Baseless

Definition

base 1 /beÇs/ n ၁။ [ C usu sing ] (က) ေအာက္ေျခ။ ေအာက္ခံ။ the base of a pillar/column/lamp ❍ the base of the spine. (ခ) ( geometry ) အေျခ။ the base of a triangle/pyramid. ၂။ [C] အေျခခံ။ She used her family's history as a base for her novel. ❍ His arguments have a sound economic base. ၃။ [C] အေျခခံရာ။ အရင္းခံရာ။ The party's main power base is in the agricultural regions. ❍ an economy with a solid industrial/manufacturing base. ၄။ [C usu sing ] ေရာေႏွာပစၥည္းတစ္ခုတြင္ အဓိကပါဝင္ပစၥည္း။ 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] အေျခစိုက္စခန္း။ 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။ ဌာနခ်ဳပ္။ 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 ) အယ္လကာလီႏွင့္အက္စစ္ ဓာတ္ျပဳ၍ ရေသာဆား။ ေဘ့စ္။ ၇။ [C usu sing ] ( mathematics ) (ဒသမ ကိန္းစဥ္၌ ဂဏန္းေျခ ၁၀ရိွ၍ ဒိြကိန္းစဥ္၌ ဂဏန္း ေျခ ၂ ခု ရိွေသာ ကိန္းစဥ္အလိုက္) အေျခခံကိန္း။ ၈။ [C] ေဘ့စ္ေဘာ႐ိုက္ၿပီး အေရာက္ေျပးရေသာ သတ္မွတ္ေနရာ (၄)ခု။ v ၁။ ~ sth on sth အေျချပဳသည္။ အေျခခံသည္။ 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) အေျခ စိုက္သည္။ 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 ) အေျခစိုက္။ a Paris-based company ❍ a broadly-based curriculum. ❏ baseless adj အေျခအျမစ္မရိွေသာ။ baseless fears/rumours/suspicions. ❏ base rate n ( finance ) ဗဟိုဘဏ္က သတ္မွတ္ေသာ အတိုးႏႈန္း။ ❏ off base [ IDM ] ( US infml ) အလြဲလြဲအမွားမွား။ တလြဲ တေခ်ာ္။ Your interpretation of the situation is way off base. See also DATABASE base 2 /beÇs/ adj ( - r, -st) ( fml derog ) ယုတ္ညံ့ေသာ။ acting from base motives. ❏ basely adv ယုတ္ယုတ္ညံ့ညံ့။ ယုတ္ယုတ္မာမာ။ ❏ base metal n အဖိုးနည္းသတၱဳ။

Examples

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