rudimentとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːdɪmənt/

名詞

rudiment (複数形 rudiments)

1. A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).

   We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.

   • Shakespeare

     This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.

2. Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).

   I have the rudiments of an escape plan.

   • Milton

     But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.

   • I. Taylor

     The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.

3. (biology) A body part that no longer has a function
4. (music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.

上位語

• (biology): vestigiality

派生語

• rudimental
• rudimentary

Further reading

• rudiment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• rudiment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• rudiment at OneLook Dictionary Search

動詞

rudiment (三人称単数 現在形 rudiments, 現在分詞 rudimenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 rudimented)

1. (transitive) To ground; to settle in first principles.

アナグラム

• unmitred