Basic vs. Alkaline

Basicadjective

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

Basicadjective

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

Basicadjective

(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.

Basicadjective

(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

Basicnoun

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.

Basicnoun

An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.

Basicnoun

(military) Basic training.

Basicadjective

Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

Basicadjective

Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.

Basicnoun

an artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.

Basicnoun

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

Basicnoun

(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

Basicadjective

pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;

Basicadjective

reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality;

Basicadjective

of primary importance;

Basicadjective

serving as a base or starting point;

Basicadjective

of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

Alkalinenoun

An alkaline battery.

Alkalineadjective

Of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases.

Alkalineadjective

(chemistry) Having a pH greater than 7.

Alkalineadjective

Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.

Alkalineadjective

relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7;