(n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
(n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.
(n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.
(n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.
(n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.
(n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.
(n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.
(n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.
(n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression.
(n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.
(n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.
(n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan.
(n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.
(n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire
(n.) the conditions and movements of the air.
(n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.
(n.) The whole material composing the world.
(n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper.
(v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles.
(v. t.) To constitute; to make up with elements.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(2) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(3) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
(4) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(5) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(6) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(7) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
(8) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(9) It is concluded that selection against insertional mutations is unlikely to be the major factor involved in the containment of element abundance.
(10) We have investigated interactions between the erythroid transcription factor GATA-1 and factors binding two cis-acting elements commonly linked to GATA sites in erythroid control elements.
(11) Further, Tyr 20 is an important element of that sequence.
(12) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
(13) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(14) These data indicate that the sfrB gene product is a regulatory element, since the single gene product elicits the expression of genes for many products for F expression and lipopolysaccharide synthesis.
(15) Therefore, a hormonal regulatory element can discriminate among closely related transcription start sites.
(16) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(17) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
(18) Neither light nor electron microscopy revealed significant morphologic alterations in the cochlear elements of the exposed offspring.
(19) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(20) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
Motley
Definition:
(a.) Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.
(a.) Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1.
(n.) Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.
(n.) A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.
(n.) Hence, a jester, a fool.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the face of the reef’s impending doom a motley collection of ordinary Australians shared a common determination that something had to be done.
(2) The brief sub-section of article 26 could be devastating to efforts to prosecute narcotics gangs, and if it comes into force would undermine the security forces and legal system, according to Kimberley Motley, a lawyer with a practice in Kabul.
(3) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
(4) But few, including the motley coalition of political parties backing him, expect him to give up any power.
(5) It was these motley collections of dreamers and bean-counters who began constructing massive, complex systems for seemingly private communication inside games.
(6) Many said they were there to protest at Ukip's stance on immigration and the political backgrounds of Ukip's motley collection of local council candidates; others were there to protest against his party's obscure economic policies.
(7) I grew up in Europe in the late 1970s and 80s, and remember how the greens were dismissed by the mainstream media and political establishment as nothing more than a motley collection of ex-hippies with no understanding of real-world politics who coalesced around a single issue.
(8) "The law is not just [about] in-court testimony, but it says that witnesses cannot even be questioned, which takes a lot of authority away from the Afghan police, Afghan army, NDS [intelligence agency], and the attorney general's office," said Motley.
(9) No major international bodies are monitoring the vote, but a motley selection of observers from 23 countries have arrived of their own accord.
(10) The Hateful Eight , shot in 70mm and about a motley crew of 19th century bounty hunters and criminals who take refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass to shelter from a blizzard, no doubt hopes to make it a hat-trick.
(11) The Good Terrorist (1985) After two short novels under the pseudonym Jane Somers, Lessing returned to publishing under her own name with this story of a well-intentioned revolutionary, Alice, who lives in a north London squat with a motley bunch of fellow militants.
(12) The network’s chair, Tory county councillor Cecilia Motley, complained of a “tsunami of swingeing cuts” that would “make life for hundreds of thousands of people across all areas of rural England totally intolerable.” This angry grassroots reaction from the Tory shires has been awkward for the PM, for whom council cuts, for so long relatively unnoticed, at least among his affluent core support, appear to have become a liability.
(13) He said the committee was a “motley collection of amateurs” who would destroy Ukip.
(14) A motley battalion is trooping the colours in the snowy yard at the Cossack military school near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), nearly 1,000km south-east of Moscow.
(15) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
(16) Whether Manafort and the rest of Trump’s motley crew can pull something resembling a platform together ahead of the convention is anyone’s guess.
(17) It is an endless field of tiny wooden and perspex blocks, low-rise courtyards huddled cheek by jowl with a motley jumble of towers, expanding ever outwards in concentric rings.
(18) The motley contents of my baking cupboard – some flour, sugar, a handful of currants and a few crusty tins of syrup – are hardly inspiring, but I've vowed not to leave the house until the weather brightens.
(19) A few weeks later a motley group of radical rightwing European populists turned up in Crimea to watch its hastily arranged “referendum”.
(20) It is worth noting also that the official observers for this sham display of democracy were a motley collection of Putin apologists and – ironically given all the fury over "fascists" in Kiev – members of far-right parties.