10 example sentences using base.
Base used in a sentence
Base in a sentence as a noun
" I had done a lot to develop my talents and knowledge base, and in a range of areas to boot.
On consoles that, because they are new, will have a limited user base anyway.
"Honest question, do you have anything to base this idea that of "many many more times the resources" on?
But for the most part they just have a bunch of crappy tools that read and write state machine information into relational databases.
Base in a sentence as a verb
This is another great example of why you can't take successful people and distil them down to their base components and say "ah, this is what made him great!
What's deadly for a local library is for nobody from the community to be using it, for it to have no stakeholders from the tax base of the community.
Politicians need to understand that if they take on the internet and choose record labels over their own constituents they cannot expect support from their own political base.
But other large regional ISPs pretty quickly learned not to set fire to their customer base, and, by the end, I think our customer service was pretty much at par for the whole area; we were no longer truly different based on support.
Base in a sentence as an adjective
If I am a broker who depends for his livelihood in serving a customer base that it took years to develop, I would be rightly upset if someone came in and simply handed all my customer information over to my competitors.
It should be used in conjunction with a multi-faceted interviewing approach that involves testing fundamentals, the ability to construct a relatively simple algorithm, the issues of working on a team and on a production code base and systems design.- the problem with simply talking about "real world" code, as the author suggests, is you're no longer finding a good engineer, you're finding someone you like, someone who thinks like you.
Base definitions
installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
See also: foundation fundament foot groundwork substructure understructure
a place that the runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain"
(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"
a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor"
See also: floor
the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
See also: basis foundation fundament groundwork cornerstone
a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
See also: nucleotide
any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"
See also: alkali
the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle"
the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice"
See also: basis
(numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
See also: radix
the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
See also: home
a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan"
See also: infrastructure
the principal ingredient of a mixture; "glycerinated 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 the base"
a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base"
(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"
situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab"
use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
See also: free-base
serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
See also: basal
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
(used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds"
See also: immoral
having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
See also: mean meanspirited
illegitimate
See also: baseborn
debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"