primitive form

collocation in English

meaningsofprimitiveandform

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primitive
adjective
uk
/ˈprɪm.ɪ.tɪv/us
/ˈprɪm.ə.t̬ɪv/
relating to human society at a very early stage of development, with people living in a simple way without machines or a ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofprimitiveandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprimitive form

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According to the panexperientialist, theprimitiveformmay be something so simple that we would hardly recognize it as consciousness at all.
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Aprimitiveformof matching is used to determine if the handler can actually handle the given exception.
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This would mean that someprimitiveformof life should have been possible without chirality having played any role in this.
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Don't we need aprimitiveformfor selecting and invoking a chosen return point?
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Unless we are willing to agree that a republic is a moreprimitiveformof government than a monarchy, the evolutionary theory does not work.
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Hence, what we thought was the total absence of experience is actually the presence of aprimitiveform of experience; we just cannot recognize it as experience.
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It is proposed that temporary phonological storage plays a key role in aprimitiveformof learning the phonological forms of new words across repeated exposures.
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This type of exchange left no trace in the memoranda books of the farmer because it was a moreprimitiveformof barter without monetary references.
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Note that, while the momentum-stress tensor in theprimitiveformof the momentum conservation law (28) is not symmetric, the final form of the momentum-stress tensor (31) is symmetric.
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It is aprimitiveformof debt collection.
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In the 1930s they came into competition with roads in a fairlyprimitiveform.
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Immense efforts are being made in teachers' homes, draughty church halls and other places to provide aprimitiveformof education for children.
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This is the simplest and mostprimitiveformof penalty.
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They are theprimitiveformof attack in a country which has, generally speaking, never habituated itself to the use of fire-arms.
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All government, in its mostprimitiveformor its most complicated form, be it democracy or authoritarian, can only be carried out by consent.
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That may be a veryprimitiveformof the desire for individual recognition, but it is there.
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The march does not take quite thatprimitiveformto-day.
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I believe that that is no more than an appeal to a fairlyprimitiveformof monetarism.
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