How To Use Rudimentary In A Sentence

Third, the conical re-entry vehicle was a vast improvement on the rudimentary models put on parade in the past. Times, Sunday Times
For a very long time ecclesiastics were the only keepers and users of documents and books, and for these precious materials they created special although rudimentary structures: the library, the archive, the scriptorium.
The classroom equipment is pretty rudimentary.
Even my feet are beginning to move slightly and it takes bombs to bring out any rudimentary terpsichorean talents that I possess.
Indeed, it is a sad comment about the world in which we live that most women in the so called 'Third World do not have access to even the most rudimentary gynaecological or obstetric healthcare and that vaginal fistulae are so common. The Invention of the Sims Speculum - Surgical Improvisation

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They instantly fall into certain companionable roles: the smartest one lends an educated perspective on a topic, the most outrageous one cracks the kind of jokes she wouldn’t dare to if a man were around, the least intellectually secure one feels safe enough to ask the most rudimentary questions. The Uses of Enchantment
Pistillate flowers have the same perianth but the number of parts is more variable; staminodes are well developed with or without a rudimentary anther.
Near the boathouse was a larger display, several easels with work clearly by the same artist, the featured artist, Derek Huff, who stood bathing in the glory offered him by the people of that rural and rudimentary county. Vermilion Drift
Sorry to bother you with such a rudimentary question.
Street sweeping requires a rudimentary understanding of how a brush works. Times, Sunday Times
A large proportion are children who have barely obtained rudimentary education and live in shacks without basic amenities.
The dermoid contained a cerebral vesicle, a rudimentary eye, a canine and a molar tooth, and a piece of bone. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
This prolonged rachilla sometimes bears a minute glume, which is of course rudimentary. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
These crude forms of tool use clearly must be regarded as a rudimentary form of culture. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Take, again, another set of very remarkable facts, — the existence of what are called rudimentary organs, organs for which we can find no obvious use, in the particular animal economy in which they are found, and yet which are there. Essays
U.S. officials believe that a rudimentary missile defence system might be operational by 2005.
Occasionally babies are born without a thumb or with a rudimentary thumb.
Having no business education except that acquired from common experience and observation, and no schooling except of the most rudimentary kind, he would express himself clearly in unpolished but forcible and terse language, and would write out with his own hand a contract which, for precision and completeness, few lawyers could equal. Living in Dryden: John Southworth
The latter is covered by the indusium griseum, a thin sheet of rudimentary cortex containing (on each side) the delicate medial and lateral longitudinal striae.
There, it has come to seem ridiculously blithe, ignoring the block that the political crisis puts on all but rudimentary commercial life. Times, Sunday Times
The box bellows is a simple device which can be constructed by anyone with rudimentary carpentry skills.
Every part except the omasum, even including a rudimentary reticulum, is represented and occupies the same relative position. 11 The Bearded Pig
The conventional view held that cultural impress on the New World was rudimentary, artless, too recent to have mellowed the garish profusion of nature.
He has a rudimentary ability to read, but he can only read simple words.
The introduction is quite rudimentary, suitable for complete beginners to programming.
One of Whitehead's most controversial notions is in fact his panpsychism what David Ray Griffin calls "pan-experientialism", the idea that all of reality possesses, however rudimentary, an inner or subjective life. Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum
His understanding of the language is very rudimentary.
The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
The French built an infrastructure and created a rudimentary education system.
The two events got me thinking about Adam Smith because, in some rudimentary way, they relate to a question of supply and demand.
School inspectors' reports suggest that education was rudimentary.
My earlier post was an admittedly rudimentary attempt to come up with a more accurate way of describing gender differences and complementarities.
When these vessels form in the distal esophagus and stomach, the usually small rudimentary left gastric vein dilates and varices develop.
Director James Robinson provides only the most rudimentary blocking, often, as in the muddled party scene, to the detriment of the drama.
And, those conditions can only be described as subhuman - dangerously filthy, and without the most rudimentary sanitary facilities or basic medical care. William Fisher: Immigration: Emma Lazarus Redux
Until a few months ago 31-year-old Denise Cannon was a beauty therapist who confesses that her knowledge of the technicalities of the average automobile was little more than rudimentary.
One teacher remembers his early drawings as ‘scribbles’; others recall rudimentary figures obliterated by cross-hatching.
It could never have been described as acutely sensitive, and it never developed much beyond the rudimentary stage. The Long Trick
His rudimentary education prompted Lumumba to appoint him as his secretary for the duration of the negotiations.
Though he can crawl, and may have clinging to him certain brute instincts that may be the relics of his anthropoidal days, he has also, thank God, divine desires and discontents, and certain rudimentary wings. Without Dogma
Acalyptrata: those muscid flies in which alulae are absent or rudimentary. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
It often causes one regret to see symphonies of magnificent colour wasted here in pictures of boating men; and there, in pictures of café corners; and we have arrived at a degree of complex intellectuality which is no longer satisfied with these rudimentary themes. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
Were they kitted out in rudimentary loincloths, or elegant tunics cut on the bias? Times, Sunday Times
It is abundantly clear that no pro-choicer on this thread has betrayed even the most rudimentary understanding of the pro-life position. Punishment
In the Colonial Era, chemical manufacturing was confined to such rudimentary products as indigo dyes, naval stores, leather, glass, soap, and candles.
In order to cast a countable vote, a voter must read and follow a set of rudimentary instructions.
The rudimentary type was a simple chamber or cella, with a loggia open to the air except for two columns standing between the two extremities of the side walls, which terminated in pilasters known as 'antae'. [ The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
Diagram of the four secondary germinal layers, transverse section through the metazoic embryo: Figure 1.74 of an annelid, Figure 1.75 of a vermalian. a primitive gut, dd ventral glandular layer, df ventral fibre-layer, hm skin-fibre-layer, hs skin-sense-layer, u beginning of the rudimentary kidneys, n beginning of the nerve-plates.) The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
In rare cases the first thoracic rib may be rudimentary and similar in appearance to cervical ribs.
THE TIBIA belongs to the class of long bones and the fibula is quite rudimentary, being represented by a stylet-shaped bone that lies posterior to, and along the outer border of the tibia. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
The development is initiated as a hyphal knot of 0.2 mm or less in diameter, which rapidly develops into a tiny primordium containing the rudimentary tissues of the future pileus and stipe.
Many of these collections, however, suffer from similar flaws: they devote too much effort to collecting case law rather than other authorities, they overemphasize recent works especially those originally created in digital form, they do not adequately hyperlink between related documents in the collection, their citator functions are haphazard and rudimentary, and they do not enable easy user authentication against official reference sources. Two Forthcoming Papers on Crowdsourcing, Open Access, Wikisource, Legal & Humanities Research « ResourceShelf
River transport is often the only way for people to travel between towns and ferry disasters are not that rare as boats are frequently overloaded and often lack even the most rudimentary safety equipment.
Musically, the songs are built around rudimentary drums and guitar (yes, they do use their fuzzbox), occasional bass and unbridled enthusiasm.
Several hours earlier we had been given a rudimentary map, told how to switch the engine on or off and that was it.
Kraftwerk used and combined synthesizers, vocoders, custom-built sequencers, rudimentary rhythm boxes, and home made drum pads in a fashion unlike anything previously heard.
Again, with reference to the homology of the ossicles of the ear with the opercular bones in fish, "employing other resources equally hidden and rudimentary, Nature makes profitable use of the four tiny ossicles lodged in the auditory passage, and, raising them in fish to the greatest possible dimensions, forms from them these broad opercula ...." (p. 85). Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
Thus, in our common dog-violet the perfect flowers rarely produce seed, while the rudimentary cleistogamic flowers do so in abundance. Darwinism (1889)
The ‘Surge’ was a short-term rudimentary change in tactics and nothing more. There Is No Winning in Iraq
Although there is no substantive evidence of apes having a theory of mind, they may possess its precursor - a rudimentary self-awareness.
There, it has come to seem ridiculously blithe, ignoring the block that the political crisis puts on all but rudimentary commercial life. Times, Sunday Times
Isabel Sublette spelled "canape" and "rudimentary" to win the Ventura County Spelling Bee Monday night at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo. Ventura County Star Stories
Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their potentiality: this occasionally occurs with the mammae of male mammals, which have been known to become well developed and to secrete milk. Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
It is this bodilessness in the Employer -- this very simple rudimentary whiffling communion the Employer has with his usually distinguished and accomplished Head Employee, which the Head Employee finds it hardest to bear. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak
There are fixed ropes, ladders and even rudimentary staircases cut into the hard snow, leading to the main route being dubbed a ‘yak track’.
In his shabby Cologne apartment in 1973, Brinkmann used rudimentary means to improvise on a few scraps of paper.
(or subintestinal) vein, mt myotome, mm muscular mass of the provertebra, mp middle plate, ug prorenal duct, lh body-cavity, e ectoderm of the rudimentary extremities, mz mesenchymic cells, z point where the myotome and nephrotome separate. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
In the reptiles (tortoises and crocodiles) a later dorsal part is joined to this earlier ventral part of the rudimentary diaphragm, a pair of subvertebral muscles rising from the vertebral column and being added as "columns" to the transverse partition. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
More info at website of the Brooklyn-based label that released the full-length version, temporaryresidence.com, and at Eluvium/Cooper’s site, eluvium.net, which houses two additional MP3s: the lush, if peculiarly detuned, “Under the Water It Glowed” and the deceptively rudimentary piano piece “Genius and the Thieves,” which sounds like Rufus Wainwright playing a Harold Budd cover. Disquiet » Three Eluvium MP3s
But their rudimentary balconies are home to old bicycles and hanging washing rather than flags and banners. Times, Sunday Times
Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a "19th century plantation-style" model relying on field hands, rudimentary equipment, long hours, little pay, no benefits, under a basically "inhumane, anachronistic (system crying) out for reform. Modern Slavery in America
Wing membrane from base of toes; lobule at the heel very narrow and long; last rudimentary caudal vertebra free; fur of the body, wings, and interfemoral membrane pale buff throughout. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
In point of fact, what I am conceding is my disappointment in discovering that Ayers does not appear to be familiar with even the most rudimentary theoretical perspectives found throughout Capitalists and Conquerors. A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange
They were introduced in rudimentary fashion in Second Edition and became a full-fledged system in Third Edition. 4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 5: Skills « Geek Related
His seduction technique was rudimentary, to say the least. Times, Sunday Times
They only had rudimentary medicines like peppermint cure and hot lemon drinks to fight off the virus.
The negative shapes that result - multiple concavities as baroquely complex as the engendering ovals are rudimentary - echo with revised color choices and adjusted contours.
Suggestions on how to make a vlog ranged from rudimentary to sophisticated.
Medical, education and public infrastructure is almost non-existent and what is there is rudimentary.
The excellence of their rugby players is based upon a profound grasp of the rudimentary. Times, Sunday Times
Midwives often performed a rudimentary christening ceremony for the all-too-many infants losing the fight for life soon after their birth. 94 Mary's status as a wealthy householder and a member of the royal family endowed her with significant thaumaturgical credentials, which easily qualified her to perform christening ceremonies. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The majority lack access to the most rudimentary services - health, education, welfare and even roads.
I can sight-read a medium ballad, but have never had to develop my reading beyond a rudimentary level.
But their rudimentary balconies are home to old bicycles and hanging washing rather than flags and banners. Times, Sunday Times
They were given only rudimentary training in the job.
Few consultants assessed the effectiveness of teaching, and feedback to juniors was rudimentary.
But their rudimentary balconies are home to old bicycles and hanging washing rather than flags and banners. Times, Sunday Times
The pistil consists of a stigma supported on the style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a pistil, which is in a rudimentary state, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed, and is clothed with hairs as in other compositae, for the purpose of brushing the pollen out of the surrounding anthers. On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical)
The pistil consists of a stigma supported on a style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a rudimentary pistil, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed and is clothed in the usual manner with hairs, which serve to brush the pollen out of the surrounding and conjoined anthers. Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
He became interested in rocketry as a teenager and constructed balsa-wood missiles filled with a rudimentary propellant of powder from shotgun shells and glue. Rocket scientist Robert C. Truax, who built ship for Evel Knieval, dies at 93
In 1892, there was only a rudimentary understanding of the relationship between increased intraocular pressure and optic neuropathy.
The characterisation is rudimentary and the prose sometimes clunky. The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle – review
There was natural concern from the England team, but it remains unclear as to whether the object was fired from an air gun or a more rudimentary device.
He has only a rudimentary knowledge of the subject.
Encourage the child to begin rudimentary brushing; however, parents should remain the primary caregiver in oral hygiene procedures.
But the bust format ensures a rudimentary form without gestural and signifying elements or excrescences.
Young ceratodus six weeks after issuing from the egg. s spiral fold of gut, b rudimentary belly-fin. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
rudimentary plans
Gradually, I acquired a rudimentary knowledge of music.
And still more rudimentary is that a woman (any individual, really) has the right to choose whether intercourse actually happens in the first place. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Choice BEGINS at conception
Roasted by sun and snow, men and women drive goats up and down dale, harvest tobacco with the most rudimentary equipment, make bricks from natural clay which dry in the sun, or try selling handfuls of raspberries or plums.
Professor Macalister draws our attention to the fact that Mr. Darwin uses the term panniculus in the generalised sense of any sheet of muscle acting on the skin.) (to put the question under another point of view, is it the primary or aboriginal function of the panniculus to move the dermal appendages or the skin itself?); but both are superficial, and would perhaps together become rudimentary. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
The result was a rudimentary understanding of the building blocks of a computer's brain. Times, Sunday Times
Hampered by poor intelligence—not until April 1941 did SOE possess even the most rudimentary information about matters like French taxis and trains—SOE had managed to establish only a few reliable reseaux, or underground circuits. Shadow Knights
Without memory we would have to relearn everything every day and society would remain rudimentary at best. Blank Minds « Colleen Anderson
In Chile it produced latifundia in the interior and some rudimentary manufacturing activity with owner/ worker relations in the towns. The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
But their rudimentary balconies are home to old bicycles and hanging washing rather than flags and banners. Times, Sunday Times
The knowledge of reading and writing and ciphering, in short, rudimentary training in this colony, has been very thorough. Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
Figure 193 _D_ shows the embryo much farther advanced, with the two pairs of lobes (_md_, rudimentary mandibles; _d_, rudimentary pad-like organs, seen in a more advanced stage in _E_), and the bilobate tail (_st_). Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
They occur frequently in the mines, which often lack even rudimentary safety equipment such as ventilators to disperse the gas.
The long bones of the limbs appeared as rudimentary ossicles.
Are rudimentary disguises sufficient to fool the filth?
His understanding of the language is very rudimentary.
Gradually, I acquired a rudimentary knowledge of music.
One point makes the above view more probable in Acropera than in other cases, viz. the presence of rudimentary placentae or testae, for More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
Large areas have been deforested to dedicate them to a rudimentary and migrant agriculture; forest fires are intense and frequent, destroying the young trees and therefore the regeneration capacity of the forest.
Children's works are very rudimentary ’, he said, ‘because children are very unskilful, and because their little minds are very restricted.
They occur frequently in Chinese mines, which often lack even rudimentary safety equipment such as ventilators to disperse the gas.
Compositæ, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a pistil, which is in a rudimentary state, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed, and is clothed with hairs as in other compositæ, for the purpose of brushing the pollen out of the surrounding anthers. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
Few consultants assessed the effectiveness of teaching, and feedback to juniors was rudimentary.
The rudimentary décor, an hommage to the old Globe, does feature a large, tilted, overhanging mirror.
This botanist observed and figured a flower of _Orchis palustris_ with tetramerous arrangement of parts, that is to say there were four outer segments to the perianth, four petals, of which two were lip-like, four stamens, three of which were rudimentary, and an ovary with four parietal placentæ. [ Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Next door is the rudimentary bathroom, with another bowl resting on a small set of shelves and a tin 'dunny'. Times, Sunday Times
They had few rights and a very rudimentary education, in some cases none if the money was not available to pay for it.
Rudimentary tracheal metameres invaginate but lack primary branching and interconnections.
No human soul is left destitute of the visiting of God's spirit, and however rudimentary the moral life may be, no bounds can be set to the growth which may, and which God intends should, result wherever the human will is consentient. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
A DJ assists them in scratching through a rudimentary hip-hop beat.
Acalyptrata: those muscid flies in which alulae are absent or rudimentary. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
They were given only rudimentary training in the job.
And here are the steps of its ascent from the mud to man: simple reflex action, compound reflex action, memory, habit, rudimentary reason, and abstract reason. The Other Animals
Emergency backup generators will not be adequate to maintain even a rudimentary water supply.
In Kleist, the notion that language can tell a coherent story about its own signifying capacities is unsettled as even the most rudimentary distinction between form and content proves to be at once too specific and too abstract. Article Abstracts
Darwin: We see why certain characters are far more serviceable than others for classification; why adaptive characters, though of paramount importance to the beings, are of hardly any importance in classification; why characters derived from rudimentary parts, though of no service to the beings, are often of high classificatory value; and why embryological characters are often the most valuable of all. A New Book
Or chance my theory - based neither on science nor the most rudimentary understanding of traffic flow - that all lanes progress equally in traffic jams? Times, Sunday Times
The organism that develops a rudimentary eye is able to adjust its behaviour in accordance with its new sensory input.
As an example, the ceremony has recently left the procaryote stage and has developed rudimentary genitalia. The QOHA: The Ominous Comma!
The organism that develops a rudimentary eye is able to adjust its behaviour in accordance with its new sensory input.
Forget the picture of fuddled labourers reeling in fields at harvest time after draughts of the farmer's rudimentary cider.
I had no idea – beyond the most rudimentary, high-school sex-ed posterboard kind of understanding – what might be the implications of circumcising or not circumcising. The First Cut | Her Bad Mother
When I first got into it, the visual language of television animation was very, very rudimentary.
Some breeds of dog have only rudimentary tails.
Instead of rudimentary trilobites, I noticed remains of a more perfect order of beings, amongst others ganoid fishes and some of those sauroids in which palaeontologists have discovered the earliest reptile forms. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
One of my proudest achievements as an adult is having picked up a rudimentary understanding of test cricket.
In a much smaller, rudimentary way, Kris Waldherr Art and Words the storefront is my Red House. 2008 June | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr
In the early seventies, aviation throwbacks would haul their rudimentary hang gliders up some remote hillock and leap off.
Front line dugouts ranged from small ‘funk-holes’ scooped into the sides of trenches and walled with wood, corrugated iron, or groundsheets, to larger, deeper structures with several rooms and rudimentary furniture.
Ovary rudimentary in the male flower; unilocular and uniovulate in the female. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
One teacher remembers his early drawings as ‘scribbles’; others recall rudimentary figures obliterated by cross-hatching.
Pistillate flowers have the same perianth but the number of parts is more variable; staminodes are well developed with or without a rudimentary anther.
If it works – even on a rudimentary level – Hameroff will be vindicated, and it won't matter at all that nobody knows what the extremal is. Continuation…
Leibniz's theory of monadic "perception" is obscure in part because it does not involve — in its most rudimentary form — the experience of sense perception, or sensation; it erodes the absolute distinction (dear to Kant) between thinking and perceiving — an idea of explosive importance for Club Monad
His skin was fair as a woman's, far more satiny, and no rudimentary hair-growth marred its white lustre. Chapter 4
I have only a rudimentary knowledge of chemistry.
Consequently, the rudimentary cadastral requirements for levying a tax on real property have evolved slowly in Africa, and the land tax experience is limited, for all practical purposes, to urban land and improvements.
These crude forms of tool use clearly must be regarded as a rudimentary form of culture. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Though the labyrinth has been explored for decades, the persistence of archaic survey techniques has led to only rudimentary maps.
Children's works are very rudimentary ’, he said, ‘because children are very unskilful, and because their little minds are very restricted.
So far, Wilbur Smith has proposed the parish be divided into three zoning tiers: an urban tier with stricter zoning codes around Bossier City, an "exurban" tier with looser requirements outside of urban tier, all the way around from Benton to south Bossier, and a third, rural tier with just rudimentary zoning in the furthest reaches of the parish. Undefined
The practice of infanticide decreased since children could now be used in rudimentary agricultural tasks.
The ovules are the rudimentary seeds, situated in a case at the base of the pistils, each consisting of a central portion, called the nucleus, which is surrounded by two coats, the inner called the secundine, the outer the primine. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.
Results:The SEP in the study included cornual pregnancy, interstitial tubal pregnancy, varian pregnancy, cervical pregnancy, abdominal pregnancy and rudimentary horn of uterus pregnancy.
It comes from a huge football ground with two full-size pitches and a rudimentary grandstand packed to the roof with people. Times, Sunday Times
Many instances of rudimentary development of the penis have been recorded, most of them complicated with cryptorchism or other abnormality of the sexual organs. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Mallory had only rudimentary oxygen equipment, no radio, a basic cotton tent and hobnail boots.
It is ambient and it is thought-provoking on even the most rudimentary level, with expression seldom falling into obviousness - either in terms of lyrics, melody or tonality.
Like our five fingers, our ear-bones, our rudimentary caudal appendage, or our other 'vestigial' peculiarities, they may remain as indelible tokens of events in our race-history. Pragmatism
With only a rudimentary education in Afrikaans they are denied access to a functional mastery of English.
Tigers are caught and killed using rudimentary wire snares, often deep within national parks, and sold for their skins and body parts in an illegal trade industry that spans much of Asia.
When overcrowding occurred in the water, some of these fish, using their fins as rudimentary feet, took to the land and changed from gill breathing to lung breathing.
Individuals have large broad heads with rudimentary eyes hidden under the skin.
And by late September, despite Dan's very rudimentary knowledge of tree taxonomy, he could clearly distinguish elders, hazels and sloes not to mention mountain ash and wild plums.
On examination of the ordinary inflorescence, there will be seen at the base of the upper of two flowers a small rudimentary bract, having a swollen circular or ring-like base, from which proceeds a small awl-shaped process, representing the midrib of an abortive leaf. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
It comes from a huge football ground with two full-size pitches and a rudimentary grandstand packed to the roof with people. Times, Sunday Times
He has only a rudimentary knowledge of the subject.
these rudimentary truths
In the mammalia, for instance, the males possess rudimentary mammae; in snakes one lobe of the lungs is rudimentary; in birds the Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
The atrophied end of the caecum is the famous rudimentary organ, the vermiform appendix. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
He began by caddying for his father, but quickly started playing himself - despite the rudimentary nature of the courses. Times, Sunday Times
Brooks says there's an "inchoate longing for change," and the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that "inchoate" means "just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Negotiating Against America: Why Obama Shouldn't Listen to David Brooks
In remote areas, there are not even roads let alone rudimentary education and health facilities.
In 1991, Torvalds began experimenting with a rudimentary operating system kernel.
How many blind or visually impaired people do we know who can go out and buy something as rudimentary as a Perkins braillewriter today?
The network of tunnels, containing command posts, armouries, kitchens and rudimentary hospitals eventually stretched for 150 miles to within striking distance of Saigon, running at one point under an American base camp.
Snake-like robots already exist in rudimentary forms. Boing Boing: January 12, 2003 - January 18, 2003 Archives
It carries a highly destructive payload, and also has some rudimentary polymorphic properties.
It comes from a huge football ground with two full-size pitches and a rudimentary grandstand packed to the roof with people. Times, Sunday Times
What's more, the industry has switched its focus from offering high-end boxes that do everything but cook dinner to more rudimentary, less expensive converters that can deliver digital signals and elementary interactive services.
Note that the ‘rudimentary legs’ on some snakes are acknowledged as having a function during reproduction, as claspers during copulation.
Her job was to set up large rudimentary computers called bombes to decode the German messages. Messenger News
I still wince whenever Roberto reminds me that for centuries, the process of making mole culminated not with the whiz of the blender among the most useful tools in the modern Mexican kitchen, but with painstaking grinding on a shallow, rudimentary stone mortar called a metate. Holy-Moly Lobster Mole
Moreover, while China has discussed developing a rudimentary space station, there is no evidence of the development of spacecraft, like landers, needed for lunar missions.
But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box. Leaving It to the Professionals
I have only a rudimentary grasp of physics.
The typical phrasal verb site will offer some kind of definition and categorisation of types, a list of phrasal verbs (seldom if ever selected and organized in terms of frequency), and some rudimentary exercises, almost always of the gap-fill type. P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT
There are few stunts and only rudimentary fight sequences, dependent upon fire power rather than martial artistry.
MONKEYS and apes have a sense of morality and the rudimentary ability to tell right from wrong, according to new research. Times, Sunday Times
Some had crudely welded steel tube frames and rudimentary suspensions.
The word "plumule" struck me; it turns out it's pronounced PLOOM-yule /"plu:myu:l/, and it means 'rudimentary shoot, bud, or bunch of undeveloped leaves in a seed' (it's from Latin plūmula, the diminutive of plūma 'small soft feather, down'), so that "shoots and plumules of one's experience" is a very tasty phrase, incorporating both the visible (as it were) and the embryonic shoots sprouting up from the depths of our lived lives and mulish memories. Languagehat.com: PLUMULE.
I can sight-read a medium ballad, but have never had to develop my reading beyond a rudimentary level.
Since I hadn't received a formal graphic design education, I did not have the rudimentary skills required to develop a mature design style.

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