Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A base or foundation-element, placed under the bottom of a machine or other apparatus, intermediate between the latter and the true foundation. It is used to lift the machine higher from the ground than it would be without it, and to do this without increasing the height of the masonry below, or making the machine itself inconveniently massive.
  • noun In general, anything going underneath a base or bed-plate.
  • noun A secondary base (of supplies) nearer or more accessible than the main base.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arch.) The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the lowest molding of an architectural base or of a baseboard

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Examples

  • He remembered fortresses he'd built with other children on rooftops and in flooded sub-base - ments.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • The feet planted themselves on a dark sub-base of burled rosewood, showing a carved border of miniature ocean surf.

    The Safe 2006

  • The feet planted themselves on a dark sub-base of burled rosewood, showing a carved border of miniature ocean surf.

    The Safe 2006

  • Navy's super-secure sub-base at King's Bay, Georgia.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Nuclear Weapons - January 2, 2000 2000

  • It should rest on a sub-base of sand several centimetres thick.

    Chapter 3 1994

  • For a road 11 m wide, sub-base 200 mm thick and a compaction density of 1500 kg/m3, where 4 % lime is to be added, 130 tonnes lime per kilometer of road will be required.

    1. General Information 1985

  • The quantities required will depend on the compaction density, width and thickness of sub-base or base designed, and also on the proportion of available lime in the lime hydrate.

    1. General Information 1985

  • He remembered fortresses he'd built with other children on rooftops and in flooded sub-base - ments.

    Neuromancer Gibson, William, 1948- 1984

  • A demolition bomb dropped into that sub-base would not have caused greater excitement than did that message.

    Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

  • Every sector base and sub-base was ready, the zero hour had been set.

    Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

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