elemental
元素,元素性的,元素性,元素的
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Definitions
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- : of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple; uncompounded.
- : pertaining to rudiments or first principles.
- : starkly simple, primitive, or basic: a spare, elemental prose style; hate, lust, and other elemental emotions.
- : pertaining to the agencies, forces, or phenomena of physical nature: elemental gods.
- : comparable to the great forces of nature, as in power or magnitude: elemental grandeur.
- : of, relating to, or of the nature of the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, or of any one of them.
- : pertaining to chemicalelements.
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Examples
I have never had to deal with alkaline soil, but a few farmers have told me the fastest way to correct it is a heavy application of elemental sulfur.
So Jupiter’s elemental recipe should resemble the sun’s — at least for elements that were gases.
Running fast, jumping high, and throwing objects a long way are elemental human pursuits at the core of many other sports like soccer, football, and basketball.
In the early 2000s, Seattle’s boosters marketed the city with an ad campaign called “Metronatural,” showing a kayak atop a car on a downtown street to sell the idea that the great outdoors was elemental to life there.
By analyzing the star’s elemental makeup, which is like a star’s genetic instruction book, astronomers peered back into the star’s family history.
The word primitive does not do justice to the elemental nature of dining in one of the great barbecue parlors of this region.
Instead, like millions of her generation who remember a land before loss, what she really wants is something more elemental.
"It's all very elemental," is how designer Phillip Lim described his Spring/Summer 2014 collection.
He returned medicine to its most elemental form—a profession that tries to help out someone who is sick.
Yet it does point out how elemental health and health care are—for both citizens and those running for election.