Intermediate vs. Basic — What's the Difference?

Coming between two things in time, place, character, etc.

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

An intermediate thing.

An essential, fundamental element or entity

Act as intermediary; mediate

Basic training.

Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state

Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental

One that is in a middle position or state.

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

An intermediary.

Of or relating to a base.

(Chemistry) A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product.

Containing a base, especially in excess of acid.

An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact.

Alkaline.

To act as an intermediary; mediate.

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

To intervene.

(Slang) Unthinkingly or blandly conformist

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

Anything in an intermediate position.

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

An intermediary.

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

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.

(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

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

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.

(military) Basic training.

Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.

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

To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

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

A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.

An artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.

Something that is intermediate.

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

A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called synthetic intermediate, intermediate compound or intermediate product; - contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses.

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

A substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;

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

Lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;

Of primary importance;

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;

Serving as a base or starting point;

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