n. a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base"

n. (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

n. (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"

n. the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain"

n. the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle"

n. the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan"

n. place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag"

n. installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"

n. (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system"

n. any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"

n. a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"

n. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

v. use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

v. use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"

v. assign to a station

adv. "Go ahead"

adj. in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position"

adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

adj. stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer

adj. illegitimate

adj. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

adj. 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"

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

n. the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"

n. the basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections"

n. a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; "he started looking for a gas station"; "the train pulled into the station"

n. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

n. a fortified military post where troops are stationed

n. the basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections"

n. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

n. the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"

n. the basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections"

n. (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system"

v. put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"

v. live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

v. inhabit a nest, usually after building; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring"

v. be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?"

v. send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit; "forward my mail"

v. hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"

v. determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property"

v. put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden"

v. put a telephone receiver back in its cradle

v. provide housing for (military personnel)

v. provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"

v. set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink"

v. make an investment; "Put money into bonds"

v. take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"

v. attach to; "affix the seal here"

v. build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation"

v. give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

v. put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

v. put into commission; equip for service; of ships

v. enter into a contractual arrangement

v. hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support"

v. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

v. provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks"

v. fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"

v. put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text"

v. sow by scattering; "scatter seeds"

v. bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"

v. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"

adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

adj. 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"

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"

adj. revoltingly ugly: "a hideous scar"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"; "a monstrous urban wilderness"

adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

adj. displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"

adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

adj. unpleasant to look at; "unsightly billboards"

adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

adj. (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene; "impure thoughts"

adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

adj. being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions"

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

adj. deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

adj. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry"

adj. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"

adj. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

adj. marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

adj. treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"

adj. illegitimate

adj. unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

adj. marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

adj. despicably mean and cowardly

adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

adj. treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

adj. having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"

adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

adj. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

adj. lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"

adj. not important or noteworthy

adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

adj. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"

adj. 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"

adv. "He faced forward"

adv. "from that time forth"

adv. "He is way ahead"

adv. toward the outside; "move the needle further outward!"

adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill

adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"

adj. of inferior quality

adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"

adj. of lesser quality than second-rate

adj. used of beef; usable but inferior

adj. stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer

adj. conceived in adultery

adj. not having a known or legally responsible father

adj. (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"

adj. having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to the throne"

adj. of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"

adj. not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"

adj. having the nature of vice

adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"

adj. insusceptible of reform; "vicious irreclaimable boys"; "irredeemable sinners"

adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"

adj. liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott

adj. morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men"

adj. not befitting a gentleman

adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

v. cause to change ownership; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children"

adj. not in operation or operational; "the oven is off"; "the lights are off"

adj. of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; "of noble birth"

adj. morally excellent

adv. "Lean back"