Dictionary Entry
basic
basic is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
- 4adjective
Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
- 5noun
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
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- 6noun
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
- 7adjective
of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
- 8adjective
serving as a base or starting point
"a basic course in Russian"
"basic training for raw recruits"
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- 9adjective
pertaining to or constituting a base or basis
"a basic fact"
"the basic ingredients"
- 10adjective
reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
"a basic story line"
"a canonical syllable pattern"
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