home base vs bag

bag vs home base

home base and bag both are nouns.

home base is not a verb while bag is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
home base	Yes	No	No	No
bag	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, bag is a hypernym of home base; that is, bag is a word with a broader meaning than home base:

home base: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
bag: a place that the runner must touch before scoring

Other hypernyms of home base include base.

home base (noun)	bag (noun)
(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise	an activity that you like or at which you are superior
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score	mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
	a flexible container with a single opening
	a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
	a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
	a place that the runner must touch before scoring
	an ugly or ill-tempered woman
	the quantity that a bag will hold
	the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)

home base (verb)	bag (verb)
	put into a bag
	capture or kill, as in hunting
	take unlawfully
	bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
	hang loosely, like an empty bag

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