

1. use as a basis for; found on;
- Example: "base a claim on some observation"
[syn: establish, base, ground, found]

2. situate as a center of operations;
- Example: "we will base this project in the new lab"

3. use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes;
[syn: free-base, base]


ADJECTIVE (7)

1. serving as or forming a base;
- Example: "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
[syn: basal, base]

2. of low birth or station (`base'; is archaic in this sense);
- Example: "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"
- Example: "of humble (or lowly) birth"
[syn: base, baseborn, humble, lowly]

3. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal;
- Example: "base coins of aluminum"
- Example: "a base metal"

4. not adhering to ethical or moral principles;
- Example: "base and unpatriotic motives"
- Example: "a base, degrading way of life"
- Example: "cheating is dishonorable"
- Example: "they considered colonialism immoral"
- Example: "unethical practices in handling public funds"
[syn: base, immoral]

5. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;
- Example: "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke
- Example: "taking a mean advantage"
- Example: "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare
- Example: "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
[syn: base, mean, meanspirited]

6. illegitimate;
[syn: base, baseborn]

7. debased; not genuine;
- Example: "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"