A sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch" your name written in your own handwriting
Not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
Informal terms for money food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before frying them"
A score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball the quantity contained in a basket a container that is usually woven and has handles
Debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage" illegitimate 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" 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" 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" serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base" 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" the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" 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 the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice" the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle" a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp" the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor" (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull" the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain" (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system" place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" 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" assign to a station use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"