Basic vs Yesterday - What's the difference?
basic | yesterday |
Necessary, essential for life or some process.
Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
(slang) Vapid, boring, or uncool.
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A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
(military) Basic training.
The day immediately before today; one day ago.
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, passage=Yesterday , upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
The (recent) past, often disparaging.
* 1606 (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth) , 5.5
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
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As soon as possible
As an adjective basic
is basic.As a noun yesterday is
the day immediately before today; one day ago.As an adverb yesterday is
on the day before today.basic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.
- The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is purely basic .
- Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada / Them basic bitches wear that shit, so I don't even bother
Why Does Everyone Hate Anne Hathaway?", The Observer (University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College), Volume 46, Issue 101, 1 March 2013, page 11:
- I'm not saying people are jealous of Hathaway because she is so perfect. Yes, she does have it all — husband, healthy career, good looks. But she doesn't do anything in an "awesome" way. She's basic .
Firing Line: Rowling says ‘JK,’ Ron and Hermione not meant to be", The Daily Campus (Southern Methodist University), Volume 99, Issue 54, 3 February 2014, page 4:
- And what can be said about Ginny? She’s basic . My guess is that she spends her time drinking pumpkin spice lattes and watching “Pretty Little Liars.” The Chosen One is way out of her quidditch league.
Synonyms
* See also * (chemistry) alkalineAntonyms
* (chemistry) acidicDerived terms
* basically * BASICNoun
(en noun)- Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
- Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
Anagrams
* ----yesterday
English
Noun
(en noun)- All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday , of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}