Basic and Need

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 condition requiring relief.
  • usage: "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
  • synonyms: demand
• Anything that is necessary but lacking.
  • usage: "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
  • synonyms: want
• The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.
  • usage: "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"
  • synonyms: motivation, motive
• A state of extreme poverty or destitution.
  • usage: "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
  • synonyms: indigence, penury, pauperism, pauperization

verb

• Require as useful, just, or proper.
  • usage: "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
  • synonyms: necessitate, ask, postulate, require, take, involve, call for, demand
• Have need of.
  • usage: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
  • synonyms: want, require
• Have or feel a need for.
  • usage: "always needing friends and money"

• (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
• (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
• (v.i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
• (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
• (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
• (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
• (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
• (v.i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
• (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
• (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
• (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
• (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
• (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Need is the difference between a student's resources (the estimated family contribution and outside resources, such as scholarships) and the cost of attendance of a school.