element
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- noun
- /ˈɛlɪmənt/
- Archaic
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elemento
- So the four elements, earth, air, fire and water, right?
- the four elements
- the element earth
- the element water
So the four elements, earth, air, fire and water, right?
- So the four elements, earth, air, fire and water, right?
- Originally, ether is a fifth element, a quintessence, right?
- And then we look at the breakdown of the elements, fire, Earth, air and water.
- Fire in some sense is the most important of the elements.
- The alchemists were people who who believed in the idea of the four elements, earth, fire, air, and water.
- Well, for centuries, deep thinkers thought of earth, air, fire, and water as the fundamental elements.
- And we know the elements from the Hindi tradition like air, water, fire, ether and earth, right?
- Water is the perpetually sacrificing element, and yet it doesn't go away, does it?
- Michael is fire and Chotel is water and both elements are intriguing, mysterious and dangerous.
- I have a course on the, on the four elements, the spirituality of the four elements on how to toward a meaningful mood.
Examples
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Ancient civilizations considered water to be one of the four elements along with earth, wind, and fire.
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So basically it humans are made of elements, the four elements, the four classical elements, earth, air, fire and water.
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So at some point you must have made the first elements in the universe.
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Creatures formed from the primary elements: Air, water, fire, earth.
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The alchemists were people who who believed in the idea of the four elements, earth, fire, air, and water.
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It represents one of the four elements: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air.
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Aristotle characterizes water and earth, along with fire and air, as the elements from which all sublunary bodies are made.
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Both Yavapai and Apache traditions revere and consider water a sacred element of life.
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According to ancient philosophy, the four elements of nature are earth, air, fire, and water.
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In many cultures, the elements of earth, air, fire, and water are believed to make up all matter.
Idioms
Compounds
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A very small amount of a metal or mineral the body needs to stay healthy
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A pure substance made of atoms that all have the same number of protons, like oxygen or gold
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A metal part inside a kettle, oven, or heater that gets hot to make things warm
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A natural substance, usually shiny, that lets electricity pass through it and can be shaped into sheets or wires
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A man-made radioactive element with atomic number 115 called moscovium
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A fictional substance said to give great power in stories and games, not the real chemical element
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A type of atom like carbon, silicon, tin, or lead found in Group 14 of the periodic table
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A radioactive metal with atomic number 104 that scientists make in labs and that does not occur in nature
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A very heavy radioactive metal made by scientists with atomic number 109
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A man-made radioactive element with atomic number 110 called darmstadtium
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A very heavy radioactive metal made in labs that has very unstable atoms
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A radioactive element made in a lab named nihonium with the number 113 that lasts only a short time
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A radioactive, unstable metal that scientists make with atomic number 114 called flerovium
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A heavy element with number 116 made by people that is radioactive and called livermorium
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A small electronic part that makes a simple choice, like an AND or OR gate
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A set of elements like carbon and silicon that behave alike in chemistry
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An element that leaves other elements unchanged when used with an operation, like 0 for addition or 1 for multiplication
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A metal such as cobalt or nickel that has properties similar to other metals in the same group
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A device that detects heat, light, pressure, or movement and produces a signal
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A part of a circuit that gives an output only when the input reaches a set level
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A chemical element that has a higher atomic number than uranium and is radioactive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Element comes from Latin elementum and was used long ago for the four natural things, 'earth', 'air', 'fire', and 'water', so poets and philosophers used element to mean those basic natural forces.