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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
elemental
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
diet
▪ Six prospective randomised trials have evaluated the efficacy of elemental diets in Crohn's disease.
▪ The rate of relapse in elemental diet treated patients was higher than in those who had gained remission with prednisolone.
▪ During the early phase of reintroductions patients continued with elemental diet as a nutritional supplement.
▪ The subsequent relapse rate after elemental diet induced remission, however, is greater than after treatment with prednisolone.
▪ In conclusion, this study confirms that four weeks treatment with elemental diet, when tolerated, is as effective as prednisolone.
▪ In another trial this type of diet was as effective as an elemental diet in inducing remission in active Crohn's disease.
▪ In three of them, this diet was as effective as an elemental diet in achieving remission.
▪ Unlike previous studies comparing elemental diet with corticosteroids, in this trial we have stratified patients according to nutritional state before randomisation.
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▪ Earlier relapse after elemental diet treatment has also been noted in paediatric patients.
▪ He was referred in 1984 and had a full clinical remission with elemental diet and began single food reintroductions.
▪ He was seized by an elemental hunger but made himself eat slowly.
▪ The air filled with the strong scent of herbs being burned to discourage elemental spirits.
▪ The unique features for elemental analysis are the direct monitoring of surface hydrogen and the extreme sensitivity to the outermost atomic layers.
▪ They were also closely related, if not to the survival, at least to the elemental comforts of man.
▪ Twenty two patients were randomised to receive elemental diet and 20 to receive prednisolone.
▪ When you reduce some-thing to its most elemental state, its nuclear core, you can generalize from there.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elemental

Elemental \El`e*men"tal\ ([e^]l`[-e]*m[e^]n"tal), a.

  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. ``Elemental strife.''
    --Pope.

  2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. ``The elemental rules of erudition.''
    --Cawthorn.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
elemental

late 15c., "pertaining to the four elements," from Medieval Latin elementalis, from Latin elementum (see element). Meaning "pertaining to the powers of nature" is from 1823. The noun in the occult sense "a spirit of the elements" is from 1877. Related: Elementally.

Wiktionary
elemental

a. 1 (context chemistry English) of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound) 2 basic, fundamental or elementary 3 of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water 4 (context by extension English) of, or relating to a force or nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions n. (context fantasy English) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.

WordNet
elemental
  1. adj. being or resembling a force of nature; "elemental violence"

  2. being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple" [syn: ultimate]

  3. relating to or being an element; "elemental sulphur"

  4. relating to severe atmospheric conditions; "a race against hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe"- J.K.Howard

Wikipedia
Elemental

An elemental is a mythic being described in occult and alchemical works from around the time of the European Renaissance and particularly elaborated in the 16th century works of Paracelsus. There are four elemental categories: gnomes, undines, sylphs, and salamanders. These correspond to the Classical elements of antiquity: earth, water, air and fire. Aether (quintessence) was not assigned an elemental. Terms employed for beings associated with alchemical elements vary by source and gloss.

Elemental (disambiguation)

Elemental is a creature formed entirely of one of the classical elements in jainism, mysticism, alchemy, mythology and modern fantasy fiction.

Elemental may also refer to:

Elemental (The Fixx album)

Elemental is the seventh studio album by British new wave band The Fixx, released in 1998.

Elemental (music group)

Elemental is a hip-hop group from Zagreb, Croatia, featuring Mirela Priselac Remi, one of Croatia's few female rappers.

Elemental (Loreena McKennitt album)

Elemental is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt and the vehicle with which she launched the Quinlan Road label. The album was recorded in one week in July 1985 and released later in the year. The studio was in a barn in southern Ontario and situated in a field of sunflowers.

Elemental (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, an elemental is a type of creature. Elemental creatures are composed of one of the four classical elementals of air, earth, fire, or water.

Elemental (Cobalt 60 album)

Elemental is the first album by electronic band Cobalt 60, a side-project of Front 242's Jean-Luc De Meyer.

Elemental (Tears for Fears album)

Elemental is the fourth album by the British pop band Tears for Fears. It was released on 7 June 1993 and includes the hit single " Break It Down Again". The album peaked at No. 5 in the UK and No. 45 in the US. It also reached the Top 10 in France and Italy, the Top 20 in Canada and the Top 30 in several European countries. It has been certified Silver in the UK, and Gold in the US and France.

Elemental was the first new Tears for Fears album in four years, following 1989's The Seeds of Love. However, despite being released under the Tears for Fears moniker, it was essentially a solo effort by Roland Orzabal as Curt Smith had left the band by this time. For much of the writing and recording, Orzabal was assisted by Alan Griffiths, who had been a session musician for Tears For Fears' world tour in 1985, and Tim Palmer who was brought in as producer for the project. It was recorded at Orzabal's newly built home studio, Neptune's Kitchen, which was mentioned in the song "Fish Out of Water".

Elemental was the last album that Tears For Fears recorded for the Phonogram/ Mercury label, whom the band had been signed to since 1981.

Elemental (video game)

Elemental is an action- strategy video game developed and designed by Erick Dupuis in 1988. In this game, the player controls a green ball which freely evolves on the stage and which is pursued by two other balls. The first one is invincible and the player can only evade it using the environment to put some distance between them or by staying on one of the four "safe point" of the stage. The other follow the same rules but it can also be stuck in holes present in the stage while following the green ball. In this case, another one will appear and continue following the player.

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Elemental (Cesium 137 album)

Elemental is the second full studio album by the electronic body music/ futurepop band, Cesium_137. Released in 2004, it was the first release by the band after a three-year break.

Elemental (film)

Elemental is a 2012 documentary film directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri Roshan. The film premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 9, 2012 in Mill Valley, California.

Elemental (Demdike Stare album)

Elemental is a compilation album by Demdike Stare, released on February 27, 2012 by Modern Love Records. It compiles the group's last three EPs, including Chrysanthe & Violetta, Rose and Iris.

Usage examples of "elemental".

This is the elemental form of polyalphabetic substitution, for it exhibits all at once all the cipher alphabets in a particular system.

The second beast, though, our Antichrist, is an earth elemental, and that means human, since humans were made from the dust of the Earth.

It would be useless to tell of his summers in Argyllshire and among the inner isles, his intimacy with fishermen who were as elemental as his own dreams of old time.

Then, with a deep breath, she brought the ship up sharply, describing a great loop that took Bruja out of its present position, static relative to the powerful elemental symbols, and brought it down so that the symbols had changed position relative to the ship.

They were invisible, clots of air itself, Cutter realised, thrown down from the fight above, the torn-off meat of an air elemental discarded by an implacable air golem, the hands of a golem bitten through by a frantic luftgeist.

It contains almost no fats or sugars and lots of protein and complex carbohydrates because it is made from three elemental ingredients: flour, water, and salt.

Ahead lay the confluence of elemental flows, a mixing of channels draining from both the Northern and Southern Fangs.

Other glassmaking slaves tell Tirzah that her unusual skill is a gift from elemental spirits, the Soulenai, who inhabit glass and other natural substances.

Rather it is WARRE in the elemental, Hobbesian sense of the word, by far the most important form of armed conflict in our time.

Of the corporeal thus brought into being by Nature the elemental materials of things are its very produce, but how do animal and vegetable forms stand to it?

These deceived innocents, these elementals who go about with poison around their necks, have had the choices taken from them.

With each deep breath, the warm male scent of Catlin reassured her in an elemental way that she neither understood nor questioned.

No, Shakti sought another, lesser-known place: the elemental plane of water.

Wall, and west toward Raj Ahten, even as their fell mage and her companions raised their staves and sent bolts of ice whirling into the elementals.

Their blades and staves reflected firelight from the elementals at their backs.