Horse vs Basic - What's the difference?

As a noun horse

is a poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand or horse can be (variant of basketball).

As an adjective basic is

basic.

horse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.

#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

#*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses', carriage-'''horses''', and cart-' horses , without taking the least notice of them.

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#(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.

# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.

#(lb) A large person.

#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

(lb) Equipment with legs.

#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.

#A frame with legs, used to support something.

Equipment.

#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

#A breastband for a leadsman.

#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

#A jackstay.

#:(Totten)

(lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

*1962 , , 00:15:20

*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).

Usage notes

* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarse

Synonyms

* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knight

Hyponyms

* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallion

Derived terms

* change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horse

Verb

(hors)

To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)

"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.

* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :

I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.

To provide with a horse.

* Shakespeare

being better horsed , outrode me

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

* 1888 , :

He horsed himself well.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

* 1608 , , II. i. 203:

Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

To take or carry on the back.

* S. Butler

the keeper, horsing a deer

To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone

So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.

Derived terms

* horse around * unhorse

Etymology 2

Noun

(-)

(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.

Alright, mate, got any horse ?

Synonyms

* (heroin) H, smack

External links

* (wikipedia "horse")

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basic

English

Adjective

(en 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 .

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

(slang) Vapid, boring, or uncool.

* 2011 , (Kreayshawn), "(Gucci Gucci)", (w, Somethin' 'Bout Kreay) :

Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada / Them basic bitches wear that shit, so I don't even bother

* 2013 , Sam Stryker, " 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 .

* 2014 , Trevor Thrall, " 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) alkaline

Antonyms

* (chemistry) acidic

Derived terms

* basically * BASIC

Noun

(en 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.

(military) Basic training.

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