basic

IPA: bˈeɪsɪk

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
(military) Basic training.
Any of a family of third-generation programming languages (c.1964 on).
A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
(attributive) Initialism of Brazil, South Africa, India and China. [A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.]
Initialism of British American Security Information Council.

Examples of "basic" in Sentences

Grisanti said he could not deny anyone what he called basic rights.
So that families are spending a lot more on what you describe as the basic nut.
Nathaniel Kleitman gave the name "basic rest activity cycle" to the 90-minute period at night during which we move through the five stages of sleep.
But at the end of the day, if you can't get there for what we term basic services, which is education, health care and corrections, then what option is there?
He returned H-P to what he calls the basic "blocking and tackling" of getting products out on time, improving quality and service, and increasing profit margins.
It was what she calls her "basic venality" and desire to eat more decadently that led her through a succession of baroque fungus forays and conferences in search of satisfaction.
I was shocked when I became shadow minister to find that the percentage of our education aid that was going to what we call basic education, which is mainly primary education, had fallen.