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primary

adj
/ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹi/UK/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/CA/ˈpɹɑe.m(ə.)ɹiː/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.

  1. borrowed from prīmārius

Definitions

  1. First or earliest in a group or series.

    • Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
    • the church of Christ, in its primary institution
    • , Book II, Chapter VIII These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.

  2. Main

    Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.

    • Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.

  3. Earliest formed

    Earliest formed; fundamental.

  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first…

      Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

    2. Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.

    3. Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general…

      Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.

    4. A primary election

      A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.

      • In recent primaries, for example, nearly 4% of absentees were rejected in Philadelphia; 8% in Kentucky; and 20% in parts of New York City.

    5. The first year of grade school.

    6. A base or fundamental component

      A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

    7. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in…

      The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.

    8. A primary school.

      • Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

    9. Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.

      • `Good Lord, look at that swiftlet, it's got two primaries missing from its left wing!'

    10. A primary colour.

      • By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.

    11. The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help…

      The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.

    12. A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of…

      A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.

    13. The primary site of a disease

      The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.

      • unknown primary
      • most common primaries

    14. A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is…

      A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.

    15. To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to…

      To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.

      • In the New England town where he ran a “couple of night clubs” . he was “primarying the mayor."
      • What political facts of life underpin the hopes and dreams of democratic politicians who would take on the awesome task of “primarying” a two-term incumbent governor
      • Each of the past few election cycles has featured at least one instance of “primarying,” a challenge to an incumbent on the grounds that he or she is not sufficiently partisan.

    16. To take part in a primary election.

      • Both were worried that Bailey would break some of their delegate commitments to keep them from primarying.
      • “That’s the fun part - finding out who’s the unknown person who may want to primary to get one of the positions,” Kolenberg said.

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Derived

circumprimary, coprimary, megaprimary, nonprimary, postprimary, preprimary, pre-primary, primarily, primariness, primary accent, primary alcohol, primary amine, primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, primary bedroom, primary care, primary cell wall, primary cilium, primary color, primary colour, primary data, primary education, primary energy, primary explosive, primary fire, primary forest, primary goods, primary healthcare, primary hypothermia, primary ideal, primary immunodeficiency, primary industry, primary key, primary legislation, primary life support system, primary market, primary memory, primary metabolite, primary myelofibrosis, primary offense, primary phosphine · +38 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for primary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA