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basic
1[ bey-sik ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental:
a basic principle; the basic ingredient.
Synonyms: underlying, basal, primary, key, essential, elementary
- Chemistry.
- not having all of the hydroxyls of the base replaced by the acid group, or having the metal or its equivalent united partly to the acid group and partly to oxygen.
- Metallurgy. noting, pertaining to, or made by a steelmaking process basic process in which the furnace or converter is lined with a basic or nonsiliceous material, mainly burned magnesite and a small amount of ground basic slag, to remove impurities from the steel. Compare acid ( def 9 ).
- Geology. (of a rock) having relatively little silica.
- Military.
- primary:
basic training.
- of lowest rank:
airman basic.
- Slang.
- (especially of a female) characterized by predictable or unoriginal style, interests, or behavior:
those basic girls who follow trends.
- (of things) boringly predictable or unoriginal:
His lyrics are just so basic.
noun
- Military.
- a soldier or airman receiving basic training.
- Often basics. something that is fundamental or basic; an essential ingredient, principle, procedure, etc.:
to learn the basics of music; to get back to basics.
- Slang. a person, especially a female, who is boringly predictable or unoriginal.
BASIC
2[ bey-sik ]
noun
- a widely adopted programming language that uses English words, punctuation marks, and algebraic notation to facilitate communication between the operator or lay user and the computer.
basic
1/ ˈbeɪsɪk /
adjective
- of, relating to, or forming a base or basis; fundamental; underlying
- elementary or simple
a few basic facts
- excluding additions or extras
basic pay
- chem
- of, denoting, or containing a base; alkaline
- (of a salt) containing hydroxyl or oxide groups not all of which have been replaced by an acid radical
basic lead carbonate, 2PbCO3.Pb(OH)2
- metallurgy of, concerned with, or made by a process in which the furnace or converter is made of a basic material, such as magnesium oxide
- (of such igneous rocks as basalt) containing between 52 and 45 per cent silica
- military primary or initial
basic training
noun
- usually plural a fundamental principle, fact, etc
BASIC
2/ ˈbeɪsɪk /
noun
- a computer programming language that uses common English terms
BASIC
/ bā′sĭk /
- A simple programming language developed in the 1960s that is widely taught to students as a first programming language.
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Other Words From
- non·basic adjective
- quasi-basic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of basic2
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Example Sentences
We were barely into the appetizer when he asked a fairly basic question—where did my family live?
The training, at least as described by the U.S. military, is incredibly basic.
Nothing in it was meant to change the basic operations of the capitalist economy or to intervene aggressively in class relations.
And yet—as any private who went through basic can tell you—good weapons training means not shooting wildly 14 times.
I was put in a solitary confinement completely cut off from the outside world without even enjoying basic prisoner rights.
Nuclei and certain other structures in the blood are stained by the basic dyes, and are hence called basophilic.
What we call curiosity in the ape is the basic form of the characteristic which we call attention or observation in man.
The carbonates are occasionally partially hydrolyzed to basic carbonates.
It is thus evident, that the solvent action of ammonium hydroxide is not due to its basic functions.
With each new draft we added more to the basic information we had, rounding out the invention in ever greater detail.
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