basing

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.
   • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii

   Synonyms:

   ground

2. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
   • Troops have been based in Munich since the end of World War II.
3. To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
   • 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.2005, John T. Warren, Laura B. Lengel, Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context, →ISBN, page 73
4. (slang) To freebase.
   • You know he started to base at a hell of a pace / And now it's a disgrace, he's got the pipe in his face1984, “8 Million Stories”, in Ego Trip, performed by Kurtis Blow ft. Run-DMC

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