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elements

/ˈɛləmənts/

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What does elements mean?

noun

  1. plural of element
  2. The weather, such as wind or rain; environmental conditions considered as a source of danger, wear, etc.
  3. The basic tenets of an area of knowledge, basics, fundamentals.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. The bread and wine of the Eucharist.

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/ˈɛləmənts/

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The Bird Woman laughed alone, for to them the situation had been too serious to develop any of the elements of fun.
Gene Stratton-PorterFrecklesProject Gutenberg ebook #111
Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the material, world depend, had complained.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
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As I thought of the deep calm of these elements, compared with all those passions brooding imperceptibly within the Nautilus, I shuddered.
Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #164
It seemed almost as if all the hair had come off his face from his thrusting it through a throng of elements.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonThe wisdom of Father BrownProject Gutenberg ebook #223
The various elements we have enumerated as entering into the genesis of the majority of revolutions will not suffice to classify them.
Gustave Le BonThe Psychology of RevolutionProject Gutenberg ebook #448