adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beginners’/elementary/intermediate/advanced class (= teaching different levels of a subject )
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An advanced class might be available.
a high school/elementary school student American English
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Her son is a high school student.
an elementary/intermediate/advanced course
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an advanced course in art and design
basic/elementary precautions
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Your home could be at risk if you don't take some basic precautions.
elementary particle
elementary school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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Only in their most elementary courses do other academic fields offer even a partial parallel.
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The workers' ignorance compounds their poverty: everywhere, failure to follow the most elementary rules of diet makes undernourishment worse.
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The most elementary lessons involved in studying ideas and consciousness seem to have been forgotten.
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Figure 1 shows several of the most elementary transformations together with the rules that generate them.
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Because otherwise we shall not even have the most elementary preconditions for this development ... By all means!
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The most elementary form of camouflage is to match the background perfectly.
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The process is difficult, and demands the performance of millions of calculations to reach even the most elementary prediction.
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The most elementary way is to leave the material on its original sheets of blotting paper, piling them up on top of each other.
■ NOUN
education
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Then, at last, elementary education will dies.
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The specialists in elementary education meanwhile focus their attention on the methods and materials appropriate to elementary years.
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They spend six years in elementary education and three years in junior high school.
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In Brown v. Board of Education , which dealt specifically with elementary education, the Court took the final logical step.
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It is no use trying to give technical teaching to our artisans without elementary education ....
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There was universal elementary education in Britain - a century behind Prussia, and three behind Saxony.
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Hence there was an extension of the powers of local government and the state intervened after 1870 to provide universal elementary education .
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There was no association of elementary education with a prescribed period of childhood.
level
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At the elementary level of existence, many of them were desperate for basic necessities.
particle
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However, I think that this ought to include a revision of the names of all the elementary particles .
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According to quantum theory, elementary particles do not really exist until an intelligent observer measures them.
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Quantum mechanics depicts space as a seething foam of uncertainty, with unimaginably short-lived elementary particles appearing and disappear ing.
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At any one moment, there is a definite and finite set of possible futures for elementary particles .
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So the question is: What are the truly elementary particles , the basic building blocks from which everything is made?
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The elementary particles known as protons, which live at the heart of every atom, will begin to decay.
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Research in theory and computation encompasses quantum field theories of elementary particles , neural networks and quantum chromodynamics.
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How powerful this explosion would be would depend on how many different species of elementary particles there are.
principle
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Technology and society generally is continuously in trouble because this elementary principle is forgotten or ignored by enthusiastic innovators.
school
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Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school , about which I remember only three things.
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Education researchers have traced her poorer performance all the way back to elementary school .
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The Education Act of 1870 set out to provide elementary schools for children up to a minimum age of ten throughout the country.
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Optimal practice in elementary school language arts will have similar balance.
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They studied third-and fourth-grade children at two elementary schools .
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Some of the elite kindergartens and elementary schools also protest the advent of baby cram schools even while admitting their young alumni.
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Big money will now be poured into cleansing the elementary schools of anti-phonics heresy.
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What we learn in elementary school sets the foundation for a life of learning.
student
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Even elementary students in fourth and fifth grades have guns.
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Modular buildings could also be placed on the La Cima site to house elementary students .
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A Hartford school lunch costs 90 cents for elementary students , $ 1. 15 at middle and high schools.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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elementary education
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an elementary course in word-processing
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Billy is taking elementary algebra this year.
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She had difficulty with even the most elementary tasks.
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The right to defend itself is an elementary right of every state.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How powerful this explosion would be would depend on how many different species of elementary particles there are.
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In many elementary classrooms there is a good deal of affection for children and various opportunities for active, hands-on learning.
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Most were given elementary training in another technical skill to facilitate harmony and cross-utilization.
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So the question is: What are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made?
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The 1988 Education Reform Act ought to mark the end of elementary education for the under-11s.
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Thom identifies seven elementary catastrophes as the only possible results when not more than four control factors are present.