base
installation from which a military force initiates operations
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,334 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,419 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- installation from which a military force initiates operations also: base of operations the attack wiped out our forward bases
- lowest support of a structure also: foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure it was built on a base of solid rockhe stood at the foot of the tower
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring also: bag he scrambled to get back to the bag
- the bottom or lowest part the base of the mountain
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment the base of the skull
- a lower limit also: floor the government established a wage floor
base in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Farewell base stooping to the lordly peers!
Edward the Second · Christopher Marlowe · Chapter 1
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He had nothing upon which to base his conjectures.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Rises slowly, solemnly, to full height; in deep base tones, asks permission to make personal statement.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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It suddenly occurred to me how I could divert his mind until I could fall back upon my military base.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1
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No thrill transmitted stirred the lock Of jack-straw needle-ice at base; Towers undermined by waves—the block Atilt impending—kept their place.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1