What's the difference between base and raise?

Base


Definition:

  • (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.

Raise


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
  • (v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
  • (v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
  • (v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
  • (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
  • (v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
  • (v. t.) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
  • (v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
  • (v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
  • (v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
  • (v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
  • (v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
  • (v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
  • (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
  • (v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
  • (v. t.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
  • (v. t.) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
  • (2) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
  • (3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (4) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
  • (5) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (7) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (8) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
  • (9) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
  • (10) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
  • (11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
  • (13) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
  • (14) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
  • (15) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
  • (16) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
  • (17) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (18) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
  • (19) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
  • (20) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.