off base (Meaning)
off base (s)
located outside a military base
off base
something (as a group of people) that reliably provides support (such as for a business or political candidate), the lower part of a complete architectural design (as of a monument), a side or face (see face entry 1 sense 5a(5)) of a geometrical figure from which an altitude (see altitude sense 1c(1)) can be constructed, the lower part of a wall, pier, or column considered as a separate architectural feature, the lower part of a heraldic field (see field entry 1 sense 3c), a number equal to the number of units in a given digit's place (see place entry 1 sense 8) that for a given system of writing numbers is required to give the numeral 1 in the next higher place, root sense 6, the starting point or line for an action or undertaking, the economic factors on which all legal, social, and political relations are formed, a permanent military installation, a point to be considered, any of the five purine or pyrimidine bases of DNA and RNA that include cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine, and uracil, a supporting or carrying ingredient (as of a medicine), any one of the four stations at the corners of a baseball or softball infield, the number that when raised to a power equal to the logarithm of a number yields the number itself, the part of a transformational grammar that consists of rules and a lexicon and generates the deep structures of a language, such a system of writing numbers using an indicated base, the fundamental part of something, a center or area of operations, a place where military operations begin, the place from which a military force draws supplies, such as, an electrode that modulates the current flowing through a bipolar junction transistor according to the voltage applied to the electrode, that part of a bodily organ by which it is attached to another more central structure of the organism, a number that is multiplied by a rate or of which a percentage or fraction is calculated, a number (such as 5 in 56.44 or 57) that is raised to a power (see power entry 1 sense 5a), any of various typically water-soluble and bitter tasting compounds that in solution have a pH greater than 7, are capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt, and are molecules or ions able to take up a proton from an acid or able to give up an unshared pair of electrons to an acid, a first or bottom layer of something on which other elements are added, a price level at which a security (see security sense 3) previously declining in price resists further decline, a baseline in surveying, the starting place or goal, a side or face on which the figure stands, the bottom of something considered as its support, the length of a base, a main ingredient
Synonyms & Antonyms of off base
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off base Sentence Examples
- The runner was caught off base and returned to second.
- The umpire's call was off base, resulting in a heated argument.
- The politician's recent statement was off base, alienating many voters.
- The conspiracy theory was so off base that it had no merit.
- The quarterback's pass was off base, allowing the defense to intercept.
- The company's new product design was off base, failing to meet customer demands.
- The weather forecast was off base, predicting rain when it actually remained sunny.
- The doctor's diagnosis was off base, leading to the wrong treatment plan.
- The lawyer's defense strategy was off base, not addressing the key arguments.
- The teacher's expectations were off base, assuming all students were at the same level.
FAQs About the word off base
located outside a military basesomething (as a group of people) that reliably provides support (such as for a business or political candidate), the lower part o
incorrect, inaccurate, wrong, erroneous, false, off, unsound, untruthful, misleading,untrue
precise, accurate, sound, true, right,proper, valid, exact, correct, established
The runner was caught off base and returned to second.
The umpire's call was off base, resulting in a heated argument.
The politician's recent statement was off base, alienating many voters.
The conspiracy theory was so off base that it had no merit.
