Commentary: floor - a lower limit
Examples:
The government established a wage base.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 8
Commentary: bottom - the lowest part of a physical thing
Examples:
The base of the mountain was only 1 mile ahead.
The base of the skull was fractured in the car accident.
The base of the triangle is measured to calculate the area.
A tub should sit on it's own base.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 6 7 11 18
Commentary: fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure - lowest support of a structure or fundamental argument
Examples:
It was build on a base of solid rock.
The whole argument rested of a base of conjecture.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 3 9 10
Commentary: the principle ingredient of a mixture
Examples:
Glycerineated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments.
He told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green.
Everything she cooked seemed to have rice as a base.
The base of this drink is orange juice.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 12 17
Commentary: any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
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Bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: the place that a runner must touch before scoring
Examples:
He scrambled to get back to base.
George slid into home base.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 4
Commentary: base of operations
Examples:
The attack wiped out our forward bases.
Report back to base immediately.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 2 13
Commentary: the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
Examples:
That area's industrial base is broadly diversified, they produce everything from paper to dog food to train engines.
The industrial base of the U.S. is said to rely heavily on tobacco.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 16
Commentary: the form of a word after all affixes are removed
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Thematic vowels are part of the root.
The root of the word "linguistics" is "ling".
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 15
Commentary: the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
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10 is the base of the decimal system.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 5
Commentary: the part of a transistor that separates the emitter form the collector
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The current through the transistor base should be zero, now.
The base of the transistor is found between the emitter and the collector.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 19
Commentary: Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Quada, Base - an intensely anti-western terrorist network that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
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Base is allegedly responsible for the attack.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 14
Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
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