adj (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
adj (slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
n A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
n An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
n (military) Basic training.
n Any of a family of third-generation programming languages (c.1964 on).
n A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
n (attributive) Initialism of Brazil, South Africa, India and China. [A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil.]
n Initialism of British American Security Information Council.