Wrongdoing and Base

noun

• Departure from what is ethically acceptable.
  • synonyms: error
• Activity that transgresses moral or civil law.
  • usage: "he denied any wrongdoing"
  • synonyms: wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus

(n.) Evil or wicked behavior or action.

noun

• Installation from which a military force initiates operations.
  • usage: "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
  • synonyms: base of operations
• Lowest support of a structure.
  • usage: "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
  • synonyms: foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
• A place that the runner must touch before scoring.
  • usage: "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
  • synonyms: bag
• The bottom or lowest part.
  • usage: "the base of the mountain"
• Anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment. (
  • usage: "the base of the skull"
• A lower limit.
  • usage: "the government established a wage floor"
  • synonyms: floor
• The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.
  • usage: "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
  • synonyms: basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone
• A support or foundation.
  • usage: "the base of the lamp"
  • synonyms: pedestal, stand
• A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA.
  • synonyms: nucleotide
• Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
  • usage: "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"
  • synonyms: alkali
• The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed.
  • usage: "the base of the triangle"
• The most important or necessary part of something.
  • usage: "the basis of this drink is orange juice"
  • synonyms: basis
• Numeration system. ( the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place)
  • usage: "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
  • synonyms: radix
• The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end.
  • synonyms: home
• 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.
  • synonyms: al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida
• Linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. (
  • usage: "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
  • synonyms: root, root word, stem, theme, radical
• The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area.
  • usage: "the industrial base of Japan"
  • synonyms: infrastructure
• The principal ingredient of a mixture.
  • usage: "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"
• A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit.
  • usage: "a tub should sit on its own base"
• Electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector. (

verb

• Use as a basis for; found on.
  • usage: "base a claim on some observation"
  • synonyms: establish, ground, found
• Situate as a center of operations.
  • usage: "we will base this project in the new lab"
• Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes.
  • synonyms: free-base

adjective

• Serving as or forming a base.
  • usage: "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
  • synonyms: basal
• Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense))
  • usage: "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly. birth"
  • synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly
• Used of metals. ( consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal)
  • usage: "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
• Not adhering to ethical or moral principles.
  • usage: "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds"
  • synonyms: immoral
• Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: mean, meanspirited
• Illegitimate.
  • synonyms: baseborn
• Debased; not genuine.
  • usage: "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"

• (n.) A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base or bars.
• (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
• (n.) An apron.
• (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
• (a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
• (a.) Low in place or position.
• (a.) To reduce the value of; to debase.
• (n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• (a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
• (a.) Not classical or correct.
• (a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
• (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
• (n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
• (n.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
• (n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
• (n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
• (a.) To abase; to let or cast, down; to lower.
• (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The smallest kind of cannon.
• (n.) The positive or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
• (n.) The exterior side of the polygon or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
• (n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
• (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
• (n.) The housing of a horse.
• (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees or lower.
• (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
• (a.) Of little or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
• (n.) The lower part of a wall, pier or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection or especially ornamented.
• (n.) The chief ingredient in a compound.
• (n.) The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
• (n.) A low or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings or the instrument which plays, base.
• (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
• (n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
• (n.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
• (n.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
• (n.) The basal plane of a crystal.
• (n.) A substance used as a mordant.
• (n.) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.

Base is a technical analysis tool. A chart pattern depicting the period when the supply and demand of a certain stock are in relative equilibrium, resulting in a narrow trading range. The merging of the support level and resistance level.

Base is either masculine or feminine given name

• Name Meaning: The Short One
• Name Origin: English

(DoD) A locality from which operations are projected or supported.
(DoD) An area or locality containing installations which provide logistic or other support. See also establishment.
(DoD) Home airfield or home carrier. See also base of operations; facility.