different between base vs camp

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?s, IPA^(key): /be?s/
• Hyphenation: base
• Rhymes: -e?s
• Homophone: bass

Etymology 1

From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis). Doublet of basis.

Noun

base (plural bases)

1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
   1. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
2. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
3. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
4. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
5. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
6. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)

7. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
8. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
9. Important areas in games and sports.
   1. A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
   3. (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
10. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
11. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
12. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
13. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
14. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
15. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
16. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
17. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.

    The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.

18. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
19. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
20. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
21. (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
22. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
23. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
24. (music) Dated form of bass.
    • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

      The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar.

25. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
26. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
27. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
28. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
29. (obsolete) An apron.
    • 1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess

      bakers in their linen bases

30. 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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Lyman to this entry?)

31. (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
32. (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
33. A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
34. (aviation) Short for base leg.

Synonyms

• (chemical compound that will neutralize an acid): alkali

Antonyms

• (chemical compound that will neutralize an alkali): acid
• (end of a leaf): apex

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

base (third-person singular simple present bases, present participle basing, simple past and past participle based)

1. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
2. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
3. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
   • 2005, John T. Warren, Laura B. Lengel, Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context, ?ISBN, page 73:

     Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows.

Derived terms

• base on

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English base, bas, from Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus (“low”). Cognate with Spanish bajo, Italian basso and base.

Adjective

base (comparative baser or more base, superlative basest or most base)

1. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
2. Low in place or position.
3. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.

   • If thou livest in paine and sorrow, thy base courage is the cause of it, To die there wanteth but will.

4. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum

     a peasant and base swain

5. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
   • 1551, Ralph Robynson (translator}, More's Utopia

     a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind
6. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
7. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
8. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.

9. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
10. Not classical or correct.

    • base Latin

11. Obsolete form of bass.

12. (law) Not held by honourable service.

Usage notes

• Said of fellows, motives, occupations, etc.

Synonyms

• (low, short): little, petite, short
• (of position): low-lying, lowland
• (of value): See Thesaurus:insignificant
• (vulgar, common): common, low-born, lowly, plebeian, vulgar
• (immoral): See Thesaurus:despicable or Thesaurus:evil
• (of inferior quality): See Thesaurus:low-quality
• (describing metals):
• (of illegitimate birth): See Thesaurus:illegitimate
• (not classical):
• (not held by honourable service):

Antonyms

• likeable
• desirable
• admirable
• noble

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably a specific use of Etymology 1, above; perhaps also a development of the plural of bar.

Noun

base (uncountable)

1. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars. [from 15th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:

     So ran they all, as they had bene at bace, / They being chased that did others chase.

Etymology 4

Variant forms.

Noun

base

1. Alternative form of BASE

Derived terms

• base jumper
• base jumping

Further reading

• base on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Base in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• base in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• base in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Abes, EABs, EBSA, baes

Afrikaans

Noun

base

1. plural of baas

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis).

Noun

base f (plural bases)

1. base

Related terms

• basar
• básicu

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ba.z?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ba.ze/

Noun

base f (plural bases)

1. base
2. basis
3. grounding
4. foundation

Derived terms

• base de dades

Related terms

• basar
• basal
• bàsic

Further reading

• “base” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bas?]

Noun

base

1. dative singular of basa
2. locative singular of basa
3. vocative singular of bas
4. locative singular of bas

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ba?z?]

Noun

base f

1. Obsolete form of báze.

Declension

Danish

Noun

base c (singular definite basen, plural indefinite baser)

1. (chemistry) base (generally understood to be a Brønsted-Lowry base)
2. (military) base
3. headquarters

Declension

Synonyms

• (headquarters): hovedkvarter

Dutch

Alternative forms

• basis (obsolete in this sense)

Etymology

Borrowed from French base, from Latin basis. Doublet of basis. Also a distant doublet of komst, via Proto-Indo-European *g???tis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?.z?/
• Hyphenation: ba?se
• Rhymes: -a?z?

Noun

base f (plural basen, diminutive basetje n)

1. (chemistry) base (class of compounds), alkali

Synonyms

• loog

Antonyms

• zuur

Derived terms

• basisch
• basenpaar
• basenvolgorde
• Lewisbase

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: basa

References

• “base” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

From Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baz/, /b?z/
• (France) IPA^(key): [baz]
• (Quebec, formal) IPA^(key): [b??z]
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): [b???z]

Noun

base f (plural bases)

1. base (bottom part of something)
2. base (safe place)
3. base, basis (fundamental belief)
4. (chemistry) base

Derived terms

Further reading

• “base” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis).

Noun

base f (plural bases)

1. base

Related terms

• basear
• básico

Italian

Etymology

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba.ze/

Noun

base f (plural basi)

1. base, alkaline
2. basis
3. (figuratively) mainstay

Antonyms

• sommità, altezza

Related terms

• basare
• basico
• basilare
• di base
• in base a

Latin

Noun

base

1. ablative singular of basis

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *g?émtis.

Alternative forms

• bace, bas, baas, basse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?s(?)/

Noun

base (plural bases)

1. A foundation or base; the bottom of a building.
2. The foundation, base, or bottom of a column, statue, or vase.
3. (rare) Padding inserted below a horse's bridle.
4. (rare) A hand's palm; the section of a hand below the fingers.
5. (rare) The bottom portion of a dress.
6. (rare, alchemy) The mix of metals used as a base for alchemical operations.

Descendants

• English: base
• Scots: base

References

• “b?s(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Etymology 2

Adjective

base

1. Alternative form of bas

Etymology 3

Noun

base

1. Alternative form of bace

Moore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bà.se/

Verb

base

1. to leave
2. to cancel, stop, cease
3. to abandon, throw away

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?pase/

Verb

base

1. inflection of bassit:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English base, and French base (“in chemistry”)

Noun

base m (definite singular basen, indefinite plural baser, definite plural basene)

1. (chemistry, military, general) a base

Derived terms

References

• “base” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English base, and French base (“in chemistry”)

Noun

base m (definite singular basen, indefinite plural basar, definite plural basane)

1. (chemistry, military, general) a base

Derived terms

• basisk
• database
• marinebase
• militærbase

References

• “base” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis).

Noun

base f (oblique plural bases, nominative singular base, nominative plural bases)

1. base (bottom part; supporting part)

Descendants

• French: base
• ? Middle English: base, bace, bas, baas, basse
  • English: base
  • Scots: base

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (base, supplement)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ba.z?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ba.zi/, [?bä.z??]

Noun

base f (plural bases)

1. basis
2. base
3. (chemistry) base
4. groundwork

Antonyms

• (chemistry): acid

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?base/, [?ba.se]

Noun

base f (plural bases)

1. base
2. basis
3. (linear algebra) basis
   • Base on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
4. grounding
5. foundation
6. (basketball) point guard
   • Base on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
7. (baseball) base

Derived terms

• a base de
• a base de bien
• barrebases
• base de datos
• placa base

Related terms

• basar
• basal
• básico

Verb

base

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of basar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of basar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of basar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of basar.

Venetian

Adjective

base f

1. feminine plural of baso

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæmp/
  • (General American, Canada, /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): [k???mp] ~ [k?e?mp]
• Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus.

The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp?n (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

Noun

camp (countable and uncountable, plural camps)

1. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
2. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
3. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
4. A single hut or shelter.

5. The company or body of persons encamped.
6. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
7. (uncommon) Campus
8. (informal) A summer camp.
9. (prison slang) A prison.
   • 2009, Nick Chandler, Jeanette Billings, Determined to Change: The Autobiography of Nick Chandler (page 184)

     Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners.

10. (agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost

    Synonyms: burrow, pie

11. (obsolete) Conflict; battle.
12. (Britain, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Derived terms

Related terms

• campus
• champerty

Descendants

Translations

Verb

camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

1. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.

2. To set up a camp.
3. (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
4. (video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
   • 1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ?

     Aristotle affirmeth that Rauens will gather together on sides, and campe and fight for victorie.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.

Derived terms

• cample

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.

Noun

camp (uncountable)

1. An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)

1. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
2. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
   • 2007, David Rothwell, Dictionary of Homonyms, Wordsworth Editions ?ISBN, page 88

     More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour […]

   • 2014, Sarah Lotz, The Three, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as fuck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest. God.

3. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
   • 2002, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth, McFarland ?ISBN, page 123

     In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”

Translations

Derived terms

• camp it up
• campy

Descendants

• ? Finnish: camp
• ? French: camp
• ? Spanish: camp

References

Anagrams

• CAPM, CPAM

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan camp (compare Occitan camp), from Latin campus (compare French champ, Spanish campo), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?emp- (“to bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kamp/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?kam/

Noun

camp m (plural camps)

1. field (open area of land)
2. camp (temporary outdoor accommodation)
3. field of study, discipline
4. (physics) field

Synonyms

• (open area): terreny
• (camp): campament
• (discipline): disciplina

Derived terms

Related terms

• campanya
• campestre
• campió

French

Etymology 1

Probably from a Norman or Picard word equivalent to French champ (itself inherited from Old French champ and Latin), from Old Northern French camp, from Latin campus, or alternatively from Occitan camp, Old Occitan camp, possibly Italian campo. Doublet of champ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Homophones: Caen, quand, quant

Noun

camp m (plural camps)

1. camp (An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.)

   Il a dressé son camp de l'autre côté de la rivière. ? He has erected his camp on the other side of the river.

2. camp (Semi-temporary accommodation)

   Un camp de concentration. ? A concentration camp.

3. camp (A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary)

   Les camps ennemis. ? The enemy camps.

4. camp (A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.)

   Ce pays est partagé en deux camps. ? This country is divided into two camps.

5. camp, summer camp.

   Un camp de vacances. ? A summer camp. (idiomatic; French usage does not specify a season)

Derived terms

Related terms

• camper
• campement
• camping
• champ

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English camp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??p/, /kamp/

Adjective

camp (invariable)

1. camp (Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying, affected, exaggerated)

   Une folle camp ne peut jamais en faire trop.

Noun

camp m (uncountable)

1. campness; An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

   La tactique des Sœurs dans la lutte contre le sida repose sur une stratégie politique : une utilisation du camp, une réappropriation revendiquée de l’efféminement, de la visibilité homosexuelle et de la follitude qui visent à désarmer les injonctions morales pesant sur la sexualité – sociales, religieuses, liées au sexe, au genre, aux pratiques sexuelles…

Synonyms

• follitude

Further reading

• “camp” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English campian.

Verb

camp

1. Alternative form of campen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse kampr.

Adjective

camp

1. Alternative form of kempe (“shaggy”)

Norman

Alternative forms

• champ

Etymology

From Old Northern French camp (compare Old French champ), from Latin campus, from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”). Compare French champ.

Noun

camp m (plural camps)

1. (Guernsey) field

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kamp, from Latin campus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?mp/

Noun

camp m

1. combat

Declension

Derived terms

• campd?m
• campealdor
• camp?ef?ra
• camph?d
• campl??
• campr?den
• campstede
• campung
• campw?pen
• campwudu
• campwered

Noun

camp n

1. an enclosed piece of land

Descendants

• Middle English: kampe, komp, comp
  • English: camp (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: camp

Old French

Etymology

Found in Old Northern French, Picard and Norman dialects, etc. From Latin campus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kãmp]

Noun

camp m (oblique plural cans, nominative singular cans, nominative plural camp)

1. camp.
2. Alternative form of champ

Descendants

• Norman: camp (Guernsey)
• ? French: camp
• ? Dutch: kamp
  • Afrikaans: kamp
  • ? Indonesian: kamp

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin campus, from the senses of "field of action, scope, opportunity, or produce of a field".

Noun

camp f (plural campau)

1. feat, accomplishment

   Synonym: gorchest

2. sport, contest

Derived terms

• campfa (“gymnasium, stadium”)
• campus (“excellent, splendid”)
• campwaith (“masterpiece”)
• campwr (“champion”)

Mutation