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Definition: Army Base |
Army BaseNoun1. A large base of operations for an army. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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![]() | [U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 6, Talence, France] : [Nursing personnel]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 117, LaFauche, France. : Work room. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 119, Savenay, France. : Enlisted personnel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Philadelphia Quartermaster Terminal--U.S. Army base for the boys "over there"--Our job when done / E.M. Mayor 1918. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Detachment Medical Department, U.S. Army Base Hospital, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | U.S. Army Base Hospital, Funston and Ft. Riley, Kans. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Human Rights | South Africa | In 2000 a black platoon commander murdered his white company commander at an army base near Phalaborwa; at the beginning of the year, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. (references) |
Honduras | In an effort to uncover evidence that could lead to criminal prosecution of Government authorities suspected of human rights abuses, the Public Ministry invited forensic experts from Guatemala to exhume a cemetery on an army base in Olancho. (references) | |
South Africa | No further action was taken in the 2000 case in which a black navy seaman shot and killed his white commanding officer at Simons Town naval base and then committed suicide, or in the 1999 case in which a black lieutenant killed six white officers at an army base in Tempe before he was shot and killed. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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| Language | Translations for "army base"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | laktanya (army fort, army post, barrack). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鎮守府 (navy base). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ち"じゅふ (navy base). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | armyay asebay военная база. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-m-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: abaser, ambary, ambers, ambery, amebas, baryes, breams, embars, embays, maybes, sambar, smeary, yerbas. | |
-3 letters: abase, abeam, abyes, abysm, amber, ambry, ameba, areas, bares, barms, barmy, barye, baser, beams, beamy, bears, bemas, berms, braes, brays, bream, byres, embar, embay, eyras, maars, mabes, mares, marse, maser, mayas, maybe, rayas, reams, resay, saber, sabra, sabre. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-m-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: measurably. | |
+4 letters: immeasurably. | |
+5 letters: embarrassedly, measurability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 6D 79      42 61 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01101101 01111001 00100000 01000010 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r m y   B a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 006D 0079      0042 0061 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35847991236678571 |
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