DICTOMETER

ZÓCALO (Spanish for "base")

(base, sokkel)

1. Synonyms:
   • Base
   • Base of operations
   Definitions:
   • installation from which a military force initiates operations
   Examples:
   • The attack wiped out our forward bases
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Foundation
   • Base
   • Fundament
   • Foot
   • Groundwork
   • Substructure
   • Understructure
   Definitions:
   • lowest support of a structure
   Examples:
   • It was built on a base of solid rock
   • He stood at the foot of the tower
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Base
   • Bag
   Definitions:
   • a place that the runner must touch before scoring
   Examples:
   • He scrambled to get back to the bag
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • the bottom or lowest part
   Examples:
   • The base of the mountain
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
   Examples:
   • The base of the skull
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Floor
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • a lower limit
   Examples:
   • The government established a wage floor
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Basis
   • Base
   • Foundation
   • Fundament
   • Groundwork
   • Cornerstone
   Definitions:
   • the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
   Examples:
   • The whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Base
   • Pedestal
   • Stand
   Definitions:
   • a support or foundation
   Examples:
   • The base of the lamp
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Nucleotide
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside
   • the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Base
    • Alkali
    Definitions:
    • any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
    Examples:
    • Bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Base
    Definitions:
    • the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
    Examples:
    • The base of the triangle
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Basis
    • Base
    Definitions:
    • the most important or necessary part of something
    Examples:
    • The basis of this drink is orange juice
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Base
    • Radix
    Definitions:
    • (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
    Examples:
    • 10 is the radix of the decimal system
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Base
    • Home
    Definitions:
    • the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Al-Qaeda
    • Qaeda
    • Al-Qa'ida
    • Al-Qaida
    • Base
    Definitions:
    • 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
    
    
16. Synonyms:
    • Root
    • Root word
    • Base
    • Stem
    • Theme
    • Radical
    Definitions:
    • (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
    Examples:
    • Thematic vowels are part of the stem
    
    
17. Synonyms:
    • Infrastructure
    • Base
    Definitions:
    • the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
    Examples:
    • The industrial base of Japan
    
    
18. Synonyms:
    • Base
    Definitions:
    • the principal ingredient of a mixture
    Examples:
    • 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
    
    
19. Synonyms:
    • Base
    Definitions:
    • a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
    Examples:
    • A tub should sit on its own base
    
    
20. Synonyms:
    • Base
    Definitions:
    • (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Establish
   • Base
   • Ground
   • Found
   Definitions:
   • use as a basis for
   • found on
   Examples:
   • Base a claim on some observation
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • situate as a center of operations
   Examples:
   • We will base this project in the new lab
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Free-base
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Basal
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • serving as or forming a base
   Examples:
   • The painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats
   Antonyms:
   • Incidental
   • Incident
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Base
   • Baseborn
   • Humble
   • Lowly
   Definitions:
   • of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
   Examples:
   • Baseborn wretches with dirty faces
   • Of humble (or lowly) birth
   Antonyms:
   • Noble
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
   Examples:
   • Base coins of aluminum
   • A base metal
   Antonyms:
   • Superior
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Base
   • Immoral
   Definitions:
   • not adhering to ethical or moral principles
   Examples:
   • Base and unpatriotic motives
   • A base, degrading way of life
   • Cheating is dishonorable
   • They considered colonialism immoral
   • Unethical practices in handling public funds
   Antonyms:
   • Right
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Base
   • Mean
   • Meanspirited
   Definitions:
   • having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Noble
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Base
   • Baseborn
   Definitions:
   • illegitimate
   Antonyms:
   • Legitimate
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Base
   Definitions:
   • debased
   • not genuine
   Examples:
   • An attempt to eliminate the base coinage
   Antonyms:
   • Genuine
   • Echt