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Army Base

Definition: Army Base

Army Base

Noun

1. A large base of operations for an army.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Photo Album: Army Base

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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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Non-Fiction Usage: Army Base

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Army Base

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

army base

48

army base fort gordon

4

army base fort knox

22

army base pay

3

fort lewis army base

18

army base eustis fort

3

army base near petersburg va

16

army base schofield

3

fort hood army base

15

army base fort riley

3

army base fort houston sam

12

army base fort hood texas

3

army base fort stewart

11

army base belvoir fort

3

army base fort lee

10

army base drum fort

3

fort bragg army base

9

army base dix fort

2

army base fort sill

8

army base fort knox ky

2

fort benning army base

8

army base map

2

army base fort leonard wood

8

army base fort monmouth

2

fort campbell army base

7

army base fort rucker

2

fort carson army base

6

army base ft myer

2

alamitos army base los

4

army base fort myer

2

army base fort kentucky knox

4

army base fort shafter

2

fort meade army base

4

army base benning ft

2

army base bliss fort

4

army base benning ft

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Army Base

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

   

Russian 

  

военная база. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Army Base

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Army Base


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

41 72 6D 79      42 61 73 65

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

    

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

01000001 01110010 01101101 01111001 00100000 01000010 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#109 &#121 &#32 &#66 &#97 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 006D 0079      0042 0061 0073 0065

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

35847991236678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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