Basic and Small

basic

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

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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

small

Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
- usage: "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
- synonyms: little
Limited in size or scope.
- usage: "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
- synonyms: minor, modest, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized
Of children and animals. ( young, immature)
- usage: "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
- synonyms: little
Slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope.
- usage: "a series of death struggles with small time in between"
Low or inferior in station or quality.
- usage: "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
- synonyms: humble, low, lowly, modest
Lowercase.
- usage: "little a"; "small a"; "e. E. Cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
- synonyms: little, minuscule
Of a voice. ( faint)
- usage: "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
- synonyms: little
Have fine or very small constituent particles.
- usage: "a small misty rain"
Not large but sufficient in size or amount.
- usage: "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
- synonyms: modest
Made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth. )
- usage: "her comments made me feel small"
- synonyms: belittled, diminished

(n.) Smallclothes.
(superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
(adv.) In or to small extent, quantity or degree; little; slightly.
(superl.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
(adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
(superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
(n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
(superl.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
(v.t.) To make little or less.
(n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
(superl.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary