All base synonyms
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B b verb base
- locate β to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- depend β If you say that one thing depends on another, you mean that the first thing will be affected or determined by the second.
- set up β the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- stay β (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- station β a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- found β simple past tense and past participle of find.
- plant β any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- derive β If you derive something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them.
- predicate β to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- construct β to draw (a line, angle, or figure) so that certain requirements are satisfied
- prop β to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
- hinge β a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
- rest β a support for a lance; lance rest.
- ground β the act of grinding.
noun base
- foundation β the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- infrastructure β the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- basement β The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- basis β If something is done on a particular basis, it is done according to that method, system, or principle.
- bed β A BEd is a degree which usually takes four years to complete and which qualifies someone to teach in a school. BEd is an abbreviation for 'Bachelor of Education.' Compare PGCE.
- bedrock β The bedrock of something is the principles, ideas, or facts on which it is based.
- bottom β The bottom of something is the lowest or deepest part of it.
- foot β (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
- footing β the basis or foundation on which anything is established.
- groundwork β foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.
- pedestal β an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- root β Elihu [el-uh-hyoo] /ΛΙl ΙΛhyu/ (Show IPA), 1845β1937, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1912.
- seating β something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- stand β (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- substratum β something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
- substructure β a structure forming the foundation of a building or other construction.
- underpinning β a system of supports beneath a wall or the like.
- camp β A camp is a collection of huts and other buildings that is provided for a particular group of people, such as refugees, prisoners, or soldiers, as a place to live or stay.
- depot β A depot is a place where large amounts of raw materials, equipment, arms, or other supplies are kept until they are needed.
- field β Cyrus West, 1819β92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
- garrison β William Lloyd, 1805β79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
- home β Lord, Douglas-Home.
- port β located on the left side of a vessel or aircraft.
- post β power-on self-test
- settlement β the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- site β the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- terminal β situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- dock β any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- hangar β a shed or shelter.
- harbour β a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbor β a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- strip β to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- pier β a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- source β any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- origin β something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.