Basic and Background

noun

• 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.
• Usually plural. ( a necessary commodity for which demand is constant)
  • synonyms: staple

adjective

• Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
  • usage: "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
• Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
  • usage: "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
  • synonyms: canonic, canonical
• Serving as a base or starting point.
  • usage: "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
  • synonyms: introductory
• Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .

• (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
• (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
• (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.

• Name Meaning: Diminutive of Basil: Royal. Kingly. St Basil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. This name was introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. Derived from the same Greek word as the plant name basil
• Name Origin: Greek

noun

• A person's social heritage: previous experience or training.
  • usage: "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
• The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.
  • usage: "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
  • synonyms: ground
• Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem.
  • usage: "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
  • synonyms: background knowledge
• Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured.
  • usage: "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"
  • synonyms: background signal
• Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation.
  • usage: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
• The state of the environment in which a situation exists.
  • usage: "you can't do that in a university setting"
  • synonyms: setting, scope
• Computer science. ( the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear)
  • synonyms: desktop, screen background
• Scenery hung at back of stage.
  • synonyms: backdrop, backcloth

verb

• Understate the importance or quality of.
  • usage: "he played down his royal ancestry"
  • synonyms: play down, downplay

• (n.) Ground in the rear or behind or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground or the ground in front.
• (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement or out of sight.
• (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
• (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.