base vs low

base

adj
  • Not considered precious or noble. 

  • Low in place or position. 

  • Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly. 

  • Not held by honourable service. 

  • Not classical or correct. 

  • Alloyed with inferior metal; debased. 

verb
  • To be located (at a particular place). 

  • To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. 

  • To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. 

  • To freebase. 

noun
  • A basic but essential component or ingredient. 

  • Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform. 

  • A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles. 

  • The smallest kind of cannon. 

  • A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles. 

  • The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life. 

  • The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT). 

  • Something from which other things extend; a foundation. 

  • A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek. 

  • The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat. 

  • freebase cocaine 

  • A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer. 

  • The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis. 

  • In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground. 

  • A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office. 

  • A substance used as a mordant in dyeing. 

  • A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder. 

  • A number raised to the power of an exponent. 

  • A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object. 

  • Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts. 

  • The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support. 

  • A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. 

  • A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element. 

  • The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement. 

  • A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached. 

  • Synonym of radix. 

  • The game of prisoners' bars. 

  • The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon. 

  • The lower part of the field. See escutcheon. 

  • The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters. 

  • A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material. 

  • One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play. 

  • The set of sets from which a topology is generated. 

low

adj
  • Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.) 

  • Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak. 

  • Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty. 

  • Being a nadir, a bottom. 

  • Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply. 

  • Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence. 

  • Dead. (Compare lay low.) 

  • Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative). 

  • Below the batter's knees. 

  • Humble, meek, not haughty. 

  • Low-cut. 

  • Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat. 

  • Depressed in mood, dejected, sad. 

  • Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory). 

  • Being near the equator. 

  • Quiet; soft; not loud. 

  • Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions. 

  • Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. 

  • Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate. 

  • Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc). 

  • Simple in complexity or development. 

  • Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc. 

  • Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed. 

noun
  • An area of low pressure; a depression. 

  • The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period. 

  • A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price. 

  • A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation. 

  • A flame; fire; blaze. 

  • A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc). 

  • The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn. 

  • The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle. 

  • Barrow, mound, tumulus. 

verb
  • To burn; to blaze. 

  • To moo. 

adv
  • In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly. 

  • In a time approaching our own. 

  • In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution. 

  • Close to the ground. 

  • With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently. 

  • Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply. 

  • Of a pitch, at a lower frequency. 

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