PRIMARY
\pɹˈa͡ɪməɹi], \pɹˈaɪməɹi], \p_ɹ_ˈaɪ_m_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of PRIMARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"
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of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing"
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one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
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of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest"
By Princeton University
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most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"
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of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing"
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one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
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of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
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First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
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First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
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Earliest formed; fundamental.
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Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
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That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
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A primary meeting; a caucus.
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One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.
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A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.
By Oddity Software
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In the first order of time, place, or rank; original; chief; principal; first in order of development; hence, lowest; as, a primary school; preparatory.
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That which is first in rank, place, or importance; a meeting of voters to name candidates, etc., to be voted for in a coming election; one of the large flight-feathers in a bird's wing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Original; first in order of time, development, interdependence, importance, etc.; central or median.
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Of organic compounds in chemistry, having a substituted radicle in a hydrocarbon attached to a carbon atom which itself is connected with only one other (carbon atom). The term is also applied to amins and amids, phosphins, stibines, and arsins, in which but one atom of the hydrogen in ammonia, phosphoreted hydrogen, etc., is replaced by a radicle.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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