Base vs Anchor - What's the difference?
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Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
# A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
#* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
(cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
(lb) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
Important areas in games and sports.
# A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
# (baseball) One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.
(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
(biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
(geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
(heraldiccharge) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
(mathematics) Alternative to radix.
(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
(cheerleading) A cheerleader who stays on the ground.
(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
(music)
* Dryden
(military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
The housing of a horse.
(historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
(obsolete) An apron.
* Marston
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.
To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
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To be located (at a particular place).
(obsolete) Low in height; short.
Low in place or position.
(obsolete) Of low value or degree.
* , II.3:
(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
* Francis Bacon
Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Milton
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, chapter=1 Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
Designating those metals which are not classed as (precious) or (noble).
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
* Shakespeare
Not classical or correct.
(legal) Not held by honourable service.
* Shakespeare
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.8:
(label) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
# Formerly a vessel would differentiate amongst the anchors carried as waist anchor'', ''best bower'', ''bower'', ''stream'' and ''kedge'' anchors, depending on purpose and, to a great extent, on mass and size of the anchor. Modern usage is ''storm anchor'' for the heaviest anchor with the longest rode, ''best bower'' or simply ''bower'' for the most commonly used anchor deployed from the bow, and ''stream'' or ''lunch hook for a small, light anchor used for temporary moorage and often deployed from the stern.
# (label) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
* , chapter=10
, title= (label) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
(label) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
(label) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
(label) The final runner in a relay race.
(label) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
* 2006 , Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment (issues 1650-1666, page 15)
(label) That which gives stability or security.
* Bible, (w) vi. 19
(label) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
(label) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta .
To hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point.
To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
To stop; to fix or rest.
* Shakespeare
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
To perform as an anchorman.
As an acronym base
is b'''uilding'', '''''a'''ntenna-tower'', '''''s'''pan'', '''''e arth .As a noun anchor is
(label) a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.As a verb anchor is
to hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point.base
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) base, from (etyl) basis, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
- (Ure)
- The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
- The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar.
- bakers in their linen bases
- (Lyman)
Synonyms
* (chemical compound that will neutralize an acid) alkaliAntonyms
* (chemical compound that will neutralize an acid) acid * (end of a leaf) apexDerived terms
* air base * base bag * baseball * baseband * baseboard * base box * base-burner * base camp * base censor * base coat * base color/base colour * base course * base exchange * base hospital * baseless * baselevel * baseline * basely * base load * baseman * basement * base molding/base moulding * base out * base over apex * baseperson * baseplate * base-player * base-playing * base point * base port * base radio * base rate * base ring * baserunner/base runner * base-running/baserunning * base ship * base shoot * base squadron * base station * base-stealer * base-stealing * base substitution * base table * base unit * base wallah * basewoman * counterbase * cover one's bases * database * debase * first base * freebase * home base * knowledge base * leuco-base * make first base * moonbase * off base * on base * power base * prisoner's base, prisoners' base * second base * subbase * surbase * third base * wheelbaseVerb
(bas)- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
Derived terms
* -based * base onEtymology 2
From (etyl) bas, from .Adjective
(en-adj)- base shrubs
- (Shakespeare)
- (Shakespeare)
- If thou livest in paine and sorrow, thy base courage is the cause of it, To die there wanteth but will.
- a pleasant and base swain
- a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind
- base ingratitude
citation, passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it.
- base''' coin; '''base bullion
- Why bastard? wherefore base ?
- base Latin
- (Fuller)
- the base tone of a violin
- A base''' estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called '''base''', or low, and the tenant is a '''base tenant.
Usage notes
* Said of fellows, motives, occupations, etc.Synonyms
* bad, vile, malicious, destructive, reprehensible, knavish, evilAntonyms
* likeable * desirable * admirable * nobleDerived terms
* base-born * base-bred * base coin * base estate * base fee * basely * base metal * base-minded * baseness * base-spirited * base tenant * base tenure * base-wittedEtymology 3
Probably a specific use of Etymology 1, above; perhaps also a development of the plural of (bar).Noun
(-)- to run the country base
- So ran they all, as they had bene at bace , / They being chased that did others chase.
Etymology 4
Variant forms.Acronym
(Acronym) (head)Derived terms
* base jumper * base jumpingSee also
* (wikipedia "base") *External links
* *Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----anchor
English
Alternative forms
* anchour (chiefly archaic)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor , as you might say.}}
- Supermarkets have also had to adjust. Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda have put a much greater emphasis on developing smaller high street stores or becoming anchors for mixed-used regeneration schemes
- which hope we have as an anchor of the soul
Derived terms
* anchorage * anchor baby * screw anchor * weigh anchorVerb
(en verb)- Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
- My invention anchors on Isabel.