base

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
发音 bās

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation. countable,uncountable
  2. Alternative form of BASE. alt-of,alternative
  3. The game of prisoners' bars. US,historical,uncountable
    — to run the country base
  4. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.; A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  5. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. countable,uncountable
  6. A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel. countable,uncountable
  7. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters. countable,uncountable
  8. A basic but essential component or ingredient. countable,uncountable
  9. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing. countable,uncountable
  10. Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform. countable,uncountable
  11. Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts. countable,uncountable
  12. Important areas in games and sports.; A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek. countable,uncountable
  13. Important areas in games and sports.; One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play. countable,uncountable
  14. The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement. countable,uncountable
  15. A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer. countable,uncountable
  16. The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support. countable,uncountable
  17. The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT). countable,uncountable
  18. The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat. countable,uncountable
  19. The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.) countable,uncountable
    — The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.
  20. A number raised to the power of an exponent. countable,uncountable
    — The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
  21. Synonym of radix. countable,uncountable
  22. The set of sets from which a topology is generated. countable,uncountable
  23. A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles. countable,uncountable
  24. A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element. countable,uncountable
  25. In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground. countable,uncountable
  26. A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached. countable,uncountable
  27. Dated form of bass. alt-of,countable,dated,uncountable
    — The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar.
  28. The smallest kind of cannon. countable,historical,uncountable
  29. The housing of a horse. archaic,countable,uncountable
  30. A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. countable,historical,in-plural,sometimes,uncountable
    — […] with flowers of gold, the body lined with velvet, and the bases, or skirts, with satin; also a frock of black satin, lined with sarcenet, having three welts of the same.
  31. A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt. countable,historical,in-plural,sometimes,uncountable
    — The base (skirt), as opposed to the practical skirt of the tonlet armour, is an affectation in imitation of the civilian fabric garment of the period and may well have been inspired by a similar feature on Maximilian's gift armour.
  32. The lower part of a robe or petticoat. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  33. An apron. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — bakers in their linen bases
  34. 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. countable,uncountable
    — Use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets.
  35. A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office. countable,uncountable
  36. The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life. Marxism,countable,uncountable
  37. A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder. countable,uncountable
  38. Ellipsis of base leg. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
  39. freebase cocaine slang,uncountable
    — TYLER LENNON (played by Louis Healy): Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high.
动词 v.
  1. To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. transitive
    — Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
  2. To be located (at a particular place). transitive
    — Troops have been based in Munich since the end of World War II.
  3. 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.
  4. To freebase. slang
    — 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
形容词 adj.
  1. Low in height; short. obsolete
    — The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot.
  2. Low in place or position.
    — I see thy glory like a shooting star / Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
  3. Of low value or degree. obsolete
    — If thou livest in paine and sorrow, thy base courage is the cause of it, To die there wanteth but will.
  4. Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common. archaic
    — UUhat meanes the mightie Turkiſh Emperor To talke with one ſo baſe as Tamburlaine?
  5. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
    — a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind
    Comus
  6. Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality. archaic
    — 'Like this horrible film.' 'Horrible?' Lenina was genuinely astonished. 'But I thought it was lovely.' 'It was base,' he said indignantly, 'it was ignoble.'
  7. Not considered precious or noble.
  8. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
    — base coin
  9. Of illegitimate birth; bastard. obsolete
    — Why bastard? Wherefore base?
  10. Not classical or correct.
    — base Latin
  11. Obsolete form of bass. alt-of,obsolete
    — the base tone of a violin
  12. Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
    — A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.

词形变化

bases plural bases present,singular,third-person basing participle,present based participle,past based past baser comparative more base comparative basest superlative most base superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
abase acid-base acid-base equilibrium acid-base indicator acid-base pair agawan base all your base are belong to us basal base 2 base-2 base address base angle base anhydride base bag baseball base ball base-ball baseband baseboard baseborn base box baseburner base-burner base camp base cap base case base censor base character base chief base class basecoat base coat base color base colour base communications base course base court base exchange base flashing baseflow base fluid base form base gas base hit base hospital base isolation baselayer baseless baselevel baselike baseline baseload base load basely baseman base memory basement base molding base moulding basename base note base off of base on balls base-on-balls base out base over apex base page base pair base-pair breathing base path basepath base pay baseperson baseplate base-player base-playing basepoint base point base port base radio base rate base rate fallacy base rent base right base ring baserunner base runner baserunning base-running base sequence base sheet base ship base shoot base squadron base station base station subsystem base-stealer basestealer base-stealing basestock base substitution base table basetender base tunnel base unit base upon base wallah basewide basewise basewoman baseword base year basic basically basics basification basify basilar basogenic Bronsted base Brønsted base Bronsted-Lowry base client base cloud base cocaine base codebase coinbase conjugate acid-base pair conjugate base consumer base contribution base cooking base cost base cover one's bases cranial base customer base data-base data base database deep underground military base disbase double base embase empty base exobase extra base hit fan base fifth base firebase freebase free base get to first base get to second base gigabase gnathobase gynobase helibase Hoogsteen base pair Hünig's base imbase installed base isoanabase isobase isocatabase kilobase landbase lawn base leafbase leuco-base leuco base Lewis base make first base megabase moon base multibase Navy Base nonbase off base off-base on base on-base percentage on-base plus slugging outbase panabase personal knowledge base petabase phallobase playerbase player base polybase postbase prison base prisoner's prisoners' base product base pseudobase rheobase ribobase rimbase roadbase Schiff base Scott Base seabase skull base disease snowbase soup base speaker base stanbase starbase star base stolen base subbase superbase surbase tax base terabase timebase time base times on base total base number touch base userbase user base versioned object base viewerbase wave base wheelbase wingbase base off base on rebase

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
Latin basis
Old French basebor.
Middle English base
English base
From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βάσις (básis)bor.?
Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús)bor.?
Oscanbor.?
Celticbor.?
Late Latin bassus
Old French basbor.
Middle English bas
English base
From Middle English base, bas, from Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus (“low”). Cognate with Spanish bajo, Italian basso and base.
词源 3
Probably a specific use of Etymology 1, above; perhaps also a development of the plural of bar.
词源 4
Variant forms.
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