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Basic and Beginning

basic

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)

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"
  • 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"
  • Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Basic is a masculine given name
  • 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
beginning

noun

  • The event consisting of the start of something.
    • usage: "the beginning of the war"
  • The time at which something is supposed to begin.
    • usage: "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
  • The first part or section of something.
    • usage: "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
  • The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
    • usage: "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
  • The act of starting something.
    • usage: "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"

verb

  • Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
    • usage: "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
  • Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.
    • usage: "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250, 000"
  • Set in motion, cause to start.
    • usage: "The U. S. Started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
  • Begin to speak or say."Now listen, friends" he began
  • Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series.
    • usage: "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
  • Have a beginning, of a temporal event.
    • usage: "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month"
  • Have a beginning characterized in some specified way.
    • usage: "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
  • Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object.
    • usage: "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
  • Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative.
    • usage: "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
  • Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language.
    • usage: "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"

adjective

  • Serving to begin.
    • usage: "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"
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