basic

basic has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• a.. Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• a.. 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.
• a.. Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
• a.. Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
• n.. (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
• n.. 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
• a.. of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
• a.. 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"
• a.. 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"
• a.. reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"