Basic and Old

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

• Past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'. )

adjective

• Used especially of persons. ( having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
  • usage: "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you"
• Of long duration; not new.
  • usage: "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
• Used for emphasis. ( very familiar)
  • usage: "good old boy"; "same old story"
• Skilled through long experience.
  • usage: "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"
  • synonyms: older
• Belonging to some prior time.
  • usage: "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
  • synonyms: erstwhile, former, onetime, one-time, quondam, sometime
• Used informally especially for emphasis. ()
  • usage: "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"
  • synonyms: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, sure-enough
• Of a very early stage in development.
  • usage: "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"
• Just preceding something else in time or order.
  • usage: "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"
  • synonyms: previous

• (superl.) Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.
• (superl.) Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
• (superl.) Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.
• (superl.) Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
• (superl.) Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.
• (superl.) Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.
• (superl.) Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.
• (superl.) Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.
• (n.) Open country.
• (superl.) More than enough; abundant.
• (superl.) Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and familiarity.
• (superl.) Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.