primary
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English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈpraɪməri/, SAMPA: /"praIm@ri/
- (US) enPR: prīʹmĕr-ē, IPA: /ˈpraɪmɛri/, SAMPA: /"praImEri/ or enPR: prīʹmə-rē, IPA: /ˈpraɪməri/, SAMPA: /"praIm@ri/
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Etymology
From Latin primarius (“of the first, of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent”) < primus (“first”); see prime. Compare French: primaire and primer and premier.
Adjective
primary (comparative more primary, superlative most primary)
- The first in a group or series.
- Children attend primary school, teenagers attend secondary school.
- That which is placed ahead of others.
- Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
Derived terms
- primarily
- primary care
- primary color, primary colour
- primary producer
- primary research
- primary school
- primary source
See also
- first
- primus inter pares
- secondary (2)
- tertiary (3)
- quaternary (4)
Noun
primary (plural primaries)
- A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- The first year of grade school.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
- A primary school.
- 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
- Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
- 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- A primary colour.
- 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
- By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.
- 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
Translations
a preliminary election to select a political candidate
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Verb
to primary (third-person singular simple present primaries, present participle primarying, simple past and past participle primaried)
- (US) To take part in a primary election
External links
- primary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- primary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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for 77th Assembly District Wisconsin State Journal ... Side being vacated after 26 years by Spencer Black, who said he is not inclined to endorse in the primary , but has not yet ruled out the possibility. ...
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Kessingland Primary School For the first time but hopefully not the last a primary school took part in Beachwatch 2004 Almost 100 children from Years 7 and 8 at Kessingland
