basic training | the initial period of training for new military personnel, involves intense physical activity and behavioral discipline |
basic staple | (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant |
basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
instinct inherent aptitude | inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli, the spawning instinct in salmon, altruistic instincts in social animals |
basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge |
fundamentals basics fundamental principle basic principle bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
basic assumption constatation self-evident truth | an assumption that is basic to an argument |
Basic English | a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication, devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards |
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 |
death instinct death wish Thanatos | (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die |
caveman cave man cave dweller troglodyte | someone who lives in a cave |
basic dye basic color basic colour | a dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion |
basic iron | pig iron containing a high percentage of phosphorus, used in making steel by a process that removes the phosphorus |
basic slag | slag produced in making steel, low in silica but having large amounts of calcium phosphate, useful as fertilizer |
basic | of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base |
basic introductory | serving as a base or starting point, a basic course in Russian, basic training for raw recruits, a set of basic tools, an introductory art course |
instinct(p) replete(p) | (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated, imbued with the spirit of the Reformation, words instinct with love, it is replete with misery |
basic | pertaining to or constituting a base or basis, a basic fact, the basic ingredients, basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities |
basic canonic canonical | reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality, a basic story line, a canonical syllable pattern |