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Primary   /prˈaɪmˌɛri/   Listen
Primary

adjective
1.
Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary.  "A primary effect" , "Primary sources" , "A primary interest"  Antonym: secondary.
2.
Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic.
3.
Most important element.  Synonyms: chief, main, master, principal.  "The main doors were of solid glass" , "The principal rivers of America" , "The principal example" , "Policemen were primary targets" , "The master bedroom" , "A master switch"
4.
Of or being the essential or basic part.  Synonyms: elemental, elementary.
5.
Of primary importance.  Synonym: basal.
noun
(pl. primaries)
1.
A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen.  Synonym: primary election.
2.
One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.  Synonyms: primary feather, primary quill.
3.
(astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it.
4.
Coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit.  Synonyms: primary coil, primary winding.



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... however, wasn't particularly impressed by such show; she saw that Judith and Pansy had expected that of her; but she was determined not to exhibit a surprise that would imply any changes in her mother's and her condition. In addition, Linda calmly took such surroundings for granted. Her primary conception of possible existence was elegance; its necessity had so entered into her being that it ...
— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer
... have to be classified, after an encyclopaedic fashion, in graduated courses, adapted to the degree of general culture which a man may be expected to have in the circumstances in which he is placed; beginning with a course limited to the necessary requirements of primary education, and extending upwards to the subjects treated of in all the branches of philosophical thought. The regulation of the second kind of knowledge would be left to those who had shown genuine mastery in the several departments into which it is divided; and the whole system would provide ...
— The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism • Arthur Schopenhauer
... to clear some twenty acres or so, as a primary clearing, wherein our shanty might be built, and a little grass provided to keep the milch-cows near home. We had two or three weeks chopping, then, in the height of the dry season, managed a successful burn of the fallen stuff, letting the fire run among the standing bush where it would, ...
— Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) - or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand • William Delisle Hay
... reciprocating or alternate motion of the piston from end to end of the cylinder; but the motion which is necessary to be produced for the purposes to which the engine is applied, is rarely or never of this nature. This primary motion, therefore, is almost always modified by some machinery interposed between the piston and the object to be moved. The motion most generally required is one of rotation, and this is accomplished by connecting the extremity of the piston-rod with a contrivance constructed on the revolving ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19. No. 575 - 10 Nov 1832 • Various
... strong in defense, but the Jefferson team could not be denied. From the thirty-five-yard line the purple started a play which brought gloom to the Ridgley stands. Norris ran with the ball round right end, somehow succeeded in evading the Ridgley primary defense, dodged both Durant and Teeny-bits and before the horrified eyes of the members of Ridgley School dashed madly down the field, over the goal line and round until he had placed the ball squarely behind the goal posts. On the black scoreboard a white figure 6 appeared after the name ...
— The Mark of the Knife • Clayton H. Ernst


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