basic knowledge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandknowledge
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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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knowledge
noun
uk/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofbasicandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Abasicknowledgeof capitalism helps appreciate that the music industry is replete with the exploitation of musicians.
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Sections 2 to 5 assume onlybasicknowledgeof functional programming and are mostly applicable in any staticallytyped higher-order language.
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The book cannot be used as an introductory text as the reader should have abasicknowledgeof remote sensing.
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For simplicity, it would be appropriate to ignorebasicknowledgein cer tain areas.
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Students with somebasicknowledgeof chemistry and biology will have no problem understanding the principles involved.
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The children hadbasicknowledgeof reading but could not read independently.
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Results showed that very few men hadbasicknowledgein any of these areas.
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We still lack a general,basicknowledgeabout how much of the different types of housing there was.
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The book assumes abasicknowledgeof both linguistic theory and historical linguistics.
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The discipline of music acoustics should be capable of providing thisbasicknowledge.
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The factors associated with the likelihood of men'sbasicknowledgein these areas were explored.
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The chapters are generally well-written and referenced and could be easily followed by anyone with abasicknowledgeof microbiology.
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He states that, for the process-based approach to be successful, learners need to have abasicknowledgelevel.
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So what was lost was the passing on ofbasicknowledgeand skills, and there was less contact between girls and boys.
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Inevitably, such a wide range of topics requires some over-simplification, but there are odd inconsistencies in the depth ofbasicknowledgeassumed by the author.
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The first part of the book is a descriptive summary of depositional environments, and abasicknowledgeof sedimentology and facies analysis is assumed.
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The idea of an author lackingbasicknowledgeof his own protagonist contributes to the comic effect of this critique.
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Even when it is publicly available,basicknowledgeis not necessarily usable by scientists and technologists, unless they themselves have a feel for basic research.
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We are using baseflow data generated by the hydrologist andbasicknowledgeof watershed hydrology to estimate a regression model with the highest predictive power.
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Each chapter provides students with thebasicknowledgeand a taste of alternative interpretations essential for informed discussion.
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