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Before filming began, she took a ballet crash course with the choreographer Belinda Murphy, who taught Weir the rudiments of dancing in pointe shoes and shaped the extended ballet sequence that opens the film.

Colette Saulnier, not yet 4, was already learning the rudiments of music, and even at that age she was drawn to the work of her famous neighbor.

Last year, for example, Hanna and colleagues grew such cells into embryo mimics that sported a beating heart, the rudiments of a brain and spinal cord, and incipient muscles.

Second fundamental term: académie, noun, French, a depiction of a nude model, made from life by an art student mastering the rudiments of painting and drawing.

The manager wanted all staffers to learn the rudiments of production, and Ms. Walters was an avid pupil.