Word Finder - element

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One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

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Letters are the elements of written language.

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A small part of the whole.

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an element of doubt;  an element of the picture

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The sky.

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(with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.

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exposed to the elements

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A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.

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to be in one's element

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(usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.

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A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.

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You sometimes find the hooligan element at football matches.

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A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.

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The element in this electric kettle can heat the water in under a minute.

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One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.

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To compound of elements.

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To constitute and be the elements of.

We need each element present.

The atomic weight of the element has been determined by analysis.

It added an element of surprise to everyone's run.

If the pressure alters as the water tank empties, a discontinuity occurs in the trace when the tank is refilled, and a fictitious element may be introduced into the diurnal variation.

Katie was in her element now.

He concluded there was a major element he was missing.

Veracity is the strongest element of her character.

Jowett's theological work was transitional, and yet has an element of permanence.

There was evidence of her reluctance to discuss some element of the accident.

There is also to a limited extent a European element present.

And so the conception of the action of a man subject solely to the law of inevitability without any element of freedom is just as impossible as the conception of a man's completely free action.

As an offset to this, Arbogast allied himself with the pagan element in Rome, while Valentinian was strictly orthodox.

The infusion of a considerable Scottish element into the population necessitated the formation of a congenial church.

The so-called Celtic type, exemplified by individuals of rather less than average height, brown-haired and brachycephalic, is the fundamental element in the nation and peoples the region between the Seine and the Garonne; in southern France a different type, dolichocephalic, short and with black hair and eyes, predominates.

Matter was a potentially recalcitrant element.

The second element of the name is that of the traditional founder Shapur, or Sapor of the Western historians.

Norman Lockyer, and ascribed by him to a hypothetical element helium.

As compared with Scotland, English Presbyterianism had more of the lay element.

This element was introduced via Torres Strait, and spread down the Queensland coast to portions of the New South Wales littoral, and also round the Gulf of Carpentaria, but has never been able to obtain a hold in the more arid interior.

The rare element tellurium has been discovered in New South Wales at Bingara and other parts of the northern districts, as well as at Tarana, on the western line, though at present in such minute quantities as would not repay the cost of working.

Descartes had left untouched, or nearly `so, the difficult problem of the relation between the universal element or thought and the particular desires or inclinations.

The religious element, however, which predominated in Cromwell's foreign policy inclined him to peace, and in April of that year terms were arranged by which England on the whole was decidedly the gainer.

They are brief, yet not wanting in that element of practical edification on which Chrysostom lays special weight as characteristic of the Antiochenes.

In the north there is a strong Brazilian element and the people are intensely conservative.

The military element, moreover, has frequently conspired to elect a president amenable to its demands.

The portion nearest the log-ship is known as the "stray line"; its length varies from ro to 20 fathoms, but should be sufficient to ensure that the log-ship shall be outside the disturbing element of the ship's wake.

The element is of extremely rare occurrence, being met with only in argyrodite and, to a very small extent, in euxenite.

The element occurs widely and abundantly distributed in nature both in the free state and in combination.

In combination the element chiefly occurs as metallic sulphides and sulphates.

It is thus a common mineral in all copper mines, and sometimes occurs in large masses, as in Arizona and in South Australia, where it has been worked as an ore of copper, of which element it contains 55%.

So far he is in general agreement with Anaximander, but he differs from him in the solution of the problem, disliking, as a poet and a mystic, the primary matter which satisfied the patient researcher, and demanding a more vivid and picturesque element.

And as the personal element disappears in the conception of the prophetic calling, so it tends to disappear in the prophetic view of history, and the future comes to be conceived not as the organic result of the present under the divine guidance, but as mechanically determined from the beginning in the counsels of God, and arranged under artificial categories of time.

The use of the term to mean the individualized nucleated mass of living protoplasm, which, whether with or without a limiting membrane, primitively forms the proximate histological element of the body of every organism, dates from the second quarter of the i9th century.

The great peculiarity and charm of Dr Arnold's nature seemed to lie in the supremacy of the moral and the spiritual element over his whole being.

The army of Duke William was undoubtedly very far from being wholly made up of Normans, but it was a Norman army; the element which was not Norman, though considerable, was exceptional.

Though crusades had not yet been preached, the strife with the Mussulman at once brought in the crusading element; to the Christian people of the island they were in many cases real deliverers; still, the actual process by which Sicily was won was not so very different from that by which Apulia had been won.

And the circumstances of his conquest were such that the true Normans among his following could not possibly lose themselves among the existing inhabitants of the island, while everything tended to make them lose themselves among their fellow-adventurers of other races, among whom, by the time the conquest was ended, they could hardly have been even a dominant element.

In the end something like a Sicilian nation did arise; but it arose rather by the dying out of several of the elements in the country, the Norman element among them, than by any such fusion as took place in England.

In his day a Latin element finally triumphed; but it was not a Norman or French-speaking element of any kind.

The element also occurs in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. It is present in hair and wool, and in albuminous bodies; and is also a constituent of certain vegetable oils, such as the oils of garlic and mustard.

It wanted the element of legality, or at least of formality, which distinguished both these bodies.

The Christian apologist indeed may himself seek, following John Fiske, to philosophize evolution as a restatement of natural theology - " one God, one law, one element and one far-off divine event " - and as at least pointing towards personal immortality.

The only element of real strength that the statute acquired during the first twenty years of its history came from the Elkins Act of 1903, which stipulated that the published rate should be the legal rate, and declared any departure from the published rate to be a misdemeanour.

The substitution of steel for iron as the material for rails which made possible the axle loads and the speeds of Lto-day, and, by reducing the cost of maintenance, contributed enormously to the economic efficiency of railways, was one of the most important events in the history of railways, and a scarcely less important element of progressive economy has been the continued improvement of the steel rail in stiffness of section and in toughness and hardness of material.

Carbon is the important element in controlling hardness, and the amount present is in general higher in the United States than in Great Britain.

Our data are nowhere so full as for India; where they are comparatively abundant they refer either to a civilized or semicivilized people, or to an area, like West Africa, where the influence of Islam has introduced a disturbing element.

The large majority of the inhabitants live in the East Island, and the predominating element is Scottish - Scottish shepherds having superseded the South American Gauchos.

Personal religion now became an important element in Hebrew piety and upon this there logically followed the idea of personal responsibility.

Another element in this ideal scheme which comes into prominence is the sharp distinction between holy and profane.

This element of public confession for sin became more prominent in the days when synagogal worship developed, and prayer took the place of the sacrificial offerings which could only be offered in the Jerusalem temple.