Base and Wing

Base

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

Wing is an antonym for base.

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

Wing

Wing noun - A group of people acting together within a larger group.
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Synonyms for Wing

Base is an antonym for wing in topics: section, organ.

Nearby Words: winging, winged, winger, wingless

How words are described

old old base old wing
good good base good wing
full full base full wing
original original base original wing
Other adjectives: single, small, strong, actual, entire, real, large, black, main, new, dedicated, former, final, broken, military, last, giant.

Common collocations

campaign base campaign wing campaign

Both words in one sentence

  • In "Brig Break", the Gunnery Sergeant in charge of the brig uses a right wing militia group as a decoy to keep base security busy while steals weapons for Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
  • An episode of Seven Days had terrorists give a bomber wing an order to destroy an American base (supposedly overrun).
  • Evil escaped and his base blew up, like Frau Farbissina founding the militant wing of the LPGA.
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