base

• Noun

  1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
  2. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
  3. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
  4. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
  5. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
  6. A basic but essential component or ingredient.
  7. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
  8. Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
  9. Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
  10. Important areas in games and sports.
  11. Important areas in games and sports.
  12. The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
  13. A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
  14. The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
  15. The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
  16. The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
  17. The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace..)
  18. A number raised to the power of an exponent.
  19. Synonym of radix.
  20. The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
  21. A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
  22. A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
  23. In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
  24. A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
  25. Dated form of bass.
  26. The smallest kind of cannon.
  27. The housing of a horse.
  28. A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
  29. A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
  30. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
  31. (obsolete) An apron.
  32. 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.
  33. A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
  34. The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
  35. A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
  36. Short for base leg.
  37. (slang) freebase cocaine

• Verb
• Adj

basis

1. A physical base or foundation.
2. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
4. A regular frequency.
5. The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
6. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
7. Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
8. A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.