Basics
WordNet
noun
(1) Principles from which other truths can be derived
"First you must learn the fundamentals"
"Let's get down to basics"
(2) A statement of fundamental facts or principles
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
- Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
- An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
- Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
- basic training.
Adjective
- necessary, essential for life or some process.
- Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.
- elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
- The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is purely basic.
- Of or pertaining to a base; antonym of acidic