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ELEMENTARY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easy and not involved or complicated
Example:
found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
Synonyms:
elementary; simple; uncomplicated; unproblematic
Classified under:
Similar:
easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or being the essential or basic part
Example:
a basal reader
Synonyms:
basal; elemental; elementary; primary
Classified under:
Similar:
basic (pertaining to or constituting a base or basis)
Derivation:
element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education
Example:
elementary teachers
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
elementary school (a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades)
Context examples:
Recently however, few studies showed that the acquisition of elementary associations such as stimulus-reflex response is possible during sleep, both in humans and in animals.
(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"Unless we have come upon a primitive practical joker," Summerlee suggested, "which I should think would be one of the most elementary developments of man."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With a spud, a tin box, and an elementary book on botany, there are instructive days to be spent.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In plants, it is elementary in the formation of isoprenoids, fat-soluble vitamins, carotenoids and related pigments.
(Isoprene, NCI Thesaurus)
But their intercourse was not all devoted to elementary study.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Elementary school students sang, Elder Nelson White provided a prayer, and the buffalo were released from a livestock trailer into a into a 48-acre space set aside for them in Kinnear.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back to business, Watson.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He then took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its elementary terms.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The study of those aspects of nature which can be understood in a fundamental way in terms of elementary principles and laws; the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it.
(Physics, NCI Thesaurus)
This species cannot be grown on an artificial medium, lacks peptidoglycan within the cell wall, forms elementary and reticulate bodies and can be identified using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to epitopes in the VS 4 region of MOMP along with DNA sequencing.
(Chlamydia trachomatis, NCI Thesaurus)
