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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)

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"
  • 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"
  • Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .
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

noun

  • Geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon. (
    • usage: "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"
  • The product of two equal terms.
    • usage: "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
  • An open area at the meeting of two or more streets.
  • Something approximating the shape of a square.
  • Someone who doesn't understand what is going on.
  • A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.
  • Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles.
    • usage: "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
  • A hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles.
    • usage: "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"

verb

  • Make square.
    • usage: "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
  • Raise to the second power.
  • Cause to match, as of ideas or acts.
  • Position so as to be square.
    • usage: "He squared his shoulders"
  • Be compatible with.
    • usage: "one idea squares with another"
  • Pay someone and settle a debt.
    • usage: "I squared with him"
  • Turn the paddle; in canoeing.
  • Turn the oar, while rowing.

adjective

  • Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle.
    • usage: "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
  • Characterized by honesty and fairness.
    • usage: "straight dealing"; "a square deal"
  • Providing abundant nourishment.
    • usage: "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day"
  • Leaving no balance.
    • usage: "my account with you is now all square"
  • Without evasion or compromise.
    • usage: "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears"
  • Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned.

adverb

  • In a straight direct way.
    • usage: "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me"
  • In a square shape.
    • usage: "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square"
  • Firmly and solidly.
    • usage: "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"

square is an area of 100 square feet, in terminology referring to the size of a roof.