Basic vs. Elementary — What's the Difference?

A widely used programming language that is designed to be easy to learn.

Of, relating to, or constituting the basic, essential, or fundamental part

An essential, fundamental element or entity

Of, relating to, or involving the fundamental or simplest aspects of a subject

Basic training.

Of or relating to an elementary school or elementary education

Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental

Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.

Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis

Relating to an elementary school.

Of or relating to a base.

(physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.

Containing a base, especially in excess of acid.

(archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.

Alkaline.

An elementary school

(Geology) Containing little silica, as certain igneous rocks.

A supernatural being which is associated with the elements.

(Slang) Unthinkingly or blandly conformist

Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.

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

Easy and not involved or complicated;

(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

Of or being the essential or basic part;

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.

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

(military) Basic training.

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

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

An artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.

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

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

Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;

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

Of primary importance;

Serving as a base or starting point;

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