Basic vs. Working — What's the Difference?

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

Performing work

An essential, fundamental element or entity

Operating or functioning as required

Basic training.

Having a paying job; employed

Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental

Spent at work

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

Taken while continuing to work

Of or relating to a base.

Sufficient to allow action

Containing a base, especially in excess of acid.

Adequate for practical use

Alkaline.

Serving as a basis or guide for further work

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

The manner in which something operates or functions

(Slang) Unthinkingly or blandly conformist

The parts of a mine or quarry that have been or are being excavated.

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

Operation; action.

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

Method of operation.

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

(arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.

(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

Fermentation.

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.

(of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.

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

A place where work is carried on.

(military) Basic training.

(countable) A train movement.

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

Present participle of work

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

That is or are functioning.

An artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.

That suffices but requires additional work.

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

In paid employment.

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

Of or relating to employment.

Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;

Enough to allow one to use something.

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

Used in real life; practical.

Of primary importance;

(obsolete) Efficacious.

Serving as a base or starting point;

A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

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

Actively engaged in paid work;

Adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something;

Adopted as a temporary basis for further work;

(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing;

Serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity;