basis
pronunciation
How to pronounce basis in British English:
UK [ˈbeɪsɪs]
How to pronounce basis in American English:
US [ˈbeɪsɪs]
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- Noun:
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the most important or necessary part of something
Word Origin
- basis (n.)
- 1570s, "bottom or foundation (of something material)," from Latin basis "foundation," from Greek basis "a step, stand, base, that whereon one stands," from bainein "go, step" (see come). Transferred and figurative senses (of immaterial things) are from c. 1600.
Example
- 1. It 's the basis of virtually all media .
- 2. Academic research provides some basis to compare this performance .
- 3. He quarried in various books for scientific basis .
- 4. When genes were first given a molecular basis , it was a fairly simple one .
- 5. Meanwhile , in a separate move , china cut its various interest rates by 27 basis points .