Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BASIC

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Definitions of BASIC

1. Necessary, essential for life or some process.
2. Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
3. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
4. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
5. A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
6. Any of a family of third-generation programming languages (c.1964 on).
7. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
8. (informal) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
9. (military) Basic training.
10. (attributive) Initialism of Brazil, South Africa, India and China.
11. Initialism of British American Security Information Council.

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Examples of Using BASIC in a Sentence

• Austrian-school theorists hold that economic theory should be exclusively derived from basic principles of human action.
• Anaximenes is known for his belief that air is the arche, or the basic element of the universe from which all things are created.
• Ambushes as a basic fighting tactic of soldiers or of criminals have been used consistently throughout history, from ancient to modern warfare.
• It supersedes Integer BASIC and is the BASIC in ROM in all Apple II series computers after the original Apple II model.
• Alkaloids are a class of basic, naturally occurring organic compounds that contain at least one nitrogen atom.
• Then the definition was refined to being the basic particles of the chemical elements, when chemists observed that elements seemed to combine with each other in ratios of small whole numbers.
• The adjective alkaline, and less often, alkalescent, is commonly used in English as a synonym for basic, especially for bases soluble in water.
• Following on from the successful STOS BASIC for the Atari ST, AMOS BASIC was written for the Amiga by François Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos and published by Europress Software in 1990.
• Other areas of the country, particularly the North and Northeast regions, lack even basic analog PSTN telephone lines.
• In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table.
• BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use.
• BCPL ("Basic Combined Programming Language") is a procedural, imperative, and structured programming language.
• Basic Role-Playing (BRP) is a tabletop role-playing game which originated in the RuneQuest fantasy role-playing game.
• Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.
• Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand–based developer Mark Sibly.
• Basic English (a backronym for British American Scientific International and Commercial English) is a controlled language based on standard English, but with a greatly simplified vocabulary and grammar.
• Its game system is based on Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing (BRP) with additions for the horror genre.
• Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in federal countries such as the United States and Canada, the relationship between the central government and state, provincial, or territorial governments.
• His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light.
• It includes the theory and application of new and existing computer software technologies and basic aspects of music, such as sound synthesis, digital signal processing, sound design, sonic diffusion, acoustics, electrical engineering, and psychoacoustics.

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