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Basic and Composing

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. .
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

noun

  • The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole.
    • usage: "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"
  • Musical creation.

verb

  • Form the substance of.
    • usage: "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
  • Write music.
    • usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
  • Produce a literary work.
    • usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
  • Put together out of existing material.
    • usage: "compile a list"
  • Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.
    • usage: "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
  • Make up plans or basic details for.
    • usage: "frame a policy"