primitive - use in sentences
Converse of object
- draw: Postscript is a Turing-complete reverse polish programming language with drawing primitives based on Bezier curves.
- add: We're in the process of adding some vector primitives to address the needs of CAD users, as well.
Adjective modifier
- geometric: Abstract The extraction of geometric primitives from images is a fundamental task in computer vision.
- graphic: These store the image as a set of graphic primitives; shapes such as lines, ellipses, rectangles and polygons.
- basic: The basic primitives, the locator functions and the graph ADT definition itself do allow for any number of linked nodes.
- simple: TRY is one pass through the main loop, being defined in terms of simpler primitives to perform the required task.
Modifies a noun
- Methodist: The Primitive Methodists reached out to the poorest people, who had been written off by the rest of society.
- Methodism: In Herefordshire, at the time of the census, Primitive Methodism was by far the most popular form of all the dissenting religions.
- accumulation: Nor is the " primitive accumulation of capital " in Russia without parallel in recent years in the West itself.
- streak: It draws attention to the development of the primitive streak.
- communism: Primitive communism is negated by the exploitation of man by man.
- reflex: These primitive reflexes should slowly be inhibited during the first year of life.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: In particular they decide that the rather primitive standard fuel injection system was holding the car back.
- relatively: As a relatively primitive system in comparison with modern personal computers and with the Internet, its limitations have become all too apparent.
- fairly: The graphical interface, which appears in any case to be fairly primitive, doesn't actually seem to work on current Windows systems.
- somewhat: This traditional method is efficient, if somewhat primitive.
- extremely: What's available now via WAP phones is extremely primitive, much of it more interesting for its novelty value than its real use.
- very: Conditions were very primitive, there was no running water, gas or mains electric.
Noun used with modifier
- output: The output primitives are sent to the active workstation and stored in the segment.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: Some of the features seem primitive, while others seem advanced, so an eighth or ninth century date might be appropriate.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
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