Word Type
Base can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
base used as a noun:
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- # A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; (Basis).
- A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
- Important areas in games and sports
"A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek" - The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.
- A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- The name of the controlling terminal of a transistor.
- The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- A number raised to the power of an exponent.
"The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3." - The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- A cheerleader who stays on the ground.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
base used as a verb:
- To have as its foundation or starting point.
- To be located (at a particular place).
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
base used as an adjective:
- low
- inferior
- of low standing or rank
- immoral, cowardly
- common
- nonprecious used to describe metals which are not precious; base metal
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is base?
- Noun usage: A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek
- Noun usage: The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of base are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of base, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
