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词汇 base
释义 base
noun
uk /beɪs/ us /beɪs/

basenoun (BOTTOM)


B2[ C ]
the bottom part of an object, on which it rests, or the lowest part of something: 基底,底座;底层,底子
a crystal glass with a heavy base底部厚重的水晶杯
At the base of the cliff was a rocky beach.悬崖的下面是多岩石的海滩。
base forThis cream provides an excellent base for your make-up (= a good bottom layer on which other layers can be put).这种乳霜化妆打底用效果极好。
Draw a perpendicular from the vertex of the triangle to its base.从三角形的顶点画一条垂线到底边。
Firefighters played their hoses onto the base of the fire.消防队员把水龙头对准火源。
Sand carried by the wind has hollowed out the base of the cliff.风挟带的沙子将悬崖的底部掏空了。
The doctor manipulated the base of my spine and the pain disappeared completely.医生对我的脊柱底部进行了推拿,疼痛便完全消失了。
The base of the bed was made of slats.床架是用板条制成的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Surfaces of objects
-backed
bases
bed
bottom
crust
dorsiventral
flank
floor
front
lateral
mammillated
meniscus
multi-sided
nap
obverse
outside
overlay
side
substrate
ventral

basenoun (MAIN PLACE)


B2[ C ]
the main place where a person lives and works, or a place that a company does business from: 基地;总部
I spend a lot of time in Brussels, but London is still my base.我经常呆在布鲁塞尔,但伦敦仍然是我的基地。
Nice is an excellent base for (= place to stay when) exploring the French Riviera.尼斯是游览法国海滨度假胜地的理想去处。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Places involved in military activity
air bridge
air corridor
bases
Bastille
battlefield
battleground
command centre
command post
emplacement
enceinte
fort
guardroom
installation
Martello tower
multi-front
observation post
obstacle course
unmanned
war zone
watchtower

basenoun (MILITARY)


a place where there are military buildings and weapons and where members of the armed forces live: 军事基地
an old naval base
See also
military base
A team of commandoes got the hostages out from the rebel base.
They radioed their base for help.他们用无线电报向大本营求援。
The aircraft base is protected with specially designed shelters which are built to withstand ground and air attacks.空军基地有特殊设计的掩体保护,能够抵挡住地面和空中袭击。
The violence is unlikely to stop without military strikes against terrorist bases.不对恐怖分子的基地采取军事打击,暴力袭击就不可能休止。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Places involved in military activity
air bridge
air corridor
bases
Bastille
battlefield
battleground
command centre
command post
emplacement
enceinte
fort
guardroom
installation
Martello tower
multi-front
observation post
obstacle course
unmanned
war zone
watchtower

basenoun (IN BASEBALL)


[ C ]
one of the four positions on a square that a player must reach to score a point in the game of baseball(棒球运动中的)垒
 
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Baseball & rounders
1-2-3 inning
ahead
alley
around the hornidiom
at bat
bomb
curve
heater
hit the ball out of the parkidiom
hitting coach
home plate
home stand
horsehide
sac
solo
spitter
split-fingered fastball
splitter
squeeze play
stretch

basenoun (NECESSARY PART)


[ C ]
the activity or people from which someone or something gets most of their or its support, money, etc.:
A strong economy depends on a healthy manufacturing base.强大的经济依赖于健康的制造业基础。
customer baseWe're aiming to expand our customer base.我们正在致力于扩大客源。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Origins and sources
at sourcephrase
bases
be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc.idiom
beginning
birthplace
cradle
derive from something
emanate
emanate from/through something/someone
fount
fountainhead
hail
multisource
natal
origin
originate
paternity
seed
seed corn
wellspring

basenoun (MAIN PART)


C2[ Cusually singular ]
the main part of something: 主要成分
a cocktail with a whisky base用威士忌作基酒的鸡尾酒
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Important and essential things
-based
amenity
at the core of something
bare
be-all
focal point
foreground
foundation stone
fulcrum
fundament
grandaddy
heavyweight
imperative
name
need
nexus
nitty-gritty
the grandaddy of somethingidiom
the name of the gameidiom
you can't make bricks without strawidiom

basenoun (IN MATHEMATICS)


[ Cusually singular ] mathematics specialized
the number on which a counting system is built: 基数
A binary number is a number written in base 2, using the two numbers 0 and 1.二进制数是一种用0和1两个数码表示、基数为2的数。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Terms for numbers
-handed
additive inverse
aliquot
common denominator
common factor
common multiple
exponent
fortyfold
fourfold
GCF
hundredfold
real number
reciprocal
recurring
recurring number
remainder
twelvefold
twentyfold
twofold
weighting

basenoun (IN CHEMISTRY)


[ C ] chemistry specialized
a chemical that dissolves in water and combines with an acid to create a salt碱,盐基
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Chemistry: types of chemical
acid salt
aerogel
albumin
alkali metal
alkaline
alkaloid
antioxidant
carbohydrate
coolant
homologous series
inorganic
isopropanol
ketone
lectin
melamine
monosaccharide
mothball
propellant
saline
weak base
base
adjective
 literaryuk /beɪs/ us /beɪs/
not showing any honour and having no morals: 贱的;卑下的,卑鄙的
I accused him of having base motives.我谴责他动机卑鄙。
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Morally wrong and evil
abhorrent
abhorrently
amoral
amorality
anomie
dissipated
dissolute
dissolutely
dissoluteness
enormity
nefariously
nefariousness
no goodidiom
no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
non-ethical
tawdry
trespass
turpitude
unconscionable
unconscionably

Related words


basely
baseness
base
verb[ Tusually+ adv/prep ]
uk /beɪs/ us /beɪs/
B2
to have a particular town or area, etc. as the main place that you live and work in, or where you do business from: 以某处(城市或地区等)作为生活、工作、经商的主要地点;将某地设为总部
Where is your firm based?你们公司的总部在哪儿?
He was based in (= he lived in or was at a military establishment in) Birmingham during the war.战争期间他驻扎在伯明翰。
He was based in London during the war.
He's based in Paris during the week.
The company is based in Coventry.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Placing and positioning an object
-based
appose
around
change something around
circle
consign
gone
install
lie
pile (something) up
plant
redeposit
reinstall
reinstallation
relocate
reorientate
stick
superimpose
transpose
transposition

Phrasal verb


base something on something

base | American Dictionary


base
noun

basenoun (BOTTOM)


[ C ]us/beɪs/
the bottom of an object; the part on which it rests:
This lamp has a heavy base so it won’t tip over.
[ C ] geometryus/beɪs/
A base angle is one of the two equal angles that include the bottom of an isosceles triangle.

basenoun (MAIN PLACE)


[ C ]us/beɪs/
the place from which a business operates or a person works:
We have an office in San Diego, but Washington is still our base.
[ C ]us/beɪs/
A base is also a place from which the military operates that provides weapons storage and housing:
The military has bases all over the US.

basenoun (SUBSTANCE)


[ C ] biologyus/beɪs/
one of four chemical substances that make up the part of DNA and RNA that controls the structure of genes

basenoun (CHEMICAL)


[ C/U ] chemistryus/beɪs/
any of various chemical substances that have the opposite effect or chemical behavior as that of an acid

basenoun (NUMBER)


[ C ] mathematicsus/beɪs/
a number that is multiplied by itself:
In 6³, 6 is the base and it is multiplied by 6 three times.

basenoun (MAIN PART)


[ Cusually sing ]us/beɪs/
the main part of something, or the people or activities that form the main part of something:
The sauce has an olive oil base.
Tourism remains the city’s economic base.
He’ll need a wide base of regional support to win the election.

basenoun (WORD PART)


[ C ] grammarus/beɪs/
a word or word part to which prefixes and endings may be added to make new words, as in "do," the base of "redo" and "doable"

basenoun (BASEBALL)


[ C ]us/beɪs/
(in the game of baseball) one of the four angles of a square, all of which a player must touch in order to score:
He reached first base on a single.
base
verb[ Talways+ adv/prep ]
us/beɪs/
to establish a place as the place from which a business operates or a person works:
Where is your company based?

Phrasal verb


base something on something

base | Business English


base
noun[ C ]
uk /beɪs/us
the place where a company does its main business from:
The company, which has its base in California, plans to set up an office in Beijing.
all the resources or people that a company, etc. depends on in order to be successful:
a company's economic/industrial/research base
Manchester United's fans make up 17% of its shareholder base.
See also
asset base
client base
consumer base
customer base
installed base
knowledge base
manufacturing base
product base
a positive feature of a situation that makes it possible for something else to grow and develop:
base (for sth)A cut to 10p per share would give a yield of 5.8% and a new base for dividend growth.
FINANCE
an amount of money or a number that is used to compare other amounts of money or numbers to, especially as a way of measuring whether prices or numbers have increased or decreased:
The newspaper hopes to add several million dollars to its revenue base from the switchover.
See also
cost base
monetary base
tax base
base
verb[ T+ adv/prep ]
uk /beɪs/us
to have a particular country, city, etc. as the main place that you do business from:
They took the decision to base their headquarters in Germany.

Phrasal verb


base sth on sth

Examples of base


base
Another type of vector is based on oncolytic viruses.
We do this in exactly the same way as in the base case.
This is based on the following simple observation.
It is upon these data that this paper is based.
The numbers are based on 132 two-hourly speech samples from 6 children and 75 two-hourly speech samples from 15 children.
It can be appropriately chosen based on specific applications.
Both reports were based on the same original papers (1;4).
Such a suggestion is based on both theoretical [pure] and practical arguments.
The sequence was extended toward the 5 end by another 314 bases.
The path planning system is based on learning by example.
It is based on the estimation of the local density around points.
This assumption was based on the literature (1;3;7;14;20).
These conclusions are based on 95% confidence intervals.
It can only be based on making future wars impossible.
Data based on 1445 males and 1518 females.
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Collocations withbase


base

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army base
Kanpur was an emerging mill centre, an important armybase and source of army supplies since the mutiny.
base closure
In the baseclosure, the reforms raise the domestic prices of most exportable agricultural products.
base coat
To protect and strengthen nails manicurists use a basecoat.
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