basal
— Adjective
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～ serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
basal
— Adjective
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～ especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem; "basal placentation"; "radical leaves"
basal
— Adjective
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～ of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing"; "a basal reader"
basalt
— Noun
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～ the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene
basaltic
— Adjective
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～ of or relating to or containing basalt; "basaltic magma is fluid"
bascule
— Noun
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～ a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)
base
— Verb
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～ situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab"
base
— Verb
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～ use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
base
— Verb
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～ use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"
base
— Adjective
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～ (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
base
— Adjective
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～ of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
base
— Adjective
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～ serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
base
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～ having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
base
— Adjective
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～ debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
base
— Adjective
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～ not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds"
air base
— Noun
– English
～ a base for military aircraft