John Burroughs

One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.

American Author

Victoria Aveyard

I start out giving characters archetypes and parameters. Once I know the basics and have a rudimentary model, it's easier to carve unique curves and edges. It's quite easy to guess how a character is going to react if you know their background, and at a certain point, you realize you understand them personally.

Daniel Dennett

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

American Philosopher

Maria Montessori

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

Italian Educator

Nancy Wilson

There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.

American Musician

Rachel Nichols

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

American Actress

William Morris

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.

English Designer

Paul Bloom

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

Canadian Psychologist

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

American Journalist

Suzy Shuster

Kindness to animals seems to me to be one of the most rudimentary lessons of all.

Use 'rudimentary' to express something is at its most basic or beginning stage.

Foundation Level

'Rudimentary' suggests lack of complexity, sophistication, or advanced features.

Not Complex

In biology, 'rudimentary' describes structures that exist in a simplified or undeveloped form.

Biological Origin

Use 'rudimentary' when discussing evolutionary stages or the early development of organisms.

Evolution Context

'Rudimentary' in computing often refers to technology in its earliest form with limited functionality.

Early Stages

Describe software or hardware as 'rudimentary' when it's in the initial stages of development.

Tech Development

Use 'rudimentary' to describe basic skills that just meet the minimal requirements.

Minimal Skills

'Rudimentary' indicates that something is simplistic and has plenty of room for improvement.

Before Advanced

 "If we accept the theory of evolution, then the first dawn of synthesis of life must consist in the production of forms intermediate between the inorganic and the organic world, or between the non-living and living world, forms which possess only some of the rudimentary attributes of life" -- so, the ones I just discussed --

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 memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life now for those who didn't believe this argument we have trees and grass and our planet without the brain but that clinching evidence is this animal here the humble cease were rudimentary animal

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 So I think people in malarious parts of the world must think of malaria the way those of us who live in the temperate world think of cold and flu. Right? Cold and flu have a huge burden on our societies and on our own lives, but we don't really even take the most rudimentary precautions against it because

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 builders possessed only rudimentary technologies is particularly important because it's been proven without doubt that it was very deliberately aligned to sunrise at the winter solstice its facade is a white quartz restored by archaeologists who believe the mound was originally covered in a smooth stone

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 student in a lab working on quantum computing this research convinced him that some problems could be better solved with logic based on probabilities so for his thesis he created and built a rudimentary working prototype most experts thought his invention was interesting but didn't see it amounting

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 but it went on to pay dividends for the rest of my life. It happened when I attempted to step up a curb. Now as rudimentary as this action sounds to most of you, stepping up a curb is somewhat of a challenge for those of us without ankle movement. So I tried stepping up the curb

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 are ultimately descended every detail of its anatomy therefore is of absorbing interest its fins have long fleshy lobes at their base which make them quite unlike the fins of any other living fish and there seems little doubt that these represent the first rudimentary legs

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 And in the time since Galileo pointed that rudimentary telescope at the celestial bodies, the known universe has come to us through light, across vast eras in cosmic history. And with all of our modern telescopes,

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 And after mixing them, you could churn out a very rudimentary form of ink that would go into a cartridge, and now you could print with it. This was my "Hello, World!" of experimenting with printing with pollution.

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 spring in stringers on it the grade these are really good now owe yourself support now tying them together forms a rudimentary suspension bridge it's fine

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