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- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- treat condescendingly
- behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
- (nonstandard, rare) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to talk down to (someone); to patronize.
- To come down from a superior position and do something; to deign; (with a negative connotation) to stoop.
- To treat someone as though inferior; to talk down to someone; to patronize.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to go into detail; to particularize, to specify.
verb
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- (chiefly in the negative) To consider it appropriate or worthy to do or give (something), often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to vouchsafe.
- (intransitive) To consider it appropriate or worthy to do something, often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to think fit, to vouchsafe.
verb
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- come as if by falling
- (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
- (transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
- (chiefly poetic or religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
- (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
- Of a physical thing (such as a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
- (music) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.
- (mathematics) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.
- To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.
- (intransitive, chiefly law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
- To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive) To slope or stretch downwards.
- (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
- (intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
- (intransitive, often passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
- (biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
- (astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
- (intransitive, chiefly historical) To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.
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- Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- Powerful; fierce; strong.
- Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
- (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
- Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
- (chiefly UK) Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
- (colloquial) Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
- Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
- (colloquial) Hearty; spicy.
- Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
- marked by poverty befitting a beggar
- approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
- of no value or worth
- very good; of the highest quality
- characterized by malice
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
noun
- (now chiefly in the plural form means, also in a singular sense) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
- (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
- (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
- Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
- (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms.
- (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
- an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
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- (transitive) Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.
- (transitive) Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
- (transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
- (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
- (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
- (transitive) To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
- (Ireland, UK regional) To lament.
- (transitive) To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).
- (intransitive) To have as intentions of a given kind.
- (transitive, usually in passive) To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.
- (transitive) To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.
- destine or designate for a certain purpose
- have in mind as a purpose
- have a specified degree of importance
- have as a logical consequence
- mean or intend to express or convey
- intend to refer to
- denote or connote
adj
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
noun
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a lower limit
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- 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.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
verb
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
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- lacking civility or good manners
- (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
- socially incorrect in behavior
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
- Crudely made; primitive.
- Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
- Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
- Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
- Violent; abrupt; turbulent.
- Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
- (MLE, slang) Good, awesome.
- (MLE, slang) Sexy, hot, overtly attractive.
- Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.
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- lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- (transitive) To take away; to subtract.
- (intransitive) To taper.
- (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
- (transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
- (intransitive) To become less or smaller.
- (transitive) To make appear smaller than in reality; to dismiss as unimportant.
- (transitive) To make smaller.
adj
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- (organic chemistry) Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Relating or pertaining to an angle, or angles.
- (figuratively) Sharp and stiff in character.
- Lean, lank.
- Measured by an angle.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner.
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle
- having angles or an angular shape
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- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
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- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Hungry.
- (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
- (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- (wine) Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- needing nourishment
- holding or containing nothing
- emptied of emotion
- devoid of significance or force
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- (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
- (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- make void or empty of contents
- remove the contents of a container
- become empty or void of its content
- leave behind empty; move out of
- excrete or discharge from the body
adj
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
- Having a loss of capability or function. Having undergone deterioration, degradation.
- (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- lowered in value
- unrestrained by convention or morality
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noun
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
noun
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- An affront, injury, or insult.
- A crime or sin.
- (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.
- The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
- (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.
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- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
noun
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- An affront, injury, or insult.
- A crime or sin.
- (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.
- The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
- (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.
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- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- treat condescendingly
- behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
- (nonstandard, rare) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to talk down to (someone); to patronize.
- To come down from a superior position and do something; to deign; (with a negative connotation) to stoop.
- To treat someone as though inferior; to talk down to someone; to patronize.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to go into detail; to particularize, to specify.
verb
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- (chiefly in the negative) To consider it appropriate or worthy to do or give (something), often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to vouchsafe.
- (intransitive) To consider it appropriate or worthy to do something, often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to think fit, to vouchsafe.
verb
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- come as if by falling
- (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
- (transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
- (chiefly poetic or religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
- (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
- Of a physical thing (such as a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
- (music) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.
- (mathematics) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.
- To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.
- (intransitive, chiefly law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
- To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive) To slope or stretch downwards.
- (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
- (intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
- (intransitive, often passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
- (biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
- (astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
- (intransitive, chiefly historical) To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.
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- lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- (transitive) To take away; to subtract.
- (intransitive) To taper.
- (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
- (transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
- (intransitive) To become less or smaller.
- (transitive) To make appear smaller than in reality; to dismiss as unimportant.
- (transitive) To make smaller.
adj
- Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- Powerful; fierce; strong.
- Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
- (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
- Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
- (chiefly UK) Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
- (colloquial) Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
- Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
- (colloquial) Hearty; spicy.
- Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
- marked by poverty befitting a beggar
- approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
- of no value or worth
- very good; of the highest quality
- characterized by malice
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
noun
- (now chiefly in the plural form means, also in a singular sense) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
- (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
- (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
- Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
- (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms.
- (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
- an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
verb
- (transitive) Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.
- (transitive) Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
- (transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
- (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
- (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
- (transitive) To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
- (Ireland, UK regional) To lament.
- (transitive) To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).
- (intransitive) To have as intentions of a given kind.
- (transitive, usually in passive) To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.
- (transitive) To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.
- destine or designate for a certain purpose
- have in mind as a purpose
- have a specified degree of importance
- have as a logical consequence
- mean or intend to express or convey
- intend to refer to
- denote or connote
adj
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
noun
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a lower limit
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- 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.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
verb
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
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verb
adj
- lacking civility or good manners
- (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
- socially incorrect in behavior
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
- Crudely made; primitive.
- Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
- Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
- Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
- Violent; abrupt; turbulent.
- Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
- (MLE, slang) Good, awesome.
- (MLE, slang) Sexy, hot, overtly attractive.
- Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.
adj
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- (organic chemistry) Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Relating or pertaining to an angle, or angles.
- (figuratively) Sharp and stiff in character.
- Lean, lank.
- Measured by an angle.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner.
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle
- having angles or an angular shape
noun
adj
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
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verb
adj
- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Hungry.
- (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
- (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- (wine) Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- needing nourishment
- holding or containing nothing
- emptied of emotion
- devoid of significance or force
noun
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
- (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- make void or empty of contents
- remove the contents of a container
- become empty or void of its content
- leave behind empty; move out of
- excrete or discharge from the body
adj
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
- Having a loss of capability or function. Having undergone deterioration, degradation.
- (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- lowered in value
- unrestrained by convention or morality