Base vs Place - What's the difference?
base | place | Synonyms |
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) An area; somewhere within an area.
# A location or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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, title= #* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# An open space, courtyard, market square.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# A group of houses.
# A region of a land.
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, title= # Somewhere for a person to sit.
# (label) A house or home.
A frame of mind.
(label) A position, a responsibility.
# A role or purpose; a station.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= # The position of a contestant in a competition.
# The position as a member of a sports team.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
* Mather Byles
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
* Bible, (w) viii. 37
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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, title= To earn a given spot in a competition.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
(in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
Base is a synonym of place.
As an acronym base
is b'''uilding'', '''''a'''ntenna-tower'', '''''s'''pan'', '''''e arth .As a verb place is
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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 ----place
English
(wikipedia place)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Here is the place appointed.
- What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
George Goodchild
- Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- Men in great place are thrice servants.
- I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
- In the first place', I do not understand politics; in the second '''place''', you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third ' place , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion
- My word hath no place in you.
Synonyms
* courtyard, piazza, plaza, square * (location) location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot * (somewhere to sit) seat * (frame of mind) frame of mind, mindset, moodDerived terms
* abiding place * all dressed up and no place to go * all over the place * come from a good place * decimal place * dwelling place * hiding place * in the first place * meeting place * out of place * passing place * place card * place-kick * place mat * place name * place of articulation * place of decimals * place of worship * resting place * sticking-place * the other place * give place * take place * workplaceVerb
(plac)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}