Basic vs. Essential

Basic and Essential Definitions
Basic
A widely used programming language that is designed to be easy to learn.
Essential
Constituting or being part of the nature or essence of something; inherent
"In that era of general good will ... few Americans doubted the essential goodness of their society" (David Halberstam).
Basic
An essential, fundamental element or entity
The basics of math.
Essential
Fundamentally important or necessary
Essential ingredients.
Basic
Basic training.
Essential
(Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown
Essential hypertension.
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Basic
Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental
“Basic changes in public opinion often occur because of shifts in concerns and priorities” (Atlantic).
Essential
(Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet
Essential amino acids.
Basic
Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis
A basic course in Russian.
A set of basic woodworking tools.
Essential
Something fundamental.
Basic
Of or relating to a base.
Essential
Something necessary or indispensable.
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Basic
Containing a base, especially in excess of acid.
Essential
Necessary.
Basic
Alkaline.
Essential
Very important; of high importance.
Basic
(Geology) Containing little silica, as certain igneous rocks.
Essential
(biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
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Basic
(Slang) Unthinkingly or blandly conformist
“Even someone who looks really indie … can be basic if they are simply imitating others rather than thinking for themselves” (Chelsea Rickling).
Essential
Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
Basic
Necessary, essential for life or some process.
Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.
Essential
Really existing; existent.
Basic
Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.
Essential
(geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
Difference between 1 and 2
Basic
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
Essential
(medicine) Idiopathic.
Essential blepharospasm
Basic
(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
Essential
Having the nature of essence; not physical.
Basic
A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
Essential
A necessary ingredient.
Basic
An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
I know the basics of sailing and would love to learn more.
Essential
A fundamental ingredient.
Basic
(military) Basic training.
The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.
Essential
Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.
Basic
Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
Essential
Hence, really existing; existent.
Is it true, that thou art but a name,And no essential thing?
Basic
Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
Essential
Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
Judgment's more essential to a generalThan courage.
How to live? - that is the essential question for us.
Basic
An artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.
Essential
Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
Basic
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
Essential
Necessary; indispensable; - said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
Basic
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
Essential
Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
Basic
Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;
A basic fact
The basic ingredients
Basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities
Essential
Existence; being.
Basic
Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality;
A basic story line
A canonical syllable pattern
Essential
That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials of religion.
Basic
Of primary importance;
Basic truths
Essential
Anything indispensable;
Food and shelter are necessities of life
The essentials of the good life
Allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained
Basic
Serving as a base or starting point;
A basic course in Russian
Basic training for raw recruits
A set of basic tools
An introductory art course
Essential
Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary;
Essential tools and materials
Funds essential to the completion of the project
An indispensable worker
Basic
Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
Essential
Basic and fundamental;
The essential feature
Essential
Of the greatest importance;
The all-important subject of disarmament
Crucial information
In chess cool nerves are of the essence
Essential
Being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc;
Essential oil
Essential
Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right;
Substantive law
Essential
Absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed