Base

"the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats";

"base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal";

"base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds";

"that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics";

"an attempt to eliminate the base coinage";

"the attack wiped out our forward bases";

"it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower";

"he scrambled to get back to the bag";

"the base of the mountain";

"the base of the skull";

"the government established a wage floor";

"the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture";

"the base of the lamp";

"bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia";

"the base of the triangle";

"the basis of this drink is orange juice";

"10 is the radix of the decimal system";

"thematic vowels are part of the stem";

"the industrial base of Japan";

"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 tub should sit on its own base";

"base a claim on some observation";

"we will base this project in the new lab";