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Rudiment vs Fundament - What's the difference?

rudiment | fundament |

As nouns the difference between rudiment and fundament

is that rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural) while fundament is foundation.

rudiment

English

(wikipedia rudiment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
    • We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
  • Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
    • I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
  • * Milton
    • But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
  • * I. Taylor
    • The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
  • (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.

    • Hypernyms

    * (biology) vestigiality

    Derived terms

    * rudimental * rudimentary

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    fundament

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Foundation.
  • The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
  • * 1703 , Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized :
    • It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament , and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
  • * 1861 , Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies. , page 119
    • ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck...
  • * 1864 , Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well , page 9
    • Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament , beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.
  • * 2008 , Eric Summers , Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West , page 38[http://books.google.com/books?id=0BVYlikE-bgC&pg=PA38&dq=fundament]:
    • I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament .
  • The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

    • Related terms

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