Basic and Portion

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

• Something determined in relation to something that includes it.
  • usage: "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
  • synonyms: part, component part, component, constituent
• Something less than the whole of a human artifact.
  • usage: "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
  • synonyms: part
• The allotment of some amount by dividing something.
  • usage: "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians"
  • synonyms: parcel, share
• Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group.
  • usage: "he wanted his share in cash"
  • synonyms: share, part, percentage
• Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you. )
  • usage: "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
  • synonyms: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances
• Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage.
  • synonyms: dowry, dowery, dower
• An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal.
  • usage: "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"
  • synonyms: helping, serving

verb

• Give out.
  • usage: "We were assigned new uniforms"
  • synonyms: assign, allot

• (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
• (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• (v.t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
• (n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• (n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
• (v.t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
• (n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.