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Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
* Whewell
Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
Significant.
* Evelyn
* John Locke
(senseid)Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128
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, title= (senseid)Text written for a specific purpose.
(senseid)A sample or specimens for study.
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(senseid)Cloth to be made into a garment.
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(senseid)A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
(senseid)Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The substance that something is made or composed of.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (obsolete) To form from matter; to materialize.
* Sir Thomas Browne
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:
Material is a related term of base.
As a noun material
is material (matter which may be shaped or manipulated).As an acronym base is
b'''uilding'', '''''a'''ntenna-tower'', '''''s'''pan'', '''''e arth .material
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
- the material elements of the universe
- Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
- You've made several material contributions to this project.
- This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
- discourse, which was always material , never trifling
- I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
Antonyms
* (wordly) spiritual * (significant) immaterialDerived terms
* material breach * material cause * material girl * material worldNoun
(wikipedia material) (en noun)Gemstones, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
- With fresh material', taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the '''material''' examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium ' material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
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Stents to Prevent Stroke, passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* materialism * materialist * material culture * material science * materials science * postmaterialism * postmaterialist * raw materialSee also
* materielVerb
(materiall)- I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.
Anagrams
* ----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.
