primitive version

collocation in English

meaningsofprimitiveandversion

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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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version
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvɜː.ʃən/uk
/ˈvɜː.ʒən/us
/ˈvɝː.ʒən/
a particular form of something that is slightly different from other forms of the ...
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(Definition ofprimitiveandversionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprimitive version

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The problem is in providing a route for incremental evolution, such that someprimitiveversionof the faculty could still be useful to the organism.
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The alien is revealed to be merely a lost,primitiveversionof the familiar, and imperial power flows less from civilizing the savage than from reviving the inner barbarian.
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It brought about a revivification of the long exploded "monetarist" school based on a particularlyprimitiveversionof the old quantity equation.
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What happened was a vivification of the long-exploded monetarist school based on the particularlyprimitiveversionof the old quantity theory of money.
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It is humiliating to have to revert to the earliest and mostprimitiveversionof prices and incomes legislation.
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They are unusual for the neobatrachials, in that they undertake inguinal amplexus, aprimitiveversionof amplexus.
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Instead, the compounders of such nostrums used aprimitiveversionof branding to distinguish their products from the crowd of their competitors.
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Cheat was aprimitiveversionof the crime of false pretences and involved obtaining property by the use of false weights or measures.
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Thisprimitiveversionof an ink brush had a wooden stalk, and a bamboo tube secures the bundle of hair to the stalk.
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During this stage, reorganization takes place in which they develop into aprimitiveversionof their adult form.
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It is often cited as taking up a whole room, implying that it was aprimitiveversionof the later familiar device used with a personal computer.
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The music sounds like aprimitiveversionof the group, the dominating sound of the record is a slow, droning psychedelic blues performed with spare instrumentation.
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