Base and Capital

Base

Base noun - A thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest.

Usage example: the base of the industry is California's Silicon Valley

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Capital and base are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Capital" instead a noun "Base".

Nearby Words: basic, basal, based, baseline, baseball

Capital noun - A thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest.

Usage example: during the 1980s Silicon Valley became the capital of the computer industry

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Base and capital are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Base" instead the word "Capital" as a noun or an adjective.

human	human base	human capital
old	old base	old capital
current	current base	current capital
original	original base	original capital
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, new, major, mobile, former, highest, primary, last, local, modern, terrorist, floating, high-tech, industrial, largest.

The Muslim armies needed a base and the administrators needed a capital; Alexandria being too vulnerable to Byzantine naval assaults, it was decided that the capital should be inland.

Source: Useful Notes / Cairo
In the Alcatraz Series, our hero needs to infiltrate the Highbrary, the capital and ultimate base of the Evil Librarians, in order to bring his Love Interest out of her coma.

Source: Landmarking the Hidden Base
Almost every friendly base, capital ship or space station Trent steps onto in the story mode is likely to come under heavy assault within minutes.

Source: All Your Base Are Belong to Us

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