rudiment

Main Entry:
rudiment [roo-duh-muhnt]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: basis
Synonyms: base, bed, bottom, cornerstone, foot, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, ground, groundwork, rest, resting place, root, seat, substructure, support
Main Entry: rudiments
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fundamentals
Synonyms: ABCs, basics, beginnings, elements, essentials, first principles, foundation, guts*, heart, nitty-gritty, principles
Main Entry: basis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: foundation for belief, action
Synonyms: antecedent, assumption, authority, axiom, backbone, background, backing, base, bedrock, cause, center, chief ingredient, core, crux, data, dictum, essence, essential, evidence, explanation, footing, fundamental, hard fact, heart, infrastructure, justification, keynote, keystone, law, nexus, nucleus, postulate, premise, presumption, presupposition, principal element, principle, proof, reason, root, rudiment, sanction, security, source, substratum, support, theorem, theory, underpinning, warrant
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: start of an event or action
Synonyms: alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top
Antonyms: completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination
Main Entry: egg
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seed, cell; embryo of an animal
Synonyms: bud, cackle, cackleberry, germ, nucleus, oospore, ovum, roe, rudiment, spawn, yellow eye
Main Entry: essential
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: necessity, basic
Synonyms: ABCs, bottom line, brass tacks, condition, element, essence, fire and ice, fundamental, groceries, guts*, heart, meat and potatoes, must, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, part and parcel, precondition, prerequisite, principle, quintessence, requirement, requisite, rudiment, sine qua non, stuff, substance, vital part, where one's at
Notes: the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...)
Antonyms: accessory, auxiliary, nonessential, subsidiary, throwaway, trivia
Main Entry: fundamental
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: basic, essential part
Synonyms: ABCs, axiom, basis, bottom line, brass tacks, coal and ice, component, constituent, cornerstone, element, factor, foundation, guts*, heart, law, nitty-gritty, principium, principle, rock bottom, rudiment, rule, sine qua non, theorem
Antonyms: addition, auxiliary, extra, subordinate, trivia
Main Entry: germ
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning
Synonyms: bud, cause, egg, embryo, inception, nucleus, origin, ovule, ovum, root, rudiment, seed, source, spark, spore, sprig, sprout
Main Entry: seed
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning, source
Synonyms: berry, bud, cell, conceit, concept, conception, core, corn, ear, egg, embryo, germ, grain, image, impression, inkling, kernel, notion, nucleus, nut, ovule, ovum, particle, rudiment, semen, spark, sperm, spore, start, suspicion
Notes: cede means to give over, surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another - while a seed is a small hard fruit or a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat
a spore is a lone reproductive cell capable of producing a plant without combining with another cell; a seed develops from sexual recombination of genes from within one plant or two separate plants
Antonyms: effect, end, ending, result
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