Definition of elemental in English:

elemental

adjective ˌɛlɪˈmɛnt(ə)lˌɛləˈmɛn(t)l

1Forming an essential or typical feature; fundamental.
failure is always apparent at this elemental level
Example sentencesExamples
- In the portrait, Picasso has broken his subject into angular elemental forms and then reassembled them from various perspectives, like a shattered mirror.
- Can someone please explain to me how the most elemental political issues can be derived from this overhyped melange of the obvious and the psychotic?
- As this latest battle tears through yet another week, old fears are brought back to life, resurrecting the historical arguments about who has what elemental rights in historic Palestine.
- At its elemental level, in the construction industry the temp agencies have essentially created alternative ‘non - union’ hiring halls.
- While her works have consistently pointed to a delightful connection between ourselves and our things, here she seemed to explore that connection down to an elemental level.
- At the most basic level, they shared elemental similarities - they faced the street, they had windows in rows, etc.
- They are baggage in its most elemental form, moving from apartment to apartment with me, serving no function whatsoever but to clutter.
- You also have to know your topic well enough to discuss it at the elemental concept level.
- It is an elemental way of knowing who we are on all levels - heart, body and mind.
- However, these elemental components of behavior can only be understood in the natural context of the animal.
- To these most elemental facts, add human beings.
- Mr Quin said: ‘The elemental costs were deliberately assessed on the basis of a worst case scenario in each instance.’
- But he objected to something more elemental, and less subject to rehabilitation, than the doctor's impolitic opinion about the caucuses.
- Slate magazine does not seem to use fact-checkers, but these elemental facts easily can be found in any encyclopedia of American history, or by a ten-second
- He did not conflate signs with reality at an elemental level, and his alphabet does not connect to reality so much as provide an analogy for real-world relations.
Synonyms
basic, primary, principal, fundamental, essential, elementary, radical, root, underlying
1. 1.1 Concerned with chemical elements or other basic components.
  化学元素的；基本成分的
  elemental analysis
  化学元素分析。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Electron microscopes are usually equipped with an analytical system that also allows for simultaneous elemental analysis of the sample's surface.
  Both men helped to systematize chemistry, to define the law of definite proportions and the underlying atomic and elemental principles.
  The identity of the synthesized compound was tested by elemental analysis.
  Qualitative elemental analysis methods comprise both instrumental and chemical or ‘wet’ techniques.
  Cytosolic activities roughly corresponded with elemental analysis of combined dry matter fractions from whole plants.
  So visual differentiation of the individual species in many specimens is tentative and can be verified only with some type of elemental analysis.
  Simply stated, one cannot have more minerals in equilibrium than there are components (in this case, the four elemental oxides).
  X-ray spectrometers are attached routinely to scanning electron microscopes and these provide elemental analyses of samples in the SEM and are a powerful means for pigment identification.
  Furthermore, elemental microbeam analysis indicated that the growth of maize in heavy metal soils was, at least in part, due to the selective immobilization of metals within the root tissues that contain the fungal cells.
  This task is complicated by the multitude of chemical compounds in the interstellar medium and the elemental line spectra in the originating star light.
  A qualitative elemental analysis was undertaken across the polished section so that common elements could be identified.
  The empirical formula can be obtained from the elemental analysis of a substance.
  Recognition of these elemental associations and their environments of formation is the basis for geochemical exploration.
  To encompass all oxidation-reduction reactions, it is necessary to determine the gain and loss of electrons for covalent as well as ionic and elemental species.
  Newer techniques such as inductively coupled plasma spectrometry have taken over many aspects of elemental analysis.
  The findings of the elemental analysis are expressed as percentages of the dry matter.
  In addition to ambient pollutant levels, elemental concentrations within moss tissue may be influenced by the nature of the sample.
  Boyle's demand for experimental analysis as the arbiter of elemental status is a central component of this change.
  These are capable of identifying materials at the molecular, rather than elemental, level and can be applied to paint binding media as well as to pigments.
  Forensic science was a hot topic at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, and elemental analysis was a recurring theme.
2. 1.2 Denoting uncombined chemical elements.
  elemental sulphur
  Example sentencesExamples
  I had a graduate student who used to like to pan for gold and a couple of times he brought some of his pannings in to show me: Big droplets of elemental mercury.
  We keep finding new and bigger sources, but we think that levels of elemental mercury in the atmosphere are not increasing.
  The start of fluorine chemistry can be traced back to the isolation of elemental fluorine, FCF 2, by Henri Moissan in 1886.
  They irradiated these glasses for five minutes with intense synchrotron radiation, which triggered the photochemical reduction of the gold ions to elemental gold.
  The most hydrophobic and fungitoxic compound unexpectedly proved to be elemental sulphur.
  Other elements occur naturally in a pure or elemental form, like sulphur or gold.
  Declining American reserves of elemental sulphur could open up export possibilities.
  For example, hydrogen is always found as a molecule in its elemental form (pure hydrogen).
  The oxidation number of an atom in an elemental substance is zero.
2Related to or embodying the powers of nature.
自然力的
a thunderstorm is the inevitable outcome of battling elemental forces
雷暴是各种自然力相较量的不可避免的结果。
Example sentencesExamples
- With the elemental forces of nature battering away at them, Molesey and Dulwich Hamlet put on a show of football that was at times breathtaking given the rain and wind that lashed Molesey Park Stadium.
- He said he believed that un-vegetated peat and mineral soil, especially at such an exposed location, was subject to elemental erosion.
Synonyms
natural, atmospheric, meteorological, environmental
1. 2.1 (of an emotion) powerful and primitive.
  a magical, elemental desire
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the most profound, and the hardest to convey, is the sense of elemental wonder it can inspire.
  A man comes out with a camera to catch this display of raw, elemental hatred.
  Moreover, both moments of elemental happiness are undercut by sharp turns toward alienation and fear.
  I'm not sure about the origins of the elemental satisfaction I derive sunk down in the cushions of my chair.
  For me it had little to do with killing a fox, though that must have been part of the elemental excitement and fear I felt, and that everyone seemed to share.
  Though it is the painful season of Christ's agony and death, it belongs in Chaucer to the elemental happiness rising from the resurrecting earth.
  The more unvarnished and elemental the emotion, the more likely we glib sophisticates will roll our eyes: oh, please.
  People who chase the elemental thrills of raw sea creatures probably know the feeling.
  There were no tears in her eyes, but the oceans of pure blue held every ounce of her sadness like a bucket of ice melting and overflowing with a powerful sweep of elemental passion.
  From the mid-1880s he began to use violent colour and linear distortions to express the most elemental emotions of fear, love, and hatred.
  There might be a third reason, namely, that this reticent, withdrawn man felt wary of immersing himself for too long in the elemental passions of the ordinary West Indian.
  And so, for Freud, ‘society’ is a mutual pact for the repression of elemental lust.
  Of course, the central component was, and remains, one of raw, elemental interest.
  As he points out in the catalogue, the elemental feelings about life and death evoked in these paintings of solitary stags convey a mood of religious awe.
  His interest is solely in the elemental feelings of this simple girl.
  After a few readings, you can understand that her reality has a deep human presence, elemental sorrow, and ecstasy.
  Learning to manage the planet's resources, while keeping out of the way of its elemental fury is even more difficult.
  If only we could believe America truly took the lesson of 9/11 - elemental disgust at war and the things of war.
  McManus' character is defined by a relentless and elemental instinct to compete, but nothing brings out the raw desire in him like International Rules football.
  Synonyms
  basic, primary, principal, fundamental, essential, elementary, radical, root, underlying

noun ˌɛlɪˈmɛnt(ə)lˌɛləˈmɛn(t)l

A supernatural entity or force thought to be physically manifested by occult means.
以神秘方式呈现出来的超自然实体（或力量）；神灵，鬼怪
gods and elementals looked out upon the worshippers
Example sentencesExamples
- With demons and elementals, one uses a thaumaturgic circle to call them into and bind them.
- His output included straightforward pictures (particularly portraits), but his most characteristic works are weird images of a world of spirits and elementals.
- But neither the light of the crystals nor the praise from the elementals could lift the darkness within her.
- ‘The Ghosts are obviously well-prepared, to openly fight elementals like this,’ Storm said, motioning to the water.
- With the discovery that the Fire elementals were acting alone, the humans and elementals united to try and stop the force.
- Some mages in one of the other planes have learned how to trap them and force the elementals to do their bidding.
- Water elementals are powerful beings and I did not consider saying no at any time to the request.
- You have different names for them; elementals, fairies, and devas for example.
- I do not think elementals are evil as some people believe, you cannot class things like fire and water as evil as they are not conscious and therefore not aware of what they do.
- When dealing with energy or elementals, I tend to see them as dragons.
- Both humans and elementals can see right through all 17 domes and gaze upon the blue crystal-like city located within the first and largest dome at the center of Aquaria.
- Your god acts as your spellcaster that can perform such tasks as summon elementals, raise your dead units and transform land to give your lesser units an advantage during combat.
- If we stop assuming that they are physical creatures and work from the principle that they are some kind of nature spirits or elementals tied to a particular body of water and treat them as such, would they respond to traditional methods?
- When creating him I saw him as being a slightly melancholy but essentially decent young man, and I imagined his destiny would involve being one of the people to finally bring peace between humanity and the elementals.

Derivatives

elementalism

noun

Signer's less-is-more elementalism does not always result in this kind of meditative sublime, however; on the contrary, it can also be frantic, obsessive, manically repetitive and psychologically conflicted.
Example sentencesExamples
- Their specific elementalism is felt in Hackett's preference and deep feeling for blue and white as her principal color divisions.
- ‘It's one of the basics of elementalism,’ Elisa said, glad that she'd averted a possible disaster.

elementally

adverb

Yet the real reason we saw Pre and the others as heroes was that we secretly believed we were elementally equal.
Example sentencesExamples
- The film is an elementally emotional work, flooded everywhere by a deep, regretful sort of fatalism.
- Aside from the heavy battle axe, all of Samanosuke's weapons are elementally charged swords.
- And there is something elementally biblical in that, something intoxicatingly divine.
- Even more paradoxical is the acceptance that this revolutionary impulse has emanated from an elementally American art form.

Origin

Late 15th century: from medieval Latin elementalis, from elementum 'principle, rudiment' (see element).

Definition of elemental in US English:

elemental

adjectiveˌeləˈmen(t)lˌɛləˈmɛn(t)l

1Primary or basic.
初级的；基础的
elemental features from which all other structures are compounded
所有其他结构得以合成的基本特征。
Example sentencesExamples
- Can someone please explain to me how the most elemental political issues can be derived from this overhyped melange of the obvious and the psychotic?
- Slate magazine does not seem to use fact-checkers, but these elemental facts easily can be found in any encyclopedia of American history, or by a ten-second
- To these most elemental facts, add human beings.
- However, these elemental components of behavior can only be understood in the natural context of the animal.
- At the most basic level, they shared elemental similarities - they faced the street, they had windows in rows, etc.
- They are baggage in its most elemental form, moving from apartment to apartment with me, serving no function whatsoever but to clutter.
- But he objected to something more elemental, and less subject to rehabilitation, than the doctor's impolitic opinion about the caucuses.
- At its elemental level, in the construction industry the temp agencies have essentially created alternative ‘non - union’ hiring halls.
- While her works have consistently pointed to a delightful connection between ourselves and our things, here she seemed to explore that connection down to an elemental level.
- Mr Quin said: ‘The elemental costs were deliberately assessed on the basis of a worst case scenario in each instance.’
- As this latest battle tears through yet another week, old fears are brought back to life, resurrecting the historical arguments about who has what elemental rights in historic Palestine.
- You also have to know your topic well enough to discuss it at the elemental concept level.
- He did not conflate signs with reality at an elemental level, and his alphabet does not connect to reality so much as provide an analogy for real-world relations.
- It is an elemental way of knowing who we are on all levels - heart, body and mind.
- In the portrait, Picasso has broken his subject into angular elemental forms and then reassembled them from various perspectives, like a shattered mirror.
Synonyms
basic, primary, principal, fundamental, essential, elementary, radical, root, underlying
1. 1.1 Concerned with chemical elements or other basic components.
  化学元素的；基本成分的
  elemental analysis
  化学元素分析。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Newer techniques such as inductively coupled plasma spectrometry have taken over many aspects of elemental analysis.
  Qualitative elemental analysis methods comprise both instrumental and chemical or ‘wet’ techniques.
  Boyle's demand for experimental analysis as the arbiter of elemental status is a central component of this change.
  A qualitative elemental analysis was undertaken across the polished section so that common elements could be identified.
  In addition to ambient pollutant levels, elemental concentrations within moss tissue may be influenced by the nature of the sample.
  Forensic science was a hot topic at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, and elemental analysis was a recurring theme.
  Electron microscopes are usually equipped with an analytical system that also allows for simultaneous elemental analysis of the sample's surface.
  The identity of the synthesized compound was tested by elemental analysis.
  So visual differentiation of the individual species in many specimens is tentative and can be verified only with some type of elemental analysis.
  To encompass all oxidation-reduction reactions, it is necessary to determine the gain and loss of electrons for covalent as well as ionic and elemental species.
  Cytosolic activities roughly corresponded with elemental analysis of combined dry matter fractions from whole plants.
  The empirical formula can be obtained from the elemental analysis of a substance.
  These are capable of identifying materials at the molecular, rather than elemental, level and can be applied to paint binding media as well as to pigments.
  Both men helped to systematize chemistry, to define the law of definite proportions and the underlying atomic and elemental principles.
  Simply stated, one cannot have more minerals in equilibrium than there are components (in this case, the four elemental oxides).
  Furthermore, elemental microbeam analysis indicated that the growth of maize in heavy metal soils was, at least in part, due to the selective immobilization of metals within the root tissues that contain the fungal cells.
  This task is complicated by the multitude of chemical compounds in the interstellar medium and the elemental line spectra in the originating star light.
  The findings of the elemental analysis are expressed as percentages of the dry matter.
  X-ray spectrometers are attached routinely to scanning electron microscopes and these provide elemental analyses of samples in the SEM and are a powerful means for pigment identification.
  Recognition of these elemental associations and their environments of formation is the basis for geochemical exploration.
2. 1.2 Consisting of a single chemical element.
  由单一元素组成的；非化合的
  Example sentencesExamples
  We keep finding new and bigger sources, but we think that levels of elemental mercury in the atmosphere are not increasing.
  I had a graduate student who used to like to pan for gold and a couple of times he brought some of his pannings in to show me: Big droplets of elemental mercury.
  Declining American reserves of elemental sulphur could open up export possibilities.
  The start of fluorine chemistry can be traced back to the isolation of elemental fluorine, FCF 2, by Henri Moissan in 1886.
  The oxidation number of an atom in an elemental substance is zero.
  The most hydrophobic and fungitoxic compound unexpectedly proved to be elemental sulphur.
  Other elements occur naturally in a pure or elemental form, like sulphur or gold.
  They irradiated these glasses for five minutes with intense synchrotron radiation, which triggered the photochemical reduction of the gold ions to elemental gold.
  For example, hydrogen is always found as a molecule in its elemental form (pure hydrogen).
2Related to or embodying the powers of nature.
自然力的
a thunderstorm is the inevitable outcome of battling elemental forces
雷暴是各种自然力相较量的不可避免的结果。
Example sentencesExamples
- With the elemental forces of nature battering away at them, Molesey and Dulwich Hamlet put on a show of football that was at times breathtaking given the rain and wind that lashed Molesey Park Stadium.
- He said he believed that un-vegetated peat and mineral soil, especially at such an exposed location, was subject to elemental erosion.
Synonyms
natural, atmospheric, meteorological, environmental
1. 2.1 (of an emotion) having the primitive and inescapable character of a force of nature.
  〈喻〉（人的感情或行为）可与自然力相比拟的；粗犷的
  the urge for revenge was too elemental to be ignored
  复仇的冲动太强烈了，决不能掉以轻心。
  Example sentencesExamples
  From the mid-1880s he began to use violent colour and linear distortions to express the most elemental emotions of fear, love, and hatred.
  There were no tears in her eyes, but the oceans of pure blue held every ounce of her sadness like a bucket of ice melting and overflowing with a powerful sweep of elemental passion.
  For me it had little to do with killing a fox, though that must have been part of the elemental excitement and fear I felt, and that everyone seemed to share.
  His interest is solely in the elemental feelings of this simple girl.
  Moreover, both moments of elemental happiness are undercut by sharp turns toward alienation and fear.
  People who chase the elemental thrills of raw sea creatures probably know the feeling.
  And so, for Freud, ‘society’ is a mutual pact for the repression of elemental lust.
  After a few readings, you can understand that her reality has a deep human presence, elemental sorrow, and ecstasy.
  But the most profound, and the hardest to convey, is the sense of elemental wonder it can inspire.
  If only we could believe America truly took the lesson of 9/11 - elemental disgust at war and the things of war.
  As he points out in the catalogue, the elemental feelings about life and death evoked in these paintings of solitary stags convey a mood of religious awe.
  Though it is the painful season of Christ's agony and death, it belongs in Chaucer to the elemental happiness rising from the resurrecting earth.
  Learning to manage the planet's resources, while keeping out of the way of its elemental fury is even more difficult.
  Of course, the central component was, and remains, one of raw, elemental interest.
  The more unvarnished and elemental the emotion, the more likely we glib sophisticates will roll our eyes: oh, please.
  McManus' character is defined by a relentless and elemental instinct to compete, but nothing brings out the raw desire in him like International Rules football.
  I'm not sure about the origins of the elemental satisfaction I derive sunk down in the cushions of my chair.
  There might be a third reason, namely, that this reticent, withdrawn man felt wary of immersing himself for too long in the elemental passions of the ordinary West Indian.
  A man comes out with a camera to catch this display of raw, elemental hatred.
  Synonyms
  basic, primary, principal, fundamental, essential, elementary, radical, root, underlying

nounˌeləˈmen(t)lˌɛləˈmɛn(t)l

A supernatural entity or force thought to be physically manifested by occult means.
以神秘方式呈现出来的超自然实体（或力量）；神灵，鬼怪
Example sentencesExamples
- I do not think elementals are evil as some people believe, you cannot class things like fire and water as evil as they are not conscious and therefore not aware of what they do.
- ‘The Ghosts are obviously well-prepared, to openly fight elementals like this,’ Storm said, motioning to the water.
- When dealing with energy or elementals, I tend to see them as dragons.
- If we stop assuming that they are physical creatures and work from the principle that they are some kind of nature spirits or elementals tied to a particular body of water and treat them as such, would they respond to traditional methods?
- With demons and elementals, one uses a thaumaturgic circle to call them into and bind them.
- Water elementals are powerful beings and I did not consider saying no at any time to the request.
- With the discovery that the Fire elementals were acting alone, the humans and elementals united to try and stop the force.
- But neither the light of the crystals nor the praise from the elementals could lift the darkness within her.
- Some mages in one of the other planes have learned how to trap them and force the elementals to do their bidding.
- You have different names for them; elementals, fairies, and devas for example.
- His output included straightforward pictures (particularly portraits), but his most characteristic works are weird images of a world of spirits and elementals.
- Your god acts as your spellcaster that can perform such tasks as summon elementals, raise your dead units and transform land to give your lesser units an advantage during combat.
- When creating him I saw him as being a slightly melancholy but essentially decent young man, and I imagined his destiny would involve being one of the people to finally bring peace between humanity and the elementals.
- Both humans and elementals can see right through all 17 domes and gaze upon the blue crystal-like city located within the first and largest dome at the center of Aquaria.

Origin

Late 15th century: from medieval Latin elementalis, from elementum ‘principle, rudiment’ (see element).

词汇	elemental
释义	Definition of elemental in English: elemental adjective ˌɛlɪˈmɛnt(ə)lˌɛləˈmɛn(t)l 1Forming an essential or typical feature; fundamental. failure is always apparent at this elemental level Example sentencesExamples In the portrait, Picasso has broken his subject into angular elemental forms and then reassembled them from various perspectives, like a shattered mirror. Can someone please explain to me how the most elemental political issues can be derived from this overhyped melange of the obvious and the psychotic? As this latest battle tears through yet another week, old fears are brought back to life, resurrecting the historical arguments about who has what elemental rights in historic Palestine. At its elemental level, in the construction industry the temp agencies have essentially created alternative ‘non - union’ hiring halls. While her works have consistently pointed to a delightful connection between ourselves and our things, here she seemed to explore that connection down to an elemental level. At the most basic level, they shared elemental similarities - they faced the street, they had windows in rows, etc. They are baggage in its most elemental form, moving from apartment to apartment with me, serving no function whatsoever but to clutter. You also have to know your topic well enough to discuss it at the elemental concept level. It is an elemental way of knowing who we are on all levels - heart, body and mind. However, these elemental components of behavior can only be understood in the natural context of the animal. To these most elemental facts, add human beings. Mr Quin said: ‘The elemental costs were deliberately assessed on the basis of a worst case scenario in each instance.’ But he objected to something more elemental, and less subject to rehabilitation, than the doctor's impolitic opinion about the caucuses. Slate magazine does not seem to use fact-checkers, but these elemental facts easily can be found in any encyclopedia of American history, or by a ten-second He did not conflate signs with reality at an elemental level, and his alphabet does not connect to reality so much as provide an analogy for real-world relations. Synonyms basic, primary, principal, fundamental, essential, elementary, radical, root, underlying 1.1 Concerned with chemical elements or other basic components. 化学元素的；基本成分的 elemental analysis 化学元素分析。 Example sentencesExamples Electron microscopes are usually equipped with an analytical system that also allows for simultaneous elemental analysis of the sample's surface. Both men helped to systematize chemistry, to define the law of definite proportions and the underlying atomic and elemental principles. The identity of the synthesized compound was tested by elemental analysis. Qualitative elemental analysis methods comprise both instrumental and chemical or ‘wet’ techniques. Cytosolic activities roughly corresponded with elemental analysis of combined dry matter fractions from whole plants. So visual differentiation of the individual species in many specimens is tentative and can be verified only with some type of elemental analysis. Simply stated, one cannot have more minerals in equilibrium than there are components (in this case, the four elemental oxides). X-ray spectrometers are attached routinely to scanning electron microscopes and these provide elemental analyses of samples in the SEM and are a powerful means for pigment identification. Furthermore, elemental microbeam analysis indicated that the growth of maize in heavy metal soils was, at least in part, due to the selective immobilization of metals within the root tissues that contain the fungal cells. This task is complicated by the multitude of chemical compounds in the interstellar medium and the elemental line spectra in the originating star light. A qualitative elemental analysis was undertaken across the polished section so that common elements could be identified. The empirical formula can be obtained from the elemental analysis of a substance. Recognition of these elemental associations and their environments of formation is the basis for geochemical exploration. To encompass all oxidation-reduction reactions, it is necessary to determine the gain and loss of electrons for covalent as well as ionic and elemental species. Newer techniques such as inductively coupled plasma spectrometry have taken over many aspects of elemental analysis. The findings of the elemental analysis are expressed as percentages of the dry matter. In addition to ambient pollutant levels, elemental concentrations within moss tissue may be influenced by the nature of the sample. Boyle's demand for experimental analysis as the arbiter of elemental status is a central component of this change. These are capable of identifying materials at the molecular, rather than elemental, level and can be applied to paint binding media as well as to pigments. Forensic science was a hot topic at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, and elemental analysis was a recurring theme. 1.2 Denoting uncombined chemical elements. elemental sulphur Example sentencesExamples I had a graduate student who used to like to pan for gold and a couple of times he brought some of his pannings in to show me: Big droplets of elemental mercury. We keep finding new and bigger sources, but we think that levels of elemental mercury in the atmosphere are not increasing. The start of fluorine chemistry can be traced back to the isolation of elemental fluorine, FCF 2, by Henri Moissan in 1886. They irradiated these glasses for five minutes with intense synchrotron radiation, which triggered the photochemical reduction of the gold ions to elemental gold. The most hydrophobic and fungitoxic compound unexpectedly proved to be elemental sulphur. Other elements occur naturally in a pure or elemental form, like sulphur or gold. Declining American reserves of elemental sulphur could open up export possibilities. For example, hydrogen is always found as a molecule in its elemental form (pure hydrogen). The oxidation number of an atom in an elemental substance is zero. 2Related to or embodying the powers of nature. 自然力的 a thunderstorm is the inevitable outcome of battling elemental forces 雷暴是各种自然力相较量的不可避免的结果。 Example sentencesExamples With the elemental forces of nature battering away at them, Molesey and Dulwich Hamlet put on a show of football that was at times breathtaking given the rain and wind that lashed Molesey Park Stadium. He said he believed that un-vegetated peat and mineral soil, especially at such an exposed location, was subject to elemental erosion. Synonyms natural, atmospheric, meteorological, environmental 2.1 (of an emotion) powerful and primitive. a magical, elemental desire Example sentencesExamples But the most profound, and the hardest to convey, is the sense of elemental wonder it can inspire. A man comes out with a camera to catch this display of raw, elemental hatred. Moreover, both moments of elemental happiness are undercut by sharp turns toward alienation and fear. I'm not sure about the origins of the elemental satisfaction I derive sunk down in the cushions of my chair. For me it had little to do with killing a fox, though that must have been part of the elemental excitement and fear I felt, and that everyone seemed to share. Though it is the painful season of Christ's agony and death, it belongs in Chaucer to the elemental happiness rising from the resurrecting earth. The more unvarnished and elemental the emotion, the more likely we glib sophisticates will roll our eyes: oh, please. People who chase the elemental thrills of raw sea creatures probably know the feeling. There were no tears in her eyes, but the oceans of pure blue held every ounce of her sadness like a bucket of ice melting and overflowing with a powerful sweep of elemental passion. From the mid-1880s he began to use violent colour and linear distortions to express the most elemental emotions of fear, love, and hatred. There might be a third reason, namely, that this reticent, withdrawn man felt wary of immersing himself for too long in the elemental passions of the ordinary West Indian. And so, for Freud, ‘society’ is a mutual pact for the repression of elemental lust. Of course, the central component was, and remains, one of raw, elemental interest. As he points out in the catalogue, the elemental feelings about life and death evoked in these paintings of solitary stags convey a mood of religious awe. His interest is solely in the elemental feelings of this simple girl. After a few readings, you can understand that her reality has a deep human presence, elemental sorrow, and ecstasy. Learning to manage the planet's resources, while keeping out of the way of its elemental fury is even more difficult. If only we could believe America truly took the lesson of 9/11 - elemental disgust at war and the things of war. McManus' character is defined by a relentless and elemental instinct to compete, but nothing brings out the raw desire in him like International Rules football. Synonyms basic, primary, principal, fundamental, essential, elementary, radical, root, underlying noun ˌɛlɪˈmɛnt(ə)lˌɛləˈmɛn(t)l A supernatural entity or force thought to be physically manifested by occult means. 以神秘方式呈现出来的超自然实体（或力量）；神灵，鬼怪 gods and elementals looked out upon the worshippers Example sentencesExamples With demons and elementals, one uses a thaumaturgic circle to call them into and bind them. His output included straightforward pictures (particularly portraits), but his most characteristic works are weird images of a world of spirits and elementals. But neither the light of the crystals nor the praise from the elementals could lift the darkness within her. ‘The Ghosts are obviously well-prepared, to openly fight elementals like this,’ Storm said, motioning to the water. With the discovery that the Fire elementals were acting alone, the humans and elementals united to try and stop the force. Some mages in one of the other planes have learned how to trap them and force the elementals to do their bidding. Water elementals are powerful beings and I did not consider saying no at any time to the request. You have different names for them; elementals, fairies, and devas for example. I do not think elementals are evil as some people believe, you cannot class things like fire and water as evil as they are not conscious and therefore not aware of what they do. When dealing with energy or elementals, I tend to see them as dragons. Both humans and elementals can see right through all 17 domes and gaze upon the blue crystal-like city located within the first and largest dome at the center of Aquaria. Your god acts as your spellcaster that can perform such tasks as summon elementals, raise your dead units and transform land to give your lesser units an advantage during combat. If we stop assuming that they are physical creatures and work from the principle that they are some kind of nature spirits or elementals tied to a particular body of water and treat them as such, would they respond to traditional methods? When creating him I saw him as being a slightly melancholy but essentially decent young man, and I imagined his destiny would involve being one of the people to finally bring peace between humanity and the elementals. Derivatives elementalism noun Signer's less-is-more elementalism does not always result in this kind of meditative sublime, however; on the contrary, it can also be frantic, obsessive, manically repetitive and psychologically conflicted. Example sentencesExamples Their specific elementalism is felt in Hackett's preference and deep feeling for blue and white as her principal color divisions. ‘It's one of the basics of elementalism,’ Elisa said, glad that she'd averted a possible disaster. elementally adverb Yet the real reason we saw Pre and the others as heroes was that we secretly believed we were elementally equal. Example sentencesExamples The film is an elementally emotional work, flooded everywhere by a deep, regretful sort of fatalism. Aside from the heavy battle axe, all of Samanosuke's weapons are elementally charged swords. And there is something elementally biblical in that, something intoxicatingly divine. Even more paradoxical is the acceptance that this revolutionary impulse has emanated from an elementally American art form. Origin Late 15th century: from medieval Latin elementalis, from elementum 'principle, rudiment' (see element). Definition of elemental in US English: elemental adjectiveˌeləˈmen(t)lˌɛləˈmɛn(t)l 1Primary or basic. 初级的；基础的 elemental features from which all other structures are compounded 所有其他结构得以合成的基本特征。 Example sentencesExamples Can someone please explain to me how the most elemental political issues can be derived from this overhyped melange of the obvious and the psychotic? Slate magazine does not seem to use fact-checkers, but these elemental facts easily can be found in any encyclopedia of American history, or by a ten-second To these most elemental facts, add human beings. However, these elemental components of behavior can only be understood in the natural context of the animal. At the most basic level, they shared elemental similarities - they faced the street, they had windows in rows, etc. They are baggage in its most elemental form, moving from apartment to apartment with me, serving no function whatsoever but to clutter. But he objected to something more elemental, and less subject to rehabilitation, than the doctor's impolitic opinion about the caucuses. At its elemental level, in the construction industry the temp agencies have essentially created alternative ‘non - union’ hiring halls. While her works have consistently pointed to a delightful connection between ourselves and our things, here she seemed to explore that connection down to an elemental level. Mr Quin said: ‘The elemental costs were deliberately assessed on the basis of a worst case scenario in each instance.’ As this latest battle tears through yet another week, old fears are brought back to life, resurrecting the historical arguments about who has what elemental rights in historic Palestine. You also have to know your topic well enough to discuss it at the elemental concept level. He did not conflate signs with reality at an elemental level, and his alphabet does not connect to reality so much as provide an analogy for real-world relations. It is an elemental way of knowing who we are on all levels - heart, body and mind. In the portrait, Picasso has broken his subject into angular elemental forms and then reassembled them from various perspectives, like a shattered mirror. Synonyms basic, primary, principal, fundamental, essential, elementary, radical, root, underlying 1.1 Concerned with chemical elements or other basic components. 化学元素的；基本成分的 elemental analysis 化学元素分析。 Example sentencesExamples Newer techniques such as inductively coupled plasma spectrometry have taken over many aspects of elemental analysis. Qualitative elemental analysis methods comprise both instrumental and chemical or ‘wet’ techniques. Boyle's demand for experimental analysis as the arbiter of elemental status is a central component of this change. A qualitative elemental analysis was undertaken across the polished section so that common elements could be identified. In addition to ambient pollutant levels, elemental concentrations within moss tissue may be influenced by the nature of the sample. Forensic science was a hot topic at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, and elemental analysis was a recurring theme. Electron microscopes are usually equipped with an analytical system that also allows for simultaneous elemental analysis of the sample's surface. The identity of the synthesized compound was tested by elemental analysis. So visual differentiation of the individual species in many specimens is tentative and can be verified only with some type of elemental analysis. To encompass all oxidation-reduction reactions, it is necessary to determine the gain and loss of electrons for covalent as well as ionic and elemental species. Cytosolic activities roughly corresponded with elemental analysis of combined dry matter fractions from whole plants. The empirical formula can be obtained from the elemental analysis of a substance. These are capable of identifying materials at the molecular, rather than elemental, level and can be applied to paint binding media as well as to pigments. Both men helped to systematize chemistry, to define the law of definite proportions and the underlying atomic and elemental principles. Simply stated, one cannot have more minerals in equilibrium than there are components (in this case, the four elemental oxides). Furthermore, elemental microbeam analysis indicated that the growth of maize in heavy metal soils was, at least in part, due to the selective immobilization of metals within the root tissues that contain the fungal cells. This task is complicated by the multitude of chemical compounds in the interstellar medium and the elemental line spectra in the originating star light. The findings of the elemental analysis are expressed as percentages of the dry matter. X-ray spectrometers are attached routinely to scanning electron microscopes and these provide elemental analyses of samples in the SEM and are a powerful means for pigment identification. Recognition of these elemental associations and their environments of formation is the basis for geochemical exploration. 1.2 Consisting of a single chemical element. 由单一元素组成的；非化合的 Example sentencesExamples We keep finding new and bigger sources, but we think that levels of elemental mercury in the atmosphere are not increasing. I had a graduate student who used to like to pan for gold and a couple of times he brought some of his pannings in to show me: Big droplets of elemental mercury. Declining American reserves of elemental sulphur could open up export possibilities. The start of fluorine chemistry can be traced back to the isolation of elemental fluorine, FCF 2, by Henri Moissan in 1886. The oxidation number of an atom in an elemental substance is zero. The most hydrophobic and fungitoxic compound unexpectedly proved to be elemental sulphur. Other elements occur naturally in a pure or elemental form, like sulphur or gold. They irradiated these glasses for five minutes with intense synchrotron radiation, which triggered the photochemical reduction of the gold ions to elemental gold. For example, hydrogen is always found as a molecule in its elemental form (pure hydrogen). 2Related to or embodying the powers of nature. 自然力的 a thunderstorm is the inevitable outcome of battling elemental forces 雷暴是各种自然力相较量的不可避免的结果。 Example sentencesExamples With the elemental forces of nature battering away at them, Molesey and Dulwich Hamlet put on a show of football that was at times breathtaking given the rain and wind that lashed Molesey Park Stadium. He said he believed that un-vegetated peat and mineral soil, especially at such an exposed location, was subject to elemental erosion. Synonyms natural, atmospheric, meteorological, environmental 2.1 (of an emotion) having the primitive and inescapable character of a force of nature. 〈喻〉（人的感情或行为）可与自然力相比拟的；粗犷的 the urge for revenge was too elemental to be ignored 复仇的冲动太强烈了，决不能掉以轻心。 Example sentencesExamples From the mid-1880s he began to use violent colour and linear distortions to express the most elemental emotions of fear, love, and hatred. There were no tears in her eyes, but the oceans of pure blue held every ounce of her sadness like a bucket of ice melting and overflowing with a powerful sweep of elemental passion. For me it had little to do with killing a fox, though that must have been part of the elemental excitement and fear I felt, and that everyone seemed to share. His interest is solely in the elemental feelings of this simple girl. Moreover, both moments of elemental happiness are undercut by sharp turns toward alienation and fear. People who chase the elemental thrills of raw sea creatures probably know the feeling. And so, for Freud, ‘society’ is a mutual pact for the repression of elemental lust. After a few readings, you can understand that her reality has a deep human presence, elemental sorrow, and ecstasy. But the most profound, and the hardest to convey, is the sense of elemental wonder it can inspire. If only we could believe America truly took the lesson of 9/11 - elemental disgust at war and the things of war. As he points out in the catalogue, the elemental feelings about life and death evoked in these paintings of solitary stags convey a mood of religious awe. Though it is the painful season of Christ's agony and death, it belongs in Chaucer to the elemental happiness rising from the resurrecting earth. Learning to manage the planet's resources, while keeping out of the way of its elemental fury is even more difficult. Of course, the central component was, and remains, one of raw, elemental interest. The more unvarnished and elemental the emotion, the more likely we glib sophisticates will roll our eyes: oh, please. McManus' character is defined by a relentless and elemental instinct to compete, but nothing brings out the raw desire in him like International Rules football. I'm not sure about the origins of the elemental satisfaction I derive sunk down in the cushions of my chair. There might be a third reason, namely, that this reticent, withdrawn man felt wary of immersing himself for too long in the elemental passions of the ordinary West Indian. A man comes out with a camera to catch this display of raw, elemental hatred. Synonyms basic, primary, principal, fundamental, essential, elementary, radical, root, underlying nounˌeləˈmen(t)lˌɛləˈmɛn(t)l A supernatural entity or force thought to be physically manifested by occult means. 以神秘方式呈现出来的超自然实体（或力量）；神灵，鬼怪 Example sentencesExamples I do not think elementals are evil as some people believe, you cannot class things like fire and water as evil as they are not conscious and therefore not aware of what they do. ‘The Ghosts are obviously well-prepared, to openly fight elementals like this,’ Storm said, motioning to the water. When dealing with energy or elementals, I tend to see them as dragons. If we stop assuming that they are physical creatures and work from the principle that they are some kind of nature spirits or elementals tied to a particular body of water and treat them as such, would they respond to traditional methods? With demons and elementals, one uses a thaumaturgic circle to call them into and bind them. Water elementals are powerful beings and I did not consider saying no at any time to the request. With the discovery that the Fire elementals were acting alone, the humans and elementals united to try and stop the force. But neither the light of the crystals nor the praise from the elementals could lift the darkness within her. Some mages in one of the other planes have learned how to trap them and force the elementals to do their bidding. You have different names for them; elementals, fairies, and devas for example. His output included straightforward pictures (particularly portraits), but his most characteristic works are weird images of a world of spirits and elementals. Your god acts as your spellcaster that can perform such tasks as summon elementals, raise your dead units and transform land to give your lesser units an advantage during combat. When creating him I saw him as being a slightly melancholy but essentially decent young man, and I imagined his destiny would involve being one of the people to finally bring peace between humanity and the elementals. Both humans and elementals can see right through all 17 domes and gaze upon the blue crystal-like city located within the first and largest dome at the center of Aquaria. Origin Late 15th century: from medieval Latin elementalis, from elementum ‘principle, rudiment’ (see element).
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