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1. (adj.) basic
of or forming a base or basis; essential; fundamental:
a basic principle.
2. basic
pertaining to a chemical base.
3. basic
not having all of the hydroxyls of the base replaced by the acid group.
4. basic
alkaline.
5. basic
(of a rock) having relatively little silica.
6. basic
of the lowest military rank:
airman basic.
7. (n.) basic
Often, basics. an essential ingredient, principle, procedure, etc.
8. (n.) BASIC
a high-level programming language that uses English words, punctuation marks, and algebraic notation.
Etymology: (1965–70; B(eginner's) A(ll-purpose) S(ymbolic) I(nstruction) C(ode))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) BASIC
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. (adj) basic, staple
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
3. (adj) basic
pertaining to or constituting a base or basis
"a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
4. (adj) basic, canonic, canonical
reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
"a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
5. (adj) basic, introductory
serving as a base or starting point
"a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
6. (adj) basic
of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
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1. (adjective) basic
forming an essential part
to develop basic language skills; his basic argument; basic human needs
2. basic
of the simplest type
a basic piece of software; The food was basic but good.
3. basic
before other things are added
the basic rate of pay
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) basic
relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt
2. (adj) basic
having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt
3. (adj) basic
apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper
4. (adj) basic
said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. basic
A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's
experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which for many years
was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers. Edsger W. Dijkstra
observed in Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal
Perspective that “It is practically impossible to teach
good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC:
as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
regeneration.” This is another case (like
Pascal) of the cascading
lossage that happens when a language deliberately
designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously. A novice can
write short BASIC programs (on the order of 10-20 lines) very easily;
writing anything longer (a) is very painful, and (b) encourages bad habits
that will make it harder to use more powerful languages well. This
wouldn't be so bad if historical accidents hadn't made BASIC so common on
low-end micros in the 1980s. As it is, it probably ruined tens of
thousands of potential wizards.[1995: Some languages called “BASIC” aren't quite this
nasty any more, having acquired Pascal- and C-like procedures and control
structures and shed their line numbers. —ESR] BASIC stands for “Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
Code”. Earlier versions of this entry claiming this was a later
backronym were incorrect.
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Sense: of, or forming, the main part or foundation of something
Your basic theory is wrong.
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 Afrikaans: basies, fundamenteel |
 Arabic: أساسي، جَوْهَري |
 Bulgarian: основен |
 Brazilian: básico |
 Czech: základní |
 German: Grund... |
 Danish: basal; grund-; grundlægge |
 Greek: βασικός |
 Spanish: básico, fundamental |
 Estonian: alus-, põhi- |
 Farsi: اصلی؛ بنیادی |
 Finnish: perus- |
 French: de base |
 Hebrew: יְסוֹדִי |
 Hindi: बुनियादी |
 Croatian: osnovan |
 Hungarian: alapvető |
 Indonesian: dasar |
 Icelandic: grundvallar- |
 Italian: di base |
 Japanese: 基本の |
 Korean: 기초가 되는 |
 Lithuanian: pagrindinis, esminis |
 Latvian: pamata- |
 Malay: asas |
 Dutch: grond- |
 Norwegian: grunn- |
 Polish: podstawowy |
 Persian: اصلی؛ بنیادی |
 Pashto: اساسى، قاعدوى، اصلى، عمده |
 Portuguese: básico |
 Romanian: de bază |
 Russian: главный |
 Slovak: základný |
 Slovenian: temeljen |
 Serbian: polazni |
 Swedish: grundläggande, grund- |
 Thai: พื้นฐาน |
 Turkish: temel |
 Taiwanese: 基本的 |
 Ukrainian: основний; суттєвий |
 Urdu: بنیادی |
 Vietnamese: cơ bản |
 Chinese: 基本的 |
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