Usually means: Foundation or starting point structurally.
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We found 111 dictionaries that define the word base:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. base: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. base, base: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. base, base: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. base: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Base, base: Vocabulary.com
  6. Base, base: Wordnik
  7. base: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Base: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. BASE, Base, base: Wiktionary
  10. base: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. base: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. base: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. base: Dictionary.com
  14. base (adj.), base (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. base: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. BASE (search engine), Base (EP), Base (architecture), Base (baseball), Base (chemistry), Base (comics), Base (company), Base (disambiguation), Base (exponentiation), Base (genetics), Base (geometry), Base (group theory), Base (math), Base (mathematics), Base (mobile telephony provider), Base (politics), Base (social class), Base (topology), Base, The Base (film), The Base (hate group), The Base (shopping centre), The Base: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Base: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. base: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. base: Rhymezone
  20. Base (f), base, base, base, base (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. base: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. BASE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. B.A.S.E, BASE, base: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Base: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. base: Free Dictionary
  26. base: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  27. base: Mnemonic Dictionary
  28. Base, base: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  29. base: Dictionary/thesaurus
  30. base: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  31. BASE: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. base: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. base: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  3. Base: Health & Beauty Glossary
  4. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  5. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  6. Base: Miniature Wargaming Glossary
  7. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  8. base: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  9. mosaic glossary (No longer online)
  10. Base: Lexicon of Linguistics
  11. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Base: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Base: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  6. Base, Base: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Base (architecture), base: Legal dictionary
  9. Base: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. base: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. base: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Base (architecture), Base (math), base: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. base: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  4. Base (architecture), Base (chemistry), Base (math), base: Medical dictionary
  5. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. BASE: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. base: Idioms

Science (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  4. Base: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  5. Base: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  6. Base: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  7. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  8. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Base: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  10. base: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  11. Bryological (No longer online)
  12. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  13. base: Evolution Glossary
  14. base, base, base, base, base, base, base, base, base, base: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  15. base, base: Prime
  16. BASE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  17. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  18. base: UNCChem Glossary
  19. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. base, base, base, base: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Base: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. B.A.S.E, the base: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Base: Skydiving Glossary
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  5. Base: Sports Definitions

Tech (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. base: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. base: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  5. Base: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  6. base: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  7. Base: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  8. Base: Beauty & Health Glossary
  9. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  11. Base: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  12. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  13. base: Television: Critical Methods and Applications
  14. BASE: Power Engineering
  15. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
noun:  A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
noun:  The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
noun:  A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
noun:  The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
noun:  (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
noun:  A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
noun:  (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
noun:  (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
noun:  Important areas in games and sports.
noun:  A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
noun:  (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
noun:  (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
noun:  (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
noun:  (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
noun:  (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
noun:  (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
noun:  (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace..)
noun:  (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
noun:  (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
noun:  (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
noun:  (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
noun:  (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
noun:  (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
noun:  (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
noun:  (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
noun:  (archaic) The housing of a horse.
noun:  (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
noun:  (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
noun:  (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
noun:  (obsolete) An apron.
noun:  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.
noun:  (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
noun:  (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
noun:  A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
verb:  (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
verb:  (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
verb:  (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
verb:  (slang) To freebase.
adjective:  (obsolete) Low in height; short.
adjective:  Low in place or position.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
adjective:  (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
adjective:  Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
adjective:  (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
adjective:  (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
adjective:  Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
adjective:  Not classical or correct.
adjective:  (law) Not held by honourable service.
noun:  (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  (music) Dated form of bass. [A low spectrum of sound tones.]
noun:  (aviation) Short for base leg. [(aviation) The part of a landing before final approach, flown downwind of and at right angles to the runway.]
adjective:  Obsolete form of bass. [Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.]
noun:  Alternative form of BASE
noun:  Acronym of building, antenna-tower, span, earth. [(uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.]

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