Basic and Common

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 piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area.
  • usage: "they went for a walk in the park"
  • synonyms: park, commons, green

adjective

• Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public.
  • usage: "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"
• Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual.
  • usage: "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"
• Common to or shared by two or more parties.
  • usage: "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor"
  • synonyms: mutual
• Commonly encountered.
  • usage: "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
  • synonyms: usual
• Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.
  • usage: "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
  • synonyms: vernacular, vulgar
• Of or associated with the great masses of people.
  • usage: "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"
  • synonyms: plebeian, vulgar, unwashed
• Of low or inferior quality or value.
  • usage: "of what coarse metal ye are molded- Shakespeare; "produced... The common cloths used by the poorer population"
  • synonyms: coarse
• Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste.
  • usage: "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier-a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
  • synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
• To be expected; standard.
  • usage: "common decency"

• (v.i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
• (v.) Belonging or relating equally or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
• (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
• (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
• (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
• (n.) The people; the community.
• (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
• (v.i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
• (v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
• (v.) Profane; polluted.
• (v.i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
• (v.i.) To participate.
• (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.