base

/beɪs/

US pronunciation

American sound/beɪs/

base

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> base

Myanmar meaning

(n) အောက်ခြေ။အခြေ။အခြေခံ။အောက်ခံ။ရောနှောပစ္စည်းတစ်ခု၏ အဓိက ပါဝင်သည့်ပစ္စည်း။အခြေခံရာ။အရင်းခံရာ။ဌာနချုပ်။ (v) အခြေပြုသည်။အခြေခံသည်။ (adj) ယုတ်သော။အသုံးမကျသော။မရိုးသားသော။

Full entry

base¹ /beÇs/ n

၁။ [ C usu sing ] (က) အောက်ခြေ။ အောက်ခံ။ the base of a pillar/column/lamp ❍ the base of the spine. (ခ) (geometry ) အခြေ။ the base of a triangle/pyramid.
၂။ [C] အခြေခံ။ She used her family's history as a base for her novel. ❍ His arguments have a sound economic base.
၃။ [C] အခြေခံရာ။ အရင်းခံရာ။ The party's main power base is in the agricultural regions. ❍ an economy with a solid industrial/manufacturing base.
၄။ [C usu sing ] ရောနှောပစ္စည်းတစ်ခုတွင် အဓိကပါဝင်ပစ္စည်း။ a drink with a rum base ❍ Some paints have an oil base. ❍ Put some moisturizer on as a base before applying your make-up.
၅။ (က) [C, U] အခြေစိုက်စခန်း။ establish a base ❍ a naval base ❍ an air base ❍ After the attack, they returned to base. ❍ a base camp (eg when climbing a mountain). (ခ) [C] ဗဟို။ ဌာနချုပ်။ The town provides an ideal base for touring the area. ❍ The company has its base in New York, and branch offices all over the world.
၆။ [C] (chemistry ) အယ်လကာလီနှင့်အက်စစ် ဓာတ်ပြု၍ ရသောဆား။ ဘေ့စ်။
၇။ [C usu sing ] (mathematics ) (ဒသမ ကိန်းစဉ်၌ ဂဏန်းခြေ ၁၀ရှိ၍ ဒွိကိန်းစဉ်၌ ဂဏန်း ခြေ ၂ ခု ရှိသော ကိန်းစဉ်အလိုက်) အခြေခံကိန်း။
၈။ [C] ဘေ့စ်ဘောရိုက်ပြီး အရောက်ပြေးရသော သတ်မှတ်နေရာ (၄)ခု။
v
၁။ ~ sth on sth
အခြေပြုသည်။ အခြေခံသည်။ What exactly do you base that opinion on? ❍ This novel is based on historical facts. ❍ Direct taxation is usually based on income (ie A person's income is used to calculate the amount of tax he or she has to pay). ❍ The prosecution case was based on the evidence of two witnesses.
၂။ ~ sb/oneself in/at… (usu passive)
အခြေ စိုက်သည်။ Where is your company based? ❍ Most of our staff are based in Cairo. ❍ If we base ourselves in a central hotel, sightseeing will be easier.
❏ -based (forming compound adjs ) အခြေစိုက်။ a Paris-based company ❍ a broadly-based curriculum.
❏ baseless adj အခြေအမြစ်မရှိသော။ baseless fears/rumours/suspicions.
❏ base rate n (finance ) ဗဟိုဘဏ်က သတ်မှတ်သော အတိုးနှုန်း။
❏ off base [IDM ] (US infml ) အလွဲလွဲအမှားမှား။ တလွဲ တချော်။ Your interpretation of the situation is way off base. See also DATABASE

base² /beÇs/ adj (-r, -st) (fml derog )

ယုတ်ညံ့သော။
acting from base motives.
❏ basely adv ယုတ်ယုတ်ညံ့ညံ့။ ယုတ်ယုတ်မာမာ။
❏ base metal n အဖိုးနည်းသတ္တု။

More examples

A tall cliff, with a narrow footpath at its base
[base of] : The pituitary gland is at the base of the brain.
The manufacturer’s name is printed on the base of the vase.
The statue stands on a large round base.
[base of] : The base of your bed is as important as the mattress.
[base for] : Terrorists had been using the warehouse as a base for their operations.
Hikers find this a convenient base for their mountain expeditions.
A US naval base
Income from magazine publishing provides the company with a strong financial base.
[base for] : The report will give us a base for building a better healthcare system.
[base of] : A broad base of experience/knowledge/expertise
They have built a loyal customer base.
[base of] : The team has a base of strong players.
He has a large base of support within the party.
Britain’s manufacturing base was weak and deteriorating.
Use the stock as a base for your sauce.
Paint with a water base

Synonyms

bottom, foot, pedestal, stand, support, foundation, abject, abominable, authority, backbone, basement, basis, beastly, bed, bedrock, brutish, build, camp, center, cheap, chief constituent, coarse, common, construct, contemptible, core, corrupt, create, depend, depot, depraved, derive, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, dock, essence, essential, establish, evidence, ferine, field, footing, foul, found, fundamental, fundamental part, garrison, ground, groundwork, grovelling, hangar, harbor, headquarters, heart, hinge, home, humble, ignoble, immoral, important part, indelicate, infrastructure, key, loathsome, locate, low, lowly, main office, mean, menial, offensive, origin, paltry, pier, pitiful, plant, plebeian, poor, port, post, predicate, primary element, principal, principle, prop, rest, root, scandalous, seat, seating, servile, set up, settlement, shameful, shoddy, site, sleazy, sordid, sorry, source, squalid, starting point, station, stay, strip, substratum, substructure, swinish, terminal, trashy, ugly, underpinning, unworthy, vile, vulgar, worthless, wretched

Antonyms

annex, aristocratic, auxiliary, branch, clean, destroy, end, exterior, exteriority, good, high, honest, honorable, just, kind, leave, moral, move, nice, noble, outside, pleasing, pure, rich, superior, surface, top, trivia, uncorrupt, upright, wealthy