Rudiment vs Thine - What's the difference?
rudiment | thine |
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.
(archaic) Singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy ).
(archaic) Singular second person possessive pronoun.
As a noun rudiment
is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).As a determiner thine is
(archaic) singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy ).As a pronoun thine is
(archaic) singular second person possessive pronoun.rudiment
English
(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.
