<B>elegant, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>showing good taste; refined; beautifully luxurious. <BR> <I>Ex. The palace had elegant furnishings.</I> (SYN) superior. <DD><B> 2. </B>expressed with taste; correct and polished in expression or arrangement. <BR> <I>Ex. an elegant style of writing.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) nice; choice; fine. adv. <B>elegantly.</B> </DL>
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<B>elegant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a fashionable person. </DL>
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<B>elegante, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a fashionable woman. </DL>
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<B>elegiac, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or suitable for an elegy. <DD><B> 2. </B>sad; mournful; melancholy. <BR> <I>Ex. elegiac grief.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>written in elegiacs. <DD><I>noun </I> a dactylic hexameter couplet in Greek and Latin verse, the second line having no unaccented syllables in the third and sixth feet. <BR><I>expr. <B>elegiacs,</B> </I>a poem written in such verses. <BR> <I>Ex. The Heroides and Tristia of Ovid are elegiacs.</I> </DL>
<B>elegiacally, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an elegiac way or manner. <BR> <I>Ex. Lully's heroic operas end elegiacally (Listener).</I> </DL>
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<B>elegiast, </B>noun. <B>=elegist.</B></DL>
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<B>elegist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the writer of an elegy. </DL>
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<B>elegit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) a writ of execution giving a creditor the property of a debtor until the debt is paid. </DL>
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<B>elegize, </B>verb, <B>-gized,</B> <B>-gizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to write an elegy about. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to write an elegy; lament. </DL>
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<B>elegy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mournful or melancholy poem, usually a lament for the dead. Milton's <I>Lycidas</I> and Shelley's <I>Adonais</I> are elegies. <DD><B> 2. </B>a poem written in elegiac verses. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) a mournful piece to be played or sung. </DL>
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<B>elektron, </B>noun. <B>=electron.</B></DL>
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<B>elem.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>element or elements. <DD><B> 2. </B>elementary. </DL>
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<B>eleme, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of dried Smyrna figs from Turkey. </DL>
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<B>element, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of the simple substances, such as gold, iron, carbon, sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen. An element cannot be separated into simpler parts by ordinary chemical means. There are over 100 elements, each composed of atoms that are chemically alike. <BR> <I>Ex. All material things in the universe known to our senses are composed of one or more chemical elements (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>one of the parts of which anything is made up. <BR> <I>Ex. Honesty, industry, and kindness are elements of a good life.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a simple or necessary part to be learned first; first principle; rudiment. <BR> <I>Ex. We learn the elements of arithmetic before the seventh grade.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>one of the four substances--earth, water, air, and fire--that were thought in ancient times to make up all other things. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) natural or suitable surroundings. <BR> <I>Ex. Every animal has his element assigned him, the birds have the air and man and beasts the earth (Samuel Johnson).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>the part that does the work in an electrical device. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Military.) <DD><B> a. </B>any unit or part of a larger group, formation, or maneuver. <BR> <I>Ex. A column or squad is a military element.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a unit of two or three planes flyingin formation. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Mathematics.) <DD><B> a. </B>a member of a set. <DD><B> b. </B>a very small part of a given magnitude similar in nature to the whole magnitude. <DD><B> c. </B>one of the lines, planes, or points that make up a geometrical figure. <DD><B> 9. </B>(Electricity.) <DD><B> a. </B>one of the two unlike pieces that make up a voltaic couple. <DD><B> b. </B>the two electrodes of a voltaic couple when assembled. <DD><B> 10. </B>(Radio, U.S.) an electrode in a vacuum tube. <DD><B> 11. </B>(Astronomy.) one of the data required for the solution of a problem. <DD><B> 12. </B>(Mechanics.) one of the parts making up a pair. <BR><I>expr. <B>be in one's element,</B> </I>to be in the surroundings in which one feels at home. <BR> <I>Ex. A real bookworm, he is in his element in the library.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>be out of one's element,</B> </I>to be away from the surroundings in which one feels at home. <BR> <I>Ex. She was out of her element on the farm. When they came to make boards ... they were quite out of their element (Daniel Defoe).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the elements,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>the forces of the air, especially in bad weather. </I> <I>Ex. The raging storm seemed a war of the elements.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the bread and wine used in the Eucharist. </DL>
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<B>element 104,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artificial, radioactive chemical element, the first of the transactinide series, produced in the form of various isotopes chiefly by bombarding californium with carbon ions; rutherfordium; kurchatovium. </DL>
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<B>element 105,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artificial, radioactive chemical element produced by bombarding californium with nitrogen nuclei or by bombarding americium with neon nuclei; hahnium. </DL>
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<B>element 106,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artificial, radioactive chemical element, the 14th of the transuranium elements and the third of the transactinides, produced by bombarding californium with oxygen ions or lead nuclei with chromium and molybdenum ions. </DL>
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<B>element 107,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artificial, radioactive chemical element produced by bombarding bismuth with nuclei of chromium. </DL>
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<B>elemental, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of the forces of nature, especially the weather. <BR> <I>Ex. The storm showed elemental fury in its violence.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>as found in nature; simple but powerful. <BR> <I>Ex. Hunger is an elemental feeling.</I> (SYN) natural. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=elementary.</B> (SYN) fundamental, basic. <DD><B> 4. </B>of the four elements--earth, water, air, and fire. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) of the nature of an ultimate constituent; not compounded; simple. <DD><B> 6. </B>being a necessary or basic part. adv. <B>elementally.</B> </DL>
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<B>elementalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a method or theory that deifies the elemental powers of nature. <DD><B> 2. </B>a system based upon elemental forces or characters. </DL>
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<B>elementalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an adherent of elementalism. </DL>
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<B>elementarily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an elementary manner. </DL>
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<B>elementariness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or state of being elementary. </DL>
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<B>elementary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>dealing with the simple, necessary parts to be learned first; having to do with first principles; introductory. <BR> <I>Ex. a course in elementary botany.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>made up of only one chemical element; not a compound. <BR> <I>Ex. Silver is an elementary substance.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having to do with a chemical element or elements. <DD><B> 4. </B>elemental (def. 6). <DD><B> 5. </B>of or having to do with basic or primary instruction. <BR> <I>Ex. elementary education.</I> </DL>
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<B>elementary particle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) one of the fundamental units of which matter is composed; fundamental particle. The elementary particles include the electron, proton, and neutron, and the neutrino, neutretto, lambda, photon, and meson. </DL>
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<B>elementary school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a school of six grades for pupils from about six to about twelve years of age, followed by junior high school. <DD><B> 2. </B>a school of eight grades for pupils from about six to about fourteen, followed by a four-year high school. </DL>
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<B>elementoid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resembling an element; having the appearance of a simple substance. <BR> <I>Ex. an elementoid compound.</I> </DL>
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<B>elements, </B>noun, pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>element.</B> </DL>
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<B>elemi, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fragrant resin yielded by various tropical trees, used in ointments and plasters, in making varnish, etc. </DL>
<B>elenctic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with refutation. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with cross-examination. </DL>
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<B>eleoptene, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) the liquid part or hydrocarbon of an essential oil. </DL>
