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BASE COURSE

Definition: BASE COURSE

BASE COURSE

1. (Arch.) (a) The first or lower course of a foundation wall, made of large stones of a mass of concrete; -- called also foundation course . (b) The architectural member forming the transition between the basement and the wall above.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: BASE COURSE

DomainDefinitions

Building & Civil Engineering

A course directly supporting the surfacing. Source: European Union. (references)
 Road-mix construction involves the mixing and placing of a bituminous mixture on a prepared -- or --. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A layer of specified or selected material of planned thickness constructed on the subgrade or subbase to serve one or more functions, such as distributing load, providing drainage, minimizing frost action, etc. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BASE COURSE

English words defined with "BASE COURSE": basicintroductory. (references)

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Expression: BASE COURSE

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "BASE COURSE": sub-base course.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BASE COURSE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

base course

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BASE COURSE

Language Translations for "BASE COURSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bærelag (base, blanket course, bottoming, hardcore, penning, pitching, road base, separation layer, sub-base, sub-base reinforcement). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

funderingslaag (base, road base), fundering (base, fondament, fondement, foundation, fundament, fundering, road base, sub-base, subgrade(U.S.A.)). (various references)

   

French

  

couche de support (base, road base), couche de base (base, road base). (various references)

   

German

  

Tragschicht (base, road base). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βάση (base, base plate, baseplate, basis, bearer plates, bed, bed plate, bosh, cradle, equipment shelf, foot, foothold, footing, foundation lace, ground, groundwork, kernel, knitted backing, mounting, pedestal, pinch, rack, radix, road base, root, socket, sole, sole-plate, standard, step, substrate, support, tab). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תשתית (bed, foundation, subsoil). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

alapréteg (ballast, daub, primer coat, sub). (various references)

   

Italian

  

strato di base (base, road base, sub-base). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asebay oursecay

   

Portuguese

  

base (background, base, basis, bed, camp, cap, foot, footing, foundation, foundling, frame, fund, fundamental, ground, grounding, groundwork, hornbook, logging depot, mounting, Patten, pedestal, pinch, platen, principle, radical, road base, root, sabot, seat, sinew, sole, stool, substruction, substructure, vibration table). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

base (base, basis, bedrock, cost basis, crutch, flange, foot, footing, foundation, fund, ground, jack, Mount, mounting, mounting base, pedestal, pedestal base, radices, radix, rest, road base, seating, socket, stand, substrate, substruction, support, tax basis), capa de base (base, road base). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bärlager (abutment, base, road base, thrust bearing, thrust block). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BASE COURSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-o-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: sebaceous.

-2 letters: becurses, bescours, carouses, obscures, scabrous, suberose, subraces, surcease.

-3 letters: abusers, acerose, acerous, aerobes, arcuses, arouses, because, becurse, bescour, boraces, bourses, carouse, caseose, caseous, causers, ceruses, cesurae, cesuras, courses, creases, obscure, rebuses, recuses, rescues, reseaus, rubaces, rubasse, sarcous, saucers, secures, serosae, soucars, sources, subrace, subsere, sucrase, sucrose, surbase, ureases.

-4 letters: abuser, abuses, across, aerobe, arouse, assure, bourse, bouses, braces, broses, bursae, bursas, burses, cabers, carbos, caress, carobs, carses, causer, causes, ceases, cereus, cerous, ceruse, cesura, coarse, cobras, corses, course, crases, crease, crosse, crouse, cruses, cubers, curses, cusser, erases, eroses, escars, ocreae, rebecs, recess, recuse, rescue, reseau, reuses, rouses, rubace, sabers, sabres, sarees, saucer, sauces, scares, scaurs, scores, scours, scouse, screes, scrubs, scubas, secure, seracs, serosa, serous, sobers, soucar, source, subers, subsea, sucres, urases, urease.

-5 letters: abuse, acerb, acres, arcus, arose, arses, ascus, aures, bares, baser, bases, basso, bears, beaus, beers, boars, boras, bores, bouse, brace, braes, brass, brees, brose, buras, bursa, burse, buses, caber, carbo, carbs, cares, carob, carse, cases, casus, cause, cease, ceres, ceros, cobra, cores, corse, coses, crabs, crass, cress, cross, cruse, cuber, cubes, curbs, cures, curse, cusso, eases, ecrus, erase, erose, erses, escar, euros, oases, obese, ocrea, orcas, races, rases, rebec, rebus, reuse, robes, roses, roues, rouse, rubes, ruses, saber, sabes, sabre, saree, saros, sauce, scabs, scare, scars, scaur, score, scour, scree, scrub, scuba, sears, seers, serac, seres, soars, sober, soras, sorbs, sores, sorus, sours, souse, subas, suber, sucre, suers, suras, urase, ureas, ursae, users.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-o-r-s-s-u"
 

+3 letters: ribonucleases, subcategories.

 

+4 letters: scabrousnesses, subcategorizes.

 

+5 letters: sesquicarbonate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BASE COURSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 53 45      43 4F 55 52 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010011 01000101 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010101 01010010 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0053 0045      0043 004F 0055 0052 0053 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

363553392374955525339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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