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freebase

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for freebase.

Editorial note

Google acquired Freebase a little while before then, and there were only one or two updates to WEX.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhaling the fumes produced.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of freebase gathered in one view.

verb

To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhaling the fumes produced.

verb

To purify a drug by crystallization.

noun

(specifically) The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for freebase.

verb

To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhaling the fumes produced.

verb

To purify a drug by crystallization.

noun

(specifically) The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine.

noun

(chemistry) The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution.

Example sentences

1

Google acquired Freebase a little while before then, and there were only one or two updates to WEX.

2

Don't know if they've ported everything over from Freebase yet, will have to check up on that.

3

A Freebase dump won't age well, in a lot of cases up-to-date facts from the real world are required.

4

There's been a lot of code written against Freebase APIs (me included) but it isn't sad it's going away.

5

If not, would one of these companies be so kind and boot-strap/support an open Freebase rescue project?

6

Looks like it's a Freebase bug escaping the title properly, though, not on your end.

7

IBM relied on Freebase for Watson, so they acquired Blekko last month, a real web search engine & knowledge base startup.

8

Maybe some community project can rescue the Freebase community project before it is too late?

9

I totally agree, I believe many people vastly underestimate the usefulness of Freebase as a open source ontology.

10

Yes you can use dapper to scrape it and freebase to store it, but what's missing is a process to assure data quality.

11

Google acquired the best-in-class open data graph FreeBase and later killed it.

12

I was lucky enough to download what I think was the last WEX data dump before they killed the download.freebase.com[3] subdomain.

Quote examples

1

(ex "Who is the current president of the USA?" "Bill Clinton") Maybe some community project like Archive.org, Apache Foundation, Wikipedia.org, Mozilla can rescue the Freebase community project before it is too late?

Proper noun examples

1

Freebase is a database of things Blekko is a company that classifies things Watson interprets the relationships between classifications.

2

Freebase is basically the machine readable form of Wikipedia plus a lot of other data sources.

3

Apple needs a up-to-date knowledge base too, currently they rely on WolframAlpha and Freebase, afaik.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use freebase in a sentence?

Google acquired Freebase a little while before then, and there were only one or two updates to WEX.

What does freebase mean?

To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhaling the fumes produced.

What part of speech is freebase?

freebase is commonly used as verb, noun.