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Definitions: Elemental |
ElementalAdjective1. Being or resembling a force of nature; "elemental violence". 2. Being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple". 3. Relating to or being an element; "elemental sulphur". 4. Relating to severe atmospheric conditions; "a race against hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe"- J.K.Howard. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elemental" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ELAN | English | Elemental analysis | Mining |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The most common types are:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Elemental."
Synonym: ElementalSynonym: ultimate (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Life here is so elemental. So real. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In the Elemental World (1912) Elemental 7 (1982) | |
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Health | If soy formula causes an allergic reaction, the baby may be placed on an elemental formula. (references) | |
Economic History | Central African Republic | Only a small part of the population has more than an elemental knowledge of French, the official language. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade. The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them. "Chronicles of the Classes" |
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| "Elemental" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.25% of the time. "Elemental" is used about 255 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.25% | 248 | 18,908 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.75% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 255 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "elemental": elemental depiction ♦ elemental education ♦ elemental force ♦ Elemental Iodine ♦ elemental particle ♦ elemental semiconductor ♦ elemental time data ♦ elemental volume. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "elemental": elemental-analog, elemental-analogue. | |
Ending with "elemental": non-elemental. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
elemental | 69 |
elemental design | 49 |
elemental evil greyhawk temple | 23 |
elemental gearbolt | 22 |
elemental magick | 18 |
elemental magic | 17 |
elemental saga | 13 |
diet elemental | 11 |
elemental magazine | 11 |
elemental fisica | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "elemental"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | elementêr (abecedarian, elementary). (various references) | |
Albanian | thelbësor (Cardinal, essential, imperative, mattery, overriding, radical, vital), fillore (abecedarian, elementary, primary school). (various references) | |
Arabic | â€Ø¹Ù†ØµØ±ÙŠ (racial, racialist, racist). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ÑÑŠÑтавен (built up, complex, component, composite, compositive, constituent, constitutive, integrate), Ñтихиен (violent), вроден (congenital, connate, connatural, glandular, inborn, inbred, indigenous, inherent, innate, native, natural, radical, temperamental, unconditioned, untaught, untutored), начален (auroral, embryo, inceptive, incipient, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, opening, original), елементарен (abecedarian, elementary, potty, rudimental, rudimentary), първичен (aboriginal, live, living, original, primary, prime, primordial, pristine, protogenic, rudimental), проÑÑ‚ (abc, artless, childlike, common, commonplace, easy, elementary, funky, grave, homelike, homespun, humble, illiberal, low, native, onefold, open and shut, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, rugged, rustic, simple, sleazy, straight, straightforward, uncomplicated, unpretentious, vulgar). (various references) | |
Chinese | 自然力. (various references) | |
Czech | živelný (unrestrained). (various references) | |
Danish | elementær (abecedarian, elementary). (various references) | |
Dutch | elementair (abecedarian, elementary). (various references) | |
Esperanto | elementa (elementary). (various references) | |
Faeroese | grund- (abecedarian, elementary). (various references) | |
Finnish | elementin pinta-ala (elemental surface), perusaine (base, base metal, basis, basis material, basis metal, elemental substance, parent metal, primary matter), atomaarinen kloori (atomic chlorine, elemental chlorine), alkuainepuolijohde (elemental semiconductor, elementary semiconductor, single element semiconductor). (various references) | |
French | primaire (elementary), élémentaire (elementary). (various references) | |
Frisian | elemintêr (abecedarian, elementary). (various references) | |
German | elementar (abecedarian, basic, elementary, fundamental, primary, rudimental, rudimentary, ultimate, violent). (various references) | |
Greek | στοιχειώδησ (element, elementary, primary, rudimental, rudimentary). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | fillore (abecedarian, elementary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elemi (elementary, primary, rudimentary), elsődleges (life-line, primary, prime). (various references) | |
Italian | elementare (abecedarian, basic, elementary, fundamental, primary, rudimental). (various references) | |
Korean | ì›ì†Œ. (various references) | |
Manx | ny h-emshir, bunneydagh (authoritative, basic, firsthand, fundamental, fundamentalist, original, primitive, primordial, radical, rudimentary, underlying, vital). (various references) | |
Papiamen | elemental (abecedarian, elementary). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elementalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | elementar (elementary, elementary education, simple), rudimento, rudimentar (a.b.c., abc, abecedarian, elementary, inchoate, rudimentary, sketchy). (various references) | |
Romanian | esenţial (capital, constituent, constitutive, essential, fundamental, indispensable, main, meat, prime, principal, vital), elementar (abecedarian, elementary, primary, rudimental, rudimentary), component (component, composing, compound, constituent, constitutive, integrant, integrate). (various references) | |
Russian | оÑновной (basal, basic, best, essential, fundamental, key, main, most basic, overriding, primal, primary, prime, primitive, principal, radical, underlying). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | elementaran (basic, elementary), stihijski. (various references) | |
Spanish | elemental (basic, elementary, shirt-sleeve, shirt-sleeved). (various references) | |
Swedish | elementär (abecedarian, basic, elementary, fundamental, initiatory, simple). (various references) | |
Turkish | esas (authentic, basal, base, basic, basis, beginnings, broad, central, constitutive, corner stone, element, essence, extract, footing, fortification, foundation, fundamental, guiding, heartbeat, intrinsic, main, master, nub, parent, pith, pith and marrow, pivotal, postulate, principal, principle, quiddity, radical, staple, substance, sum, the merits, the nub, ultimate, underlying), temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, bread and butter, constitutive, corner stone, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundament, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, primary, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, socle, staple, substratum, substructure, underlying, working), saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), doğa güçleri ile ilgili (elementary), basit (basic, countrified, crude, easy, elementary, everyday, facile, foolproof, frugal, frugally, homely, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Ñтихійний, неÑтримний (abandoned, effusive, precipitous, runaway, side-splitting, splitting), природний (artless, careless, connatural, inbred, indigenous, matter of course, native, natural, physic, radical, unartful, unlabored, unlaboured, untaught, untutored), початковий (a.b.c., arch-, archetypal, basic, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, initiatory, institutional, opening, original, originary, primary, prime, primordial, protoplastic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elemental": elementally, elementals. (additional references) | |
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"Elemental" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bloemendal, elemenal, elemential, Elemeta, Legentil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "elemental" (pronounced e'lume"ntul or e'lume"nul) |
| 8 | -l u m e" n t u l | supplemental. |
| 7 | -u m e" n t u l | detrimental, experimental, fundamental, incremental, instrumental, monumental, ornamental, regimental, sentimental, temperamental, unsentimental. |
| 6 | -m e" n t u l | compartmental, developmental, environmental, intergovernmental, judgmental, mental, nongovernmental. |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | accidental, coincidental, continental, dental, gentle, incidental, intercontinental, lentil, occidental, oriental, parental, rental, transcendental, transcontinental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, infantile, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, infertile, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
| 5 | -m e" n u l | departmental. |
| 4 | -e" n u l | fennel, kennel. |
| 3 | -n u l | abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, infernal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-l-l-m-n-t" | |
-2 letters: element, teleman, telemen. | |
-3 letters: enamel, lament, lateen, mallee, mallet, mantel, mantle, mental. | |
-4 letters: allee, ament, anele, eaten, elate, enate, enema, laten, leant, leman, meant, melee, menta, metal, telae. | |
-5 letters: alee, alme, amen, ante, elan, etna, lame, lane, late, leal, lean, leet, lent, male, mall, malt, mane, mate, meal, mean, meat, meet, mell, melt, meta, mete, name, neat, neem, nema, tael, tale, tall, tame, teal, team, teel, teem, teen, tela, tele, tell. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-l-l-m-n-t" | |
+1 letter: elementals. | |
+2 letters: elementally. | |
+3 letters: elementarily. | |
+4 letters: developmental, gentlemanlike, mantelshelves, televangelism. | |
+5 letters: experimentally, lamentableness, televangelisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 65 6D 65 6E 74 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-.. . -- . -. - .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l e m e n t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397871797180866778 |
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