Basic and Front

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.

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 side that is forward or prominent.
  • synonyms: front end, forepart
• The line along which opposing armies face each other.
  • synonyms: battlefront, front line
• The outward appearance of a person.
  • usage: "he put up a bold front"
• The side that is seen or that goes first.
• A person used as a cover for some questionable activity.
  • synonyms: front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
• A sphere of activity involving effort.
  • usage: "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"
• Meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses. (
• The immediate proximity of someone or something.
  • usage: "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company"
  • synonyms: presence
• The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer.
  • usage: "he walked to the front of the stage"
• A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
  • usage: "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
  • synonyms: movement, social movement

verb

• Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to.
  • usage: "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park"
  • synonyms: look, face
• Confront bodily.
  • usage: "breast the storm"
  • synonyms: breast

adjective

• Relating to or located in the front.
  • usage: "the front lines"; "the front porch"

• (n.) The most conspicuous part.
• (n.) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
• (n.) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
• (v.t.) To appear before; to meet.
• (n.) A position directly before the face of a person or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops or of a house.
• (n.) The part or surface of anything which seems to look out or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.
• (v.t.) To stand opposed or opposite to or over against as, his house fronts the church.
• (v.t.) To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
• (v.t.) To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
• (v.t.) To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
• (n.) The beginning.
• (n.) The forehead, countenance or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front.
• (v.t.) To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
• (a.) Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
• (n.) The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word "front," used as an exclamation.
• (n.) All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified.
• (n.) The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, /10.

(DoD, NATO) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
(DoD, NATO) The direction of the enemy.
(DoD, NATO) The line of contact of two opposing forces.
(DoD, NATO) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.