basic ingredient

collocation in English

meaningsofbasicandingredient

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basic
adjective
uk
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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ingredient
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/us
/ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/
a food that is used with other foods in the preparation of a ...
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(Definition ofbasicandingredientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Mathematical modeling is abasicingredientof research in practically every domain of science and engineering.
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Samson stated that the challenge has then been to find models of computation which take interaction as theirbasicingredient.
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That is abasicingredienton which everything else feeds.
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Surely we must assume that there is somebasicingredientin this apparently insoluble problem which no governments have yet identified.
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Confidence is abasicingredientof both the voluntary and the charitable sector.
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Coal is thebasicingredientin the production of electricity, in hydrogenation, in the manufacture of by-pro- ducts and of chemicals and of gas.
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It produces only a certain amount of iron ore, thebasicingredientof steel, to the scale of about 500,000 tons a year.
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Thebasicingredientis how to remove fear.
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Of course, sugar comes into costs as abasicingredientof almost every food and drink that is manufactured in this country.
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However, it is still abasicingredientof a church that it is a body of people.
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In the first place, thebasicingredientof economic competitiveness in this country will depend on an increasing number of people being trained in mathematics and science.
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Thebasicingredientis one of valid and voluntary consent—their choice by right—with an absolute right to refuse, whether because the suggested partner or the timing is wrong for them.
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It may be that there are qualities in tobacco, somebasicingredientof tobacco which creates this addiction and craving, for which there may be no substitute.
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But when it comes to thebasicingredientin a housing programme, namely land, they object because they desire to preserve the open spaces around their wealthy constituents.
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Peruvian cuisine is often made spicy with "aj" pepper, abasicingredient.
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The contestants have to invent a dish whosebasicingredientwill be paneer.
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At a fundamental level, it is the private sector that drives economic growthabasicingredientin poverty alleviation.
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Alumschist, thebasicingredientin the process, was mined in the area.
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