base – English noun declension

English noun forms of base

Noun: base
Singularbase
Pluralbases

Sample Sentences

  • Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 178:]
  • The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold. [1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:]
  • The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
  • The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. [1709, J[ohn] Dryden, J[ohn] Oldham, “(please specify the page)”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], →OCLC:]
  • […] with flowers of gold, the body lined with velvet, and the bases, or skirts, with satin; also a frock of black satin, lined with sarcenet, having three welts of the same. [1842, Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, page 246:]
  • The base (skirt), as opposed to the practical skirt of the tonlet armour, is an affectation in imitation of the civilian fabric garment of the period and may well have been inspired by a similar feature on Maximilian's gift armour. [1977, Armours of Henry VIII:]
  • Both knee-length bases are made from black velvet [...] There was a second type of metal skirt that could be worn with armour: the tonlet. [...] Unlike the base, however, the tonlet did not have a textile counterpart. [...] [2007, AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies. Conference, Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-based Research : Postprints, pages 47–49:]
  • bakers in their linen bases [1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess:]
  • Use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets. [1834, Mary Somerville, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences:]
  • What, then, in the last resort is the determining influence of the base on the superstructure, and what is the 'relative independence' possessed by the various forms of superstructure according to Engels and most theoretical Marxists? [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 343:]
  • TYLER LENNON (played by Louis Healy): Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high. [2019 January 20, Ann Cleeves, Paul Matthew Thompson, 1:26:51 from the start, in Lawrence Gough, director, Vera(Cuckoo) (9), episode 2 (TV series), spoken by Tyler Lennon (Louis Healy):]
  • Shared you with my friends, the Pops they never had / You lived for our fishing trips, damn I had a dad / [...] / See, mine made sure he had every base covered / So imagine his pain finding base in the cupboard [2025 July 11, “The Birds Don't Sing”, in Gene Thornton, Pharrel Williams, Stevie Wonder, Terrence Thornton (lyrics), Let God Sort Em Out, performed by Clipse, John Legend, and Voices of Fire, Roc Nation Distribution, via Spotify:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
5. Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
6. Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
7. Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
8. Latin basis
9. Old French basebor.
10. Middle English base
11. English base
12. From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass. See: Middle English Nouns 'base', Latin Nouns 'basis', Ancient Greek Nouns 'βάσις'.

Verbs referencing "base"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns base, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns base, Spanish Nouns bajo.