bays
71basehearted — /bays hahr tid/, adj. having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited. [BASE2 + HEARTED] * * * …
72baseless — /bays lis/, adj. having no base; without foundation; groundless: a baseless claim. [1600 10; BASE1 + LESS] * * * …
73baseline — /bays luyn /, n. Also, base line. 1. Baseball. the area between bases within which a base runner must keep when running from one base to another. 2. Tennis. the line at each end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the in bounds… …
74baseliner — /bays luy neuhr/, n. Tennis. a player who typically plays near the baseline using ground strokes, as distinguished from one who typically goes to the net. [1900 05; BASELINE + ER1] * * * …
75baseman — /bays meuhn/, n., pl. basemen. Baseball. a first, second, or third baseman. [1855 60, Amer.; BASE1 + MAN] * * * …
76basement — /bays meuhnt/, n. 1. a story of a building, partly or wholly underground. 2. (in classical and Renaissance architecture) the portion of a building beneath the principal story, treated as a single compositional unit. 3. the lowermost portion of a… …
77base-pairing — /bays pair ing/, n. Biotech. the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs. * * * …
78baseplate — /bays playt /, n. 1. bedplate. 2. Dentistry. a. a sheet of plastic material for making trial denture plates. b. the portion of a denture in contact with the jaw. 3. Metall. a plate of metal to be clad with another metal. [1875 80; BASE1 + PLATE1] …
79bass-bar — /bays bahr /, n. a strip of wood glued lengthwise inside the belly of instruments of the violin family, used to spread vibrations over the surface. [1830 40] * * * …
80bass clef — /bays/, Music. a symbol placed on the fourth line of a staff to indicate that the fourth line of the staff corresponds to the F next below middle C; F clef. [1900 05] * * * …
