What part of speech is based?

Based can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. based is a verb, past participle of base (infinitive).
  • 2. based is a verb, past simple of base (infinitive).
  • 3. based is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • based 
    more based
    most based
  • Positive: based 
  • Comparative: more based
  • Superlative: most based

What does based mean?

Definitions

Adjective
based - having a base of operations (often used as a combining form); "a locally based business"; "an Atlanta-based company"; "carrier-based planes"
based - having a base; "firmly based ice"

Verb
base - situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab"
base - use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"
base - use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

Noun
based - Wearing, or protected by, bases.
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Examples of based

#   Sentence  
1. adj. A locally based business.
2. adj. An Atlanta-based company.
3. adj. Carrier-based planes.
4. adj. Firmly based ice.
5. adj. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
6. adj. Tartiflette is a delicious potatoe and reblochon cheese based dish.
7. adj. Our fossil-fuel based industrial civilization will eventually collapse.
8. adj. I tried a shrimp based soup.
9. adj. That liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble.
10. adj. Base and unpatriotic motives.
11. adj. A base, degrading way of life.
12. adj. An attempt to eliminate the base coinage.
13. adj. Base coins of aluminum.
14. adj. A base metal.
15. adj. The painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats.
16. verb The prestigious IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) published an early report on Chernobyl which was based on information from Russian sources and stated that there was no significant health effects.
17. verb Kalkat, who currently chairs the independent US-based International Council on Conflict Resolution, said despite the failure of the Indian army to disarm or even subdue the Tigers, India remained the only power capable of influencing the course of the current peace talks.
18. verb We also know how Dan Rather libeled George Bush and impugned his service in the Texas Air National Guard on a "60 Minutes II" report based largely on forged documents.
19. verb During this time, F-102 squadrons were based out of Tan Son Nhut, Da Nang and Bien Hoa in Vietnam, and Udorn and Don Muang in Thailand.
20. verb On its journey across the Bay of Bengal the freighter was tracked by the Indian navy and Orissa-based spy planes of India's Aviation Research Center; it was intercepted by Indian naval vessels off Sri Lanka's east coast.
21. verb Ramtanu Maitra writes for a number of international journals and is a regular contributor to the Washington-based EIR and the New Delhi-based Indian Defense Review.
22. verb Pakistani officials claim there are as many as 42 RAW agents based in Kandahar and another 12 in Jalalabad.
23. verb The people who carry out these underground arms/drugs/sex trafficking deals are trauma based mind controlled slaves.
24. verb My perspective is entirely based on what I see, on what I read and on the fact that my family has lived in this region for almost 200 years.
25. verb More people die from AIDS in one day in Africa than all the Russians who died in the hands of Chechnya-based Moslem suicide murderers since that conflict started.
26. verb Many people have argued that a US-based Al Qaeda operative is behind the earlier Fall 2001 anthrax mailings in the US, and that the mailings served as a threat and warning.
27. verb The same week, the WTC head testified that while they had not received any briefing on the use of planes, they had taken steps to prepare for an attack using anthrax based on intelligence that had been received.
28. verb The United States truly no longer has time for faulty analysis or politically-based preconceptions.
29. verb (His conclusion may have been based on the fake mobile biolab plans foisted upon the US by the Chalabi associate "Curveball", which Alibek divined to be identical to Russian mobile lab design).
30. verb Pay will be based on experience and educational background.
31. noun The base of the lamp.
32. noun A tub should sit on its own base.
33. noun The base of the skull.
34. noun Glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments.
35. noun He told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green.
36. noun Everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base.
37. noun The base of the mountain.
38. noun The base of the triangle.
39. noun The industrial base of Japan.
40. noun It was built on a base of solid rock.
Sentence  
adj.
A locally based business.
An Atlanta-based company.
Carrier-based planes.
Firmly based ice.
Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Tartiflette is a delicious potatoe and reblochon cheese based dish.
Our fossil-fuel based industrial civilization will eventually collapse.
I tried a shrimp based soup.
That liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble.
Base and unpatriotic motives.
A base, degrading way of life.
An attempt to eliminate the base coinage.
Base coins of aluminum.
A base metal.
The painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats.
verb
The prestigious IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) published an early report on Chernobyl which was based on information from Russian sources and stated that there was no significant health effects.
Kalkat, who currently chairs the independent US-based International Council on Conflict Resolution, said despite the failure of the Indian army to disarm or even subdue the Tigers, India remained the only power capable of influencing the course of the current peace talks.
We also know how Dan Rather libeled George Bush and impugned his service in the Texas Air National Guard on a "60 Minutes II" report based largely on forged documents.
During this time, F-102 squadrons were based out of Tan Son Nhut, Da Nang and Bien Hoa in Vietnam, and Udorn and Don Muang in Thailand.
On its journey across the Bay of Bengal the freighter was tracked by the Indian navy and Orissa-based spy planes of India's Aviation Research Center; it was intercepted by Indian naval vessels off Sri Lanka's east coast.
Ramtanu Maitra writes for a number of international journals and is a regular contributor to the Washington-based EIR and the New Delhi-based Indian Defense Review.
Pakistani officials claim there are as many as 42 RAW agents based in Kandahar and another 12 in Jalalabad.
The people who carry out these underground arms/drugs/sex trafficking deals are trauma based mind controlled slaves.
My perspective is entirely based on what I see, on what I read and on the fact that my family has lived in this region for almost 200 years.
More people die from AIDS in one day in Africa than all the Russians who died in the hands of Chechnya-based Moslem suicide murderers since that conflict started.
Many people have argued that a US-based Al Qaeda operative is behind the earlier Fall 2001 anthrax mailings in the US, and that the mailings served as a threat and warning.
The same week, the WTC head testified that while they had not received any briefing on the use of planes, they had taken steps to prepare for an attack using anthrax based on intelligence that had been received.
The United States truly no longer has time for faulty analysis or politically-based preconceptions.
(His conclusion may have been based on the fake mobile biolab plans foisted upon the US by the Chalabi associate "Curveball", which Alibek divined to be identical to Russian mobile lab design).
Pay will be based on experience and educational background.
noun
The base of the lamp.
A tub should sit on its own base.
The base of the skull.
Glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments.
He told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green.
Everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base.
The base of the mountain.
The base of the triangle.
The industrial base of Japan.
It was built on a base of solid rock.
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