(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.
Simple
Definition:
(a.) Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.
(a.) Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.
(a.) Mere; not other than; being only.
(a.) Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
(a.) Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
(a.) Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.
(a.) Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.
(a.) Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.
(a.) Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
(a.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.
(a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.
(a.) Homogenous.
(a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
(a.) Something not mixed or compounded.
(a.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
(a.) A drawloom.
(a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
(a.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
(v. i.) To gather simples, or medicinal plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(3) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(5) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(6) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(7) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(8) A simple method of selective catheterization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) following antegrade puncture of the common femoral artery is described.
(9) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(10) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(11) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
(12) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(13) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(14) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(15) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(16) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
(17) The design of a simple dynamic knee simulator is described.
(18) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
(19) A rapid and simple method has been developed for the nondestructive distinction between aflatoxin B1 and the feed antioxidant, ethoxyquin.
(20) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.