The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
A branch of a family.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
The penis.
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
A person's leg.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
A vertical stroke of a letter.
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
To descend in a family line.
To remove the stem from.