(a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
(a.) Low in place or position.
(a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
(a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
(a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
(a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
(a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
(a.) Not classical or correct.
(a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
(a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
(n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
(n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
(n.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
(n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
(n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
(n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
(n.) The chief ingredient in a compound.
(n.) A substance used as a mordant.
(n.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
(n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
(n.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
(n.) A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
(n.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
(n.) The smallest kind of cannon.
(n.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
(n.) The basal plane of a crystal.
(n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
(n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
(n.) The housing of a horse.
(n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
(n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
(n.) An apron.
(n.) The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
(n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
(n.) A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
(n.) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
(n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
(a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
(a.) To reduce the value of; to debase.
Example Sentences:
(1) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(2) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(3) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(4) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(5) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(6) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
(7) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(9) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(10) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
(11) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
(12) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(13) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
(14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
(16) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(17) Based on these results, we concluded that the inhibition of putrefactive anaerobe 3679 by sorbate resulted from a stringent-type regulatory response induced by the protonophoric activity of sorbic acid.
(18) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
(19) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(20) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
Dogmatic
Definition:
(n.) One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
(a.) Alt. of Dogmatical
Example Sentences:
(1) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(2) Feelings of guilt were related significantly to disaffected patterns such as dogmatism (p less than .001), hostility (p less than .001), and aggression (p less than .05), which suggests a turning inward of feelings of anger and disappointment in addition to their outward expression.
(3) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(4) Today the overestimation of human understanding is reflected in a dogmatic adherence to specific professional or idealogically biased doctrines and in the dubious ideal of a purely empirical science with its limited applicability to mankind.
(5) Yet, as Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has argued, a less dogmatic and more pragmatic government could borrow for a £30bn public works programme, creating infrastructure and jobs, for an annual cost of £150m a year.
(6) The recent advances in dental science have become superior to what they were just a few short years ago; however, we must never forget the variabilities of human responses to any of our treatment techniques, and we must not be dogmatic in our approach.
(7) The physician should assume a flexible attitude in this expanding field, and rigid dogmatic criteria should be avoided.
(8) Pavlov dogmatically refused to acknowledge that classical conditioning can be mediated by subcortical regions of the large cerebral hemispheres.
(9) Momentum Hastings seems pleasantly free of the kind of dogmatic, acrimonious squabbles that have recently engulfed the movement at national level.
(10) Readers were outraged by her dogmatism and superiority, furious about what they saw as cultural stereotyping and appalled by the kind of parenting that many commentators deemed "child abuse".
(11) Two major tenets, the disease conception of alcoholism and mandatory abstinence as a goal of treatment are reviewed, and insufficient evidence is found to support a dogmatic position on either.
(12) There is much in the system to arouse the suspicion of a dogmatic Conservative: the block grant; performance indicators; the fact that the whole thing was dreamed up by Labour.
(13) Congress not backing down on Iran nuclear deal as bill could face veto Read more The committee’s ranking Democrat, Maryland’s Senator Ben Cardin, is another pivotal figure who has proved much less dogmatic in his opposition to the process than his predecessor Menendez, who was conveniently forced to step aside after the Department of Justice indicted him on corruption charges.
(14) This development can only be understood as a social neurosis, with the narcistic frustation of the intellectual class as its cause, and grandiose claims, intolerance, dogmatic thinking and destructive behaviour as its symptoms.
(15) Instruments were adopted or adapted to assess the following items: knowledge of the grief process, personality traits of empathy and dogmatism, fear of death, fear of interacting with the dying, attitudes toward working with terminally ill clients as part of the professional role of dietitians, and clinical performance.
(16) Acknowledgement of this fact should lead one to appraise critically other papers giving dogmatic statements regarding therapeutic ranges of anticonvulsant plasma levels.
(17) And there is something about the education debate that polarises almost everyone into the most dogmatic positions – she would rather never have children herself, she declares at one point, than have to send them to a London state school.
(18) There are two few well-controlled studies of the use of cytotoxic agents to make dogmatic statements regarding their use in the treatment of rheumatic disorders.
(19) It's all too easy for clear and consistent to become prescriptive and dogmatic – not to mention unrealistic.
(20) Careful analysis of recently published clinical trials invalidates a dogmatic attitude in the debate of inotropic versus vasodilator therapy.