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on base

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  1. aboard, on baseadverb

    on first or second or third base

    "Their second homer with Bob Allison aboard"

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  1. on base

    In sports context, specifically in baseball or softball, being 'on base' refers to a player reaching safely any of the first three bases. It also refers to a statistic used to measure how often a batter reaches base for any reason other than fielding errors, fielder's choice, dropped/uncaught third strikes, fielder's obstructions or catcher's interference. The statistic is calculated as the sum of hits, walks, and times hit by pitch, divided by at bats plus walks plus times hit by pitch plus sacrifice flies.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of on base in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of on base in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of on base in a Sentence

  1. Abraham Lincoln:

    Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy.

  2. Terry McAuliffe:

    Our base voters are madder than heck and think they were robbed. They worked their hearts and souls out in the presidential election only to have it taken from them.

  3. Jay Ritter:

    From such a low base, there's only one way to go and that's up, i don't expect that there's going to be a flood of IPOs, but they will be an increasing number of companies in a variety of industries that will go public.

  4. Frank Stephenson:

    With Lilium, we don't have to base the jet on anything that has been done before, what's so incredibly exciting about this is we're not talking about modifying a car to take to the skies, and we are not talking about modifying a helicopter to work in a better way.

  5. Julianne Thompson:

    They felt betrayed, but they’ve stormed back in 2016 because of these candidates. … I don’t believe the evangelical base will be divided. But a lot will be decided in Iowa.


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