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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 central and most intense or profound part.
    • usage: "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"
  • A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor.
  • Literary term for an ocean.
    • usage: "denizens of the deep"

adjective

  • Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply.
    • usage: "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep"
  • Marked by depth of thinking.
    • usage: "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"
  • Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination.
    • usage: "a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water"; "a deep casserole"; "a deep gash"; "deep massage"; "deep pressure receptors in muscles"; "deep shelves"; "a deep closet"; "surrounded by a deep yard"; "hit the ball to deep center field"; "in deep space"; "waist-deep"
  • Very distant in time or space.
    • usage: "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"
  • Extreme.
    • usage: "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"
  • Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
    • usage: "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"
  • Strong; intense.
    • usage: "deep purple"; "a rich red"
  • Relatively thick from top to bottom.
    • usage: "deep carpets"; "deep snow"
  • Extending relatively far inward.
    • usage: "a deep border"
  • Of darkness. ( very intense)
    • usage: "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"
  • Large in quantity or size.
    • usage: "deep cuts in the budget"
  • With head or back bent low.
    • usage: "a deep bow"
  • Of an obscure nature.
    • usage: "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
  • Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge.
    • usage: "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
  • Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy.
    • usage: "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"

adverb

  • To a great depth; far down.
    • usage: "dived deeply"; "dug deep"
  • To an advanced time.
    • usage: "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"
  • To a great distance.
    • usage: "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods"
Deep is a masculine given name
  • Name Meaning: that which illuminates
  • Name Origin: Indian