rudimentary form

collocation in English

meaningsofrudimentaryandform

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rudimentary
adjective
uk
/ˌruː.dɪˈmen.tər.i/us
/ˌruː.dəˈmen.tər.i/
basic:
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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 ofrudimentaryandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But law in the mostrudimentaryformrequires sanctions,37 and the stakeholders lacked the power to punish.
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The psychological processes and abilities that underlie culture have evolved over millions of years and can often be found inrudimentaryformin animals.
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An example might be the dinosaurs' ability to care for their young, an ability that might still be seen inrudimentaryformin today's crocodilians.
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The person may also require at least somerudimentaryformof infrastructure (roads, bicycle paths) to use her bicycle meaningfully.
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These plans exist only inrudimentaryform.
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The countryman indulges in arudimentaryformof fuel efficiency by going round the countryside collecting up pieces of wood for conversion into winter logs.
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So it does, but in a veryrudimentaryformand not uniformly available all over the country.
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To plan, even to plan in therudimentaryformwhich was practised before 1945, the industry must have some idea of where it stands.
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At the moment that is inrudimentaryform.
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They have provided education for their children in arudimentaryform.
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They were only in a skeleton andrudimentaryformbefore it took them over.
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To supplement this procedure in conditions of limited visibility, the ships whistle was utilized as arudimentaryformof sonar.
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He developed a theoretical model of creative freedom that he calls projective simulation, which allows for arudimentaryformof creative behavior for artificial agents.
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Hence, money reveals itself to be the quintessential,rudimentaryformof reified social power in capitalist society.
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It was arudimentaryformof the "ciud-siorraig".
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Each soul, powered by the desire to become conscious, starts its journey in the mostrudimentaryformof consciousness.
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Nails may be used as arudimentaryformof spikes.
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It is beyond dispute, however, that the game, at any rate in arudimentaryform, was played in the 13th century.
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The cytoplasm does not contain differentiated plastids (chloroplasts or chromoplasts), although they are present inrudimentaryform(proplastids).
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This continuous dynamic is considered as arudimentaryformof knowledge or cognition and can be observed throughout life-forms.
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