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- Webster's Primary Dictionary 1892
- Webster's Primary Dictionary 1892
- Webster's Primary Dictionary 1892 Value
- Collins Primary Dictionary
• PRIMARY(noun)
Primary means basically 'first.' When you vote in a primary, that is the first election in a series. When a matter is of primary concern, it means it's of first importance. 60 synonyms of primary from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 75 related words, definitions, and antonyms. Find another word for primary. Primary: coming before all others in importance. Primary I-Dictionary Animated stories, songs, worksheets and flashcards, plus over three hundred illustrated words needed for the Young Learners English (YLE) Starters test. At last - an inn.
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Meaning:
A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
primary; primary election
Hypernyms ('primary' is a kind of...):
election (a vote to select the winner of a position or political office)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of 'primary'):
direct primary (a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office)
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Meaning:
One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
primary; primary feather; primary quill
Hypernyms ('primary' is a kind of...):
flight feather; pinion; quill; quill feather (any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird)
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Meaning:
(astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ('primary' is a kind of...):
celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)
Domain category:
astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)
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Meaning:
Coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
primary; primary coil; primary winding
Context example:
current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil
Hypernyms ('primary' is a kind of...):
coil (reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit)
Holonyms ('primary' is a part of...):
transformer (an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage)
• PRIMARY(adjective)
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Meaning:
Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
Context example:
a primary interest
Similar:
particular; special (first and most important)
original ((of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary)
capital (of primary importance)
direct (being an immediate result or consequence)
firsthand (received directly from a source)
first-string (being a regular member of a team)
Also:
essential (basic and fundamental)
original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)
first (preceding all others in time or space or degree)
Webster's Primary Dictionary 1892
Antonym:
secondary (being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate)
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Meaning:
Webster's Primary Dictionary 1892
Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
Context example:
a primary instinct
Similar:
underived (not derived; primary or simple)
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Meaning:
Webster's Primary Dictionary 1892 Value
Most important element
Synonyms:
chief; main; master; primary; principal
Context example:
a master switch
Similar:
important; of import (of great significance or value)
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Collins Primary Dictionary
Meaning:
Of or being the essential or basic part
Synonyms:
basal; elemental; elementary; primary
Context example:
a basal reader
Similar:
basic (pertaining to or constituting a base or basis)
PRIMARY. That which is first or principal; as primary evidence, or that evidence which is to be admitted in the first instance, as distinguished from secondary evidence, which is allowed only when primary evidence cannot be had.
2. A primary obligation is one which is the principal object of the contract; for example, the primary obligation of the seller is to deliver the thing sold, and to transfer the title to it. It is distinguished from the accessory or secondary obligation to pay damages for not doing so. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 702.
