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where everything stands and nothing falls, the quiet hero holding up the loud stuff.
means The bottom, foundation, or starting point on which something rests or is built — whether a physical support, a home position, or the core of an idea.
from From Latin 'basis,' meaning foundation or pedestal, which came from Greek 'básis' — literally a stepping, a foot, the place where you set things down — built on the root that gives us 'come' and 'walk.' English took it through Old French 'base.' Note the family quarrel: this 'base' (foundation) is a different word from 'base' meaning low or contemptible, which comes from Latin 'bassus,' meaning short or thick. Same spelling, separate ancestors — one holds you up, the other puts you down.
- chemistry
- opposite of acid, turns litmus paper blue
- all your base
- 1991 game typo became internet's first viral meme
- math
- binary runs the world on base two
- baseball
- steal one and the crowd loses its mind
- latin root
- from basis, meaning a step or pedestal
fort sumter — site of first battle of american civil war, april 1861
base stealing in baseball — runner advances without hit, tracked statistic since 1800s
military base camp lejeune — largest marine corps base, north carolina
base pair dna — adenine-thymine and guanine-cytosine bonds discovered 1950