What's the difference between elementary and rudimentary?

Elementary


Definition:

  • (a.) Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
  • (a.) Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
  • (2) Inclusion-forming and non-inclusion-forming elementary bodies focused in one band at pI 4.64.
  • (3) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
  • (4) The aim of this program is to prevent dental caries by a weekly mouthrinsing by elementary school students.
  • (5) I knew I was gay since I was in elementary school, but I wanted to serve my country,” Gravett said.
  • (6) Because the clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia has not generally been an adequate phenotypic marker to detect the genes that convey risk for schizophrenia, efforts have been directed toward the identification of more elementary neuronal dysfunctions in schizophrenic patients and their families.
  • (7) Hours later, Trump arrived at his designated polling site, PS 59 elementary school in Manhattan, where more than 80 voters were lined up in the dark before voting opened at 6am.
  • (8) Elementary spherical particles similar to those described in the mitochondria are found in isolated rat liver and spleen nuclear membranes.
  • (9) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (10) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (11) The questionnaires were completed by the parents of 1000 unscreened elementary school children attending the third, fourth, and fifth grades.
  • (12) This article describes a mini-unit to help teachers prevent molestation of elementary school children.
  • (13) This quantal emission of the synaptic transmitter molecules (about 5000-10 000) is the elementary unit of the transmission process from one neuron to another.
  • (14) Their opinion is that elementary microsurgical technique and routine could be obtained only in the experimental laboratory.
  • (15) The microfibril has been constructed by convolution of th elementary fibril with a two dimensional point lattice.
  • (16) Tracey Iglehart, a teacher at Rosa Parks elementary school in Berkeley, California, did not expect Donald Trump to show up on the playground.
  • (17) In the mid-elementary school-aged child the decentering process emphasized by Piaget, together with the emerging capacity for making allowance for the context within which events occur, leads to the dyadic relationship being seen by the child as being mediated through the transactions of two autonomous mental apparatuses.
  • (18) Single intermediate bodies and no elementary bodies were observed.
  • (19) Elementary school children were susceptible to measles because they were born after the last major outbreak, but before measles vaccine was locally available.
  • (20) The new fourth generation of equipment presented here is characterized by considerably increased flexibility in dose delivery through the use of scanned elementary electron and photon beams of very high quality.

Rudimentary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
  • (a.) Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The coronary arterial anatomy in 26 univentricular hearts, its relation to the morphologic characteristics of the ventricles and rudimentary chambers, and its surgical implications were analyzed.
  • (2) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
  • (3) Arterial complications are usually associated with cervical ribs or rudimentary first ribs, but 12 per cent have occurred in patients with no osseous abnormality.
  • (4) The following differential signs were underlined: initial symptoms, such as rudimentary cenesthopathia, stable insomnia, etc., preceding the formation of delusions; appearance of episodic exacerbations in the form of short-time acute paranoiac states; a combination of paranoiac delusion with stable phasic affective disorders; unusual possession of delusional patients expressed in bizarre delusional behaviour, etc.
  • (5) The occupational health services available to health service staff are often rudimentary.
  • (6) We report 5 newborns with a contracted lesser pelvis, imperforate anus (severely stenotic and ectopic anus in 1 case), absent or rudimentary urinary tract, and defective or absent external genitalia, vagina, and uterus but normal gonads.
  • (7) British people’s privacy is being put in danger because organisations are failing to get rudimentary security right, the information commissioner’s office warned on Monday.
  • (8) The structure of the rudimentary prostates of Ellobius lutescens is maintained intact after 6 days of organotypic culture in the absence of male hormones.
  • (9) In the 1930s, Piraeus was a rudimentary harbour; it was bombed by German planes in the second world war.
  • (10) Although he only had a rudimentary education, it is from him that I acquired my passion for language and learning.
  • (11) For differential diagnosis rudimentary supernumerary digit, cutaneous horn and granuloma pyogenicum are to be considered.
  • (12) Since gonadogenesis in day-12 rat embryos is rudimentary, with gonadal differentiation of sex not yet apparent, the increased weight suggests that sex-linked genes exist which influence body growth prior to gonadal endocrine activity.
  • (13) Although all were quadriparetic due to postoperative mechanical deformation of the cervical region, they were able to use the affected limbs to make postural adjustments and for standing and rudimentary ambulation.
  • (14) All gonads were constituted by rudimentary ovarian stroma with different states of hyalinization.
  • (15) The oculoauricular reflex is a physiological and bilateral phenomenon, often rudimentary in man.
  • (16) This rudimentary accessory ray caused a splay foot deformity that made it difficult for the patient to walk comfortably in shoes.
  • (17) The two rudimentary pouches lying posteriorly were not outlined by delimiting arteries.
  • (18) eye contact) from unambiguous to ambiguous message conditions, suggesting awareness of the differences in these message types at a rudimentary level.
  • (19) The degeneration of ovarian follicles and the formation of cell cords (rudimentary seminiferous tubules) were seen in the cortex.
  • (20) The term "rudimentary meningocele" seems appropriate for these lesions.