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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
elementary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beginners’/elementary/intermediate/advanced class (=teaching different levels of a subject)
▪ An advanced class might be available.
a high school/elementary school student American English
▪ Her son is a high school student.
an elementary/intermediate/advanced course
▪ an advanced course in art and design
basic/elementary precautions
▪ Your home could be at risk if you don't take some basic precautions.
elementary particle
elementary school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ Only in their most elementary courses do other academic fields offer even a partial parallel.
▪ The workers' ignorance compounds their poverty: everywhere, failure to follow the most elementary rules of diet makes undernourishment worse.
▪ The most elementary lessons involved in studying ideas and consciousness seem to have been forgotten.
▪ Figure 1 shows several of the most elementary transformations together with the rules that generate them.
▪ Because otherwise we shall not even have the most elementary preconditions for this development ... By all means!
▪ The most elementary form of camouflage is to match the background perfectly.
▪ The process is difficult, and demands the performance of millions of calculations to reach even the most elementary prediction.
▪ The most elementary way is to leave the material on its original sheets of blotting paper, piling them up on top of each other.
■ NOUN
education
▪ Then, at last, elementary education will dies.
▪ The specialists in elementary education meanwhile focus their attention on the methods and materials appropriate to elementary years.
▪ They spend six years in elementary education and three years in junior high school.
▪ In Brown v. Board of Education, which dealt specifically with elementary education, the Court took the final logical step.
▪ It is no use trying to give technical teaching to our artisans without elementary education ....
▪ There was universal elementary education in Britain - a century behind Prussia, and three behind Saxony.
▪ Hence there was an extension of the powers of local government and the state intervened after 1870 to provide universal elementary education.
▪ There was no association of elementary education with a prescribed period of childhood.
level
▪ At the elementary level of existence, many of them were desperate for basic necessities.
particle
▪ However, I think that this ought to include a revision of the names of all the elementary particles.
▪ According to quantum theory, elementary particles do not really exist until an intelligent observer measures them.
▪ Quantum mechanics depicts space as a seething foam of uncertainty, with unimaginably short-lived elementary particles appearing and disappear ing.
▪ At any one moment, there is a definite and finite set of possible futures for elementary particles.
▪ So the question is: What are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made?
▪ The elementary particles known as protons, which live at the heart of every atom, will begin to decay.
▪ Research in theory and computation encompasses quantum field theories of elementary particles, neural networks and quantum chromodynamics.
▪ How powerful this explosion would be would depend on how many different species of elementary particles there are.
principle
▪ Technology and society generally is continuously in trouble because this elementary principle is forgotten or ignored by enthusiastic innovators.
school
▪ Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school, about which I remember only three things.
▪ Education researchers have traced her poorer performance all the way back to elementary school.
▪ The Education Act of 1870 set out to provide elementary schools for children up to a minimum age of ten throughout the country.
▪ Optimal practice in elementary school language arts will have similar balance.
▪ They studied third-and fourth-grade children at two elementary schools.
▪ Some of the elite kindergartens and elementary schools also protest the advent of baby cram schools even while admitting their young alumni.
▪ Big money will now be poured into cleansing the elementary schools of anti-phonics heresy.
▪ What we learn in elementary school sets the foundation for a life of learning.
student
▪ Even elementary students in fourth and fifth grades have guns.
▪ Modular buildings could also be placed on the La Cima site to house elementary students.
▪ A Hartford school lunch costs 90 cents for elementary students, $ 1. 15 at middle and high schools.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
elementary education
▪ an elementary course in word-processing
▪ Billy is taking elementary algebra this year.
▪ She had difficulty with even the most elementary tasks.
▪ The right to defend itself is an elementary right of every state.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How powerful this explosion would be would depend on how many different species of elementary particles there are.
▪ In many elementary classrooms there is a good deal of affection for children and various opportunities for active, hands-on learning.
▪ Most were given elementary training in another technical skill to facilitate harmony and cross-utilization.
▪ So the question is: What are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made?
▪ The 1988 Education Reform Act ought to mark the end of elementary education for the under-11s.
▪ Thom identifies seven elementary catastrophes as the only possible results when not more than four control factors are present.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elementary

Elementary \El`e*men"ta*ry\, a. [L. elementarius: cf. F.

  1. Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

  2. Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.

  3. Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire. ``Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region.''
    --J. Spencer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
elementary

late 14c., "having the nature of one of the four elements," from Middle French elementaire and directly from Latin elementarius "belonging to the elements or rudiments," from elementum (see element). Meaning "rudimentary, involving first principles" is from 1540s; meaning "simple" is from 1620s. In elementary school (1841) it has the "rudimentary" sense.

Wiktionary
elementary

a. 1 Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something. 2 Relating to an elementary school. 3 (context physics English) Relating to a subatomic particle.

WordNet
elementary
  1. adj. easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic]

  2. of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing" [syn: primary]

Wikipedia
Elementary

Elementary may refer to:

Elementary (The End album)

Elementary is the third and final album released by the Canadian band The End. This album is a departure from their mathcore sound present on their first two albums and is more rock-oriented, featuring lighter melodies and clean vocals mixed with growling.

Elementary (Cindy Morgan album)

Elementary is the seventh album from Contemporary Christian music singer Cindy Morgan.

Elementary (TV series)

Elementary is an American procedural drama series that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes. The series was created by Robert Doherty and stars Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson. The series premiered on CBS on September 27, 2012. The series is set and filmed primarily in New York City.

The show follows Holmes, a recovering drug addict and former consultant to Scotland Yard, as he assists the New York City Police Department in solving crimes. His indifference to police procedure often leads to conflict with Captain Thomas Gregson ( Aidan Quinn), although the two still remain mutually respectful of one another. He is accompanied by Dr. Joan Watson, who initially acts as his sober companion. She is a former surgeon and was hired by Sherlock's father to help him in his rehabilitation. They eventually begin to work together on his cases, and she becomes Holmes' apprentice. The series also features Holmes' ongoing conflict with his nemesis Jamie Moriarty ( Natalie Dormer). Other supporting roles include Jon Michael Hill as Detective Marcus Bell, Rhys Ifans as Sherlock's brother, Mycroft Holmes and John Noble as Sherlock's father, Morland Holmes.

Before the series premiered, it was met with some criticism given it followed closely on the heels of the BBC's modern adaptation Sherlock. After the premiere, it was picked up for a full season and later an extra two episodes. The season two premiere was partly filmed on location in London. The series has since been well received by critics, who have praised the performances, writing, and novel approach to the source material. On March 25, 2016, CBS renewed the series for a fifth season, which is set to premiere on October 2, 2016.

Usage examples of "elementary".

I were walking side by side now, talking about Aceta, the Cenons, and stuff, making changes in how the story went to suit the new ideas we had, which were displacing old elementary school stuff.

He was unable to meet even the most elementary qualification: a belief in Akha and a proof of regular sacrifices to the god.

High-school teachers, unlike those in elementary school, did not have as a part of their duties the furthering of the process of Americanization that began with fingernail inspections in the first grade.

Once that state has been achieved, they are collided with heavy nuclei, resulting in a spray of elementary particles that includes antiprotons, antielectrons, and antineutrons.

Little in mathematics beyond the elementary level of calculus of variations, and nothing at all about Banach algebra or Riemannian manifolds.

Receiving an ordinary elementary education at a school, taught by an enthusiastic Cameronian, he was apprenticed in his eleventh year to his eldest brother James as a stone-mason.

This coeducational boarding school, trying particularly to attract pupils from the public elementary school and to combine secondary education with practical training for country life, was probably the most important and interesting scheme Lady Warwick ever started.

Skelly Wright slapped a restraining order on the entire state legislature and ordered the entry of four black girls to formerly all-white elementary schools, the first public-school desegregation in the Deep South.

So now, if possible, Kevin Peterson had even more admirers, as the populations of Dixieland Elementary School and Robert E.

Creator has ordained that the elementary bodies shall be composed of mingled elements, therefore arc their harmonies and discordancies remarkable, as we may know from their qualities.

Given some moderately sophisticated mathematical concepts--which could be built up from elementary ideas based on integer exemplars--quantum graphs were far easier to talk about than anything as abstract and contingent as social structures.

Harding resolved, in consequence, to make his observation from Prospect Heights, taking into consideration its height above the level of the sea--a height which he intended to calculate next day by a simple process of elementary geometry.

Price was the last teacher I had in elementary school who did her hair in a helmetlike sprayed bouffant.

His understanding of what the Book of Mormon predicted about artifacts left by the Lamanites and the Nephites was perfunctory, even elementary.

His elementary education was conducted at the schools of his native town, and afterwards at the manse of Mearns, a rural parish in Renfrewshire, under the superintendence of Dr Maclatchie, the parochial clergyman.