What is "basically"

Usage examples of "basically".

Barbiturates Barbiturates are basically the opposite of amphetamines: that is, they act to depress the central nervous system.

What a berdache is, basically, is someone who adopts a gender other than their biological one.

One-time mountain bike racer, David was appointed for a two-year stint as second in command of the Royal Marine biathlon team, in which he is basically a full-time paid athlete who spends a lot of time on skis in Norway.

Steaming along came an ocean monitor, a bigger version of the river craft the USA and CSA both used: basically, one battleship turret mounted on a raft.

I sold The Good Times out on Campus Boul and was eventually recruited to distribute a rival publication called After Dark, basically a skin mag, whose cover each week featured a blurry color separation of an unclothed full-busted beauty whose smoky look smoldered above the fold in the vending machines where I placed the papers.

Basically, a process called metamorphism caused the basalts in Shenandoah to recrystallize with new minerals, such as chlorite, epidote, and albite, which help give the rocks their greenish hue.

Basically, Enron would make a massive bet on the timing of deregulation, with losses piling up until new rules came about.

The street was basically two rows of khaki tents, twenty-five of them in all, most of them housing four enrollees each.

The vaccine was basically weakened tubercle bacilli which were injected into the skin, then followed by injections of various drugs such as ethambutol, rifampicin, thiacetazone, and poyrazinamide, and sometimes streptomycin, isioniazid, and para-aminosalicylic acid.

Basically a giant Gelada baboon, with material from certain breeds of dog, from the hunting cats, and from human stock for intelligence, vocal cords, and a fully opposable thumb.

Naturally, I cannot state precisely how this gimmick works but I should imagine basically it works on the lines of a distorting mirror.

He was an orphan and some agency basically sold him to the Hickles, like a slave.

The political promises that Diefenbaker made during the 1962 campaign were basically different from the usual brand of hustings pledges.

Now, there is a hospital in Seattle that has a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which is basically used to decompress divers with the bends.

The CDC plan is basically quite simple: Identify those with smallpox, isolate them to keep them from infecting others, and vaccinate anyone with whom they may have come into contact.