Base and Premise

Base

Base noun - An immaterial thing upon which something else rests.

Usage example: the firm belief that complete trust between husband and wife is the base of any successful marriage

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Premise and base are semantically related in cause topic. In some cases you can use "Premise" instead the word "Base" as a noun or a verb.

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

Premise noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.

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Base and premise are semantically related in cause topic. Sometimes you can use "Base" instead the word "Premise" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: premiss, premised, premising

good	good base	good premise
similar	similar base	similar premise
complete	complete base	complete premise
original	original base	original premise
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, massive, large, huge, main, new, major, different.

base episode

premise episode

The entire premise of 3rd Rock from the Sun has Dick and his "family" observing what life is like on Earth and reporting the findings back to base.

Source: Fantastic Anthropologist
Take Off Every Magical Girl: The main characters transform as they are deployed from the Sephiro Fiore base to the premise.

Source: Anime / Il Sole penetra le Illusioni
Other than that, it's still your regular "demons invade a UAC base/planet Earth, go to hell and kick their butts" premise.

Source: Video Game / Demonsteele

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