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BASED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a base of operations (often used as a combining form)
Example:
carrier-based planes
Classified under:
Similar:
settled (established in a desired position or place; not moving about)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a base
Example:
firmly based ice
Classified under:
Similar:
supported (held up or having the weight borne especially from below)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb base
Context examples:
A study design which includes a prospectively planned opportunity for modification of one or more specified aspects of the study design and/or hypotheses based on analysis of data, usually interim data.
(Adaptive Design, NCI Thesaurus)
A blood group system based on recognition of inherited differences in the H antigen as expressed on erythrocytes.
(ABO Blood Group, NCI Thesaurus)
A finding based on laboratory test results that indicate abnormal levels of prolactin hormone in a blood specimen.
(Abnormal Blood Prolactin, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
The charged characteristics of clay-based nanoparticles provide hemostatic ability to the hydrogels.
(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
While a plant-based diet is generally considered healthier than a meat-based diet in preventing the risk of diabetes, not all meats affect the risk equally.
(Eating Meat Linked to Higher Risk of Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Conclusions about eggs based on available scientific evidence vary widely — in part because nutrition research is notoriously hard to conduct accurately.
(Eggs No Longer Part of a Healthy Diet?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The Scotland-based team that created Dolly the sheep in 1998 required 277 attempts and produced only one lamb.
(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)
A tiny silicon-based device was created by researchers making them able to harness heat from waste and convert it to it into DC electrical power.
(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A finding based on laboratory test results that indicate abnormal levels of gonadotrophin hormone in a blood specimen.
(Abnormal Blood Gonadotrophin, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
The researchers made their conclusion based on observations of two supernova remnants, the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A (Cas A).
(Finding Alien Life Unlikely Due to Lack of Phosphorus in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
