Elementary
Elementary adjective - Of or relating to the simplest facts or theories of a subject.
Usage example: students who do not have even an elementary knowledge of geography
Prime and elementary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prime" instead an adjective "Elementary".
Prime
Prime adjective - Highest in rank or authority.
Elementary and prime are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Elementary" instead an adjective "Prime".
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- On an episode of Elementary, the prime suspect in the murder case is one of these, but then it turns out she's been in a coma after a suicide attempt.
Source: Rich Bitch - He memorably said that "in any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law." The prime offender was the C language, and if people had listened, they would have stopped using it.
Source: Cassandra Truth / Real Life -
Disproportionate Retribution: The new prime minister was bullied by the heads of the defense forces back in grade school... so he undermines the Defense Corps with a male trio of elementary school children who manage to get to the scene of every alien sighting first.
Source: Anime / Mao-chan
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