Basic and Sheer

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

verb

• Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.
  • usage: "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
  • synonyms: swerve, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut
• Cause to sheer.
  • usage: "She sheered her car around the obstacle"

adjective

• Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers.
  • usage: "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
  • synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down
• Not mixed with extraneous elements.
  • usage: "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
  • synonyms: plain, unmingled, unmixed
• Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front.
  • usage: "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock"
  • synonyms: bluff, bold
• So thin as to transmit light.
  • usage: "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
  • synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby

adverb

• Straight up or down without a break.
  • synonyms: perpendicularly
• Directly.
  • usage: "he fell sheer into the water"

• (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
• (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
• (v.i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
• (v.i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
• (v.i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
• (v.i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
• (n.) A turn or change in a course.
• (n.) Shears See Shear.
• (adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
• (v.t.) To shear.
• (v.i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.