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based meaning

EN[bejst]
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  • Verb
    1. simple past tense and past participle of base.
      1. Being derived from (usually followed by on or upon).
        1. It's a new film based on a best-selling novel.
      2. Having a base.
        1. The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability.
      3. Having a base of operations.
        1. The company is based in New York.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore basedSUPmost based
      1. founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.
        1. That was a soundly based argument.
      2. SLA (of a person) not caring what others think about his or her personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality.
        1. So a based dude like Hotwheels doing what he does with what he has and going conservative real talk on them makes the blood boilcurdle.
        2. The based owner of this site doesn't tell reasons why he bans users.
    3. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • We included estimates of the inequality ratio and inequality gap, based on equivalized household income quintiles.
        • Age ranges of Brachylophosaurini are those recalibrated in Fig 1; age ranges of other taxa are approximate, and are based on unrecalibrated previously published dates.
        • Here, the recovered centropyxids are also phenotypically diverse, with multiple numbers of spines that we divide into morphotypes, or variants, based on the absolute number of spines.
      2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
        • Based on the prosomeric model [40 –42 ], prethalamus corresponds to prosomere 3 (p3).
        • Based on the representation of WPGs, an effective algorithm for determining the new reconstructibility of BCNs is designed with the help of the theories of finite automata and formal languages.
        • Based on your arguments you must believe that C&S should be allowed to spamvertise.

    Meaning of based for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this word "based" is an adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adjectives
        • Verbs
          • Verb forms
            • Participles
              • Past participles
              • Verb simple past forms
          Difficultness: Level 1
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          Definiteness: Level 2
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          Definite    ➨     Versatile

          Other Vocabulary

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