Word Finder - basic

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A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.

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Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.

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An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.

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Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.

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Basic training.

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The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.

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Necessary, essential for life or some process.

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Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.

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Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

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The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.

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Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.

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Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

I don't want to deny you such a basic need.

The lava is a basic augiteandesite.

Alex and Jonathan wanted to help decorate, but there were some basic things that could be done.

Wouldn't you want at least basic details?

It was his view that "the attainment of human rights in the fullest sense cannot be achieved so long as hundreds of millions of poverty-stricken people lack the basic necessities for life."

Its basic idea is that the state had no right to interfere with the religion of its citizens.

Her room was plain and basic.

On heating, they decompose, forming basic tetrammine salts.

In its most basic form (which I'll discuss here for simplification's sake), it is a guarantee of a minimum income above the poverty line for every citizen.

She saw the basic good in Fred and she was correct.

The restaurant is low-key and basic, but the food is delicious.

It is certain, however, that most obsidians are very acid or rhyolitic. The dark, semiopaque glassy forms of the basic igneous rocks are known as tachylytes.

What if the basic unit was a couple, a relationship, and what if that relationship had an identity?

A blue basic salt is precipitated first, which, on boiling, rapidly changes to the rose-coloured hydroxide.

In many cases it may be connected with basic oxygen, and the salt formation is assumed to involve the passage of divalent into tetravalent oxygen.

That is the basic unit—me.

It was a basic fundamental principle of the way of life.

While agriculture itself is a technology, it is, in its most basic form, extremely low tech.

By the action of the acetic acid and atmospheric oxygen, the lead is converted superficially into a basic acetate, which is at once decomposed by the carbon dioxide, with formation of white lead and acetic acid, which latter then acts de novo.

Acridine and its homologues are very stable compounds of feebly basic character.

The older optical glasses, now generally known as the " ordinary " crown and flint glasses, are all of the nature of pure silicates, the basic constituents being, in the case of crown glasses, lime and soda or lime and potash, or a mixture of both, and in the case of flint glasses, lead and either (or both) soda and potash.

It is a basic human right to breathe fresh air.

Even so, there was something else – something much more basic.

Cellulose has an affinity for acid stains, pectic substances for basic stains.

A basic chloride, Pb(OH)Cl, was introduced in 1849 by Pattinson as a substitute for white lead.

A basic nitrate, Ca(NO 3)2 Ca(OH) 2.3H 2 0, is obtained by dissolving calcium hydroxide in a solution of the normal nitrate.

As principal of Pusey House Mr Gore exercised a wide influence over undergraduates and the younger clergy, and it was largely, if not mainly, under this influence that the "Oxford Movement" underwent a change which to the survivors of the old school of Tractarians seemed to involve a break with its basic principles.

The fossils from the Rhaetic beds belong to the Avicula contorta zone, those from the Lias to the Ammonites angulatus zone, while the blocks of limestone with chert contain Inoceramus, Cretaceous foraminifera and other organisms. The materials yielding these fossils are embedded in a course volcanic agglomerate which gives rise to crags and is pierced by acid and basic igneous ricks.

The mineral gerhardtite is the basic nitrate Cu2(OH)3N03.

Basic copper phosphates are of frequent occurrence in the mineral kingdom.

The phrase has become a euphemism for the erosion of workers' basic rights.

It also forms the basic airframe for the P-3 Orion.

The final chapter in the book is Beyond Basic Style.

Students are only required to have some training in basic calculus and some familiarity with first-order difference equations.

My study will firstly focus on the role of experience in developing basic life skills in the Trinidadian guppy.

The domestic hearth is the most basic example of fire.

I use a basic gray primer to spray a thin coat all over.

The basic concept of minority groups is highly questionable.

When confronted with any thorny societal problem, I apply the same basic thought process I used on the five topics of this book.

In the specification for bridge material, drawn up by the British Engineering Standards Committee, it is provided that the steel shall be acid or basic open-hearth steel, containing not more than o.

Among the Tertiary volcanic rocks those of acid types (granites, granulites) were the first to appear and are developed latitudinally; rocks of intermediate type (dacites, andesites) characterize the Miocene and early Pliocene periods; while the basic rocks (ophites, elaeolite syenites and basalts) attained their maximum in later Pliocene and Quaternary times.

The pure carbonate is constantly used in the laboratory as a basic substance generally, for the disintegration of silicates, and as a precipitant.

According to the proportion of silica, the lava is distinguished as "acid" or "basic."

The basic lavas are usually darker and denser than lavas of acid type, and when fused they tend to flow to great distances, and may thus form far-spreading sheets, whilst the acid lavas, being more viscous, rapidly consolidate after extrusion.

Rohner (Ber., 1909, 42, p. 4 0 93) obtained a yellowish white oxide, of the formula I 4 0 9, which they regard as an iodate of tervalent iodine, Millon's oxide being considered a basic iodate.

It is a monobasic acid, forming one normal and two acid potassium salts, and basic salts with iron, aluminium, lead and copper.

Ferrous and ferric acetates are used as mordants; normal lead acetate is known in commerce as sugar of lead; basic copper acetates are known as verdigris.

The Lararnie Plains and the Green river basin, essentially a single structural basic between the east-west ranges of Rattlesnake Mountains on the north and the Uinta Range on the south, measuring roughly 260 m.

This mature weathering, resulting in the relatively complete separation of the quartz from the kaolin, and both from the calcium carbonate and other basic materials, implies conditions of rock decay comparable to those of the present time.

It is basic in character, and gives a red coloration on the addition of ferric chloride.