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Substantiivi

1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
2. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
3. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
4. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
5. A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
6. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
7. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
8. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
9. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
10. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
11. Important areas in games and sports.
12. A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
13. (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
14. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
15. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
16. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
17. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
18. (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
19. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
20. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
21. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
22. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
23. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
24. (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
25. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
26. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
27. (music) Dated form of bass.
28. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
29. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
30. (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.
31. (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
32. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
33. (obsolete) An apron.
34. 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.
35. (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
36. (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
37. A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
38. (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
39. (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine

Adjektiivi

1. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
2. Low in place or position.
3. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
4. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
5. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
6. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
7. (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
8. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
9. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
10. Not classical or correct.
11. (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
2. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
3. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
4. (slang) To freebase.