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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"
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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"Primary" Quotes from Famous Books



... persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the UNION as a primary object of Patriotic desire. Is there a doubt, whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope, that a proper ...
— Washington's Birthday • Various
... two other chief matters to which it was now necessary that the Firm should attend; the first and primary being the stock of advertisements which should be issued; and the other, or secondary, being the stock of goods which should be obtained to answer the ...
— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope
... such matters, is clearly the primary law. If a country cannot exist without a large standing army, and the men are not to be had by voluntary enlistments, a draft is probably the wisest and best regulation for its security. But, taking this principle ...
— Recollections of Europe • J. Fenimore Cooper
... Provinces at any other price than the uncontrolled exercise, within their borders, of the Catholic religion. He wished, therefore, as obedient son of the Church and Defender of the Faith, to fulfil this primary duty, untrammelled by any human consideration, by any profit that might induce him towards a contrary course. That which he had on other occasions more than once signified he now confirmed. His mind was fixed; this was his last and immutable determination, ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... the latter word is used in the clause, 'neither be partaker of other men's sins.' Had the verb in our text been used, it might have been rendered, 'neither be the part-taker of other men's sins.') The primary sense of [Greek: antilambano] is to take in return—to take instead of, &c. Hence, in the middle with the genitive, it signifies assist, or do one's part towards the person or thing expressed by that genitive. In this sense only is the word ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society


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