OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3564

base

/beɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
base
A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
base • sede
The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
base
Important areas in games and sports.
basamento
The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
campaña
The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross…
base
A number raised to the power of an exponent.
The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 3595

basis

/ˈbeɪ.sɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
basa • base • fundamento • fuste
A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.
basa • basarse • base • fundamentarse • fundamento
An underlying condition or circumstance.
Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated ei…
manera
A regular frequency.
The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
base
In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3565

base

/beɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
basar
To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.