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Basic   /bˈeɪsɪk/   Listen
Basic

adjective
1.
Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.  "The basic ingredients" , "Basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
2.
Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.  Synonyms: canonic, canonical.  "A canonical syllable pattern"
3.
Serving as a base or starting point.  Synonym: introductory.  "Basic training for raw recruits" , "A set of basic tools" , "An introductory art course"
4.
Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base.
noun
1.
A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use.
2.
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant.  Synonym: staple.



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"Basic" Quotes from Famous Books



... of one not amenable to Law, by any sort of political accident! That would indeed be to laugh at Justice in this Kingdom! That would indeed be cynical and unsound! We must never admit that there is no basic Justice controlling the edifice of our Civic Rights. We do, we must, conclude that a just and well-considered principle underlies this despotic Institution; for surely, else, it would not be suffered to survive for a ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... pertinent to the development of linkages "in great," being the first of a new class of machine tools that over the next 50 or 60 years came to include nearly all of the basic types of heavy chip-removing tools that are in use today. The development of tools was accelerated by the inherent accuracy required of the linkages that were originated by Watt. Once it had been demonstrated that a large and complex ...
— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson
... 1873, but I think that I am safe in saying that the same is true now after the lapse of forty more years. While, of course, there have been both elaboration and simplification, the basic principle of the universal telegraph of to-day is embodied in the drawings of the sketch-book of 1832, and it was the invention of Morse, and was entirely different from any form of telegraph devised ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse
... systolic blow at the second intercostal space on the left; but as just stated, such a murmur must surely be dissociated from an aortic murmur if found to develop after babyhood, and it should also be diagnosed from the frequently occurring hemic, basic and systolic murmurs; that is, if signs of pulmonary lesions are not heard soon after birth or in early babyhood, the diagnosis of pulmonary defects can be made only ...
— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D.
... The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various elements in all parts of the United States—a recognition of the old and permanently ...
— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various


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