Noun: basis
| Singular | basis |
| Plural | bases |
Sample Sentences
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1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,
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Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
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Mountain on mountain thrown,
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With threatening hurl, that shook th' aerial firmament!
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We see here the ground-plan of masses of houses, with their upper walls of fire-baked brick on a basis of stone. [1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 27:]
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I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China. [2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)]
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Allow us to compete on an equal basis.
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Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee. [2013 September 7, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian:]
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You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
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The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
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Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
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Included in the basis could be elevation, cleaning, freight by truck and/or rail, government inspection fees, administration fees, interest and storage charges as well as allowance for risk and profit for the grain dealer.
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The collection of all possible unions of basis elements of a basis is said to be the topology generated by that basis.
Nouns inflected like basis
basis,
Etymology
From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (whence also come). Doublet of base. See: Latin Nouns '
basis', Ancient Greek Nouns '
βάσις'.