Elementary vs Rudiment - What's the difference?
elementary | rudiment |
Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
Relating to an elementary school.
(physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
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(archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
* Shakespeare
Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
* Milton
* I. Taylor
(biology) A body part that no longer has a function
(music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
As an adjective elementary
is relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.As a noun rudiment is
a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).elementary
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
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*rudiment
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(wikipedia rudiment)Noun
(en noun)- We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
- This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
- I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
- But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
- The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
