base vs circle

base

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. 

adj
  • Low in place or position. 

  • Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly. 

  • Not held by honourable service. 

  • Not considered precious or noble. 

  • Not classical or correct. 

  • Alloyed with inferior metal; debased. 

circle

verb
  • To surround. 

  • To travel around along a curved path. 

  • To travel in circles. 

  • To place or mark a circle around. 

noun
  • An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle. 

  • A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point. 

  • A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning. 

  • A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match. 

  • A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep. 

  • A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself. 

  • A territorial division or district. 

  • Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures. 

  • Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures. 

  • A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center). 

  • A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle. 

  • A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest. 

  • The orbit of an astronomical body. 

  • A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship. 

  • A traffic circle or roundabout. 

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