base

/beɪs/ n [C] (BASEBALL)

Definition

› (in the game of baseball) one of the four angles of a square, all of which a player must touch in order to score: He reached first base on a single.

(Definition of base n (BASEBALL) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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base n BASEBALL
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base n CHEMICAL
base n MAIN PART
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base n NUMBER

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