base

Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

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

A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.

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

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

Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

To be located (at a particular place).

Take a look at that. This is where we are going to be basing this season.

To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

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.

To freebase.

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

Low in height; short.

The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot.

Low in place or position.

I see thy glory like a shooting star / Fall to the base earth from the firmament.

Of low value or degree.

If thou livest in paine and sorrow, thy base courage is the cause of it, To die there wanteth but will.

Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.

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?

Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.

a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind

base ingratitude