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What (who) is Primary - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Primary (disambiguation); Primay
Primary
·noun A primary meeting; a caucus.
II. Primary ·adj Earliest formed; fundamental.
III. Primary ·noun That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
IV. Primary ·adj First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
VI. Primary ·adj First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
VII. Primary ·adj First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
VIII. Primary ·noun One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. ·see Plumage, and ·Illust. of Bird.
IX. Primary ·adj Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
primary
¦ adjective
1. of chief importance; principal.
2. earliest in time or order.
(Primary) Geology former term for Palaeozoic.
3. not caused by or based on anything else.
4. chiefly Brit. relating to or denoting education for children between the ages of about five and eleven.
5. of or denoting the input side of a transformer or other inductive device.
6. Chemistry (of an organic compound) having its functional group on a carbon atom bonded to no more than one other carbon atom.
derived from ammonia by replacement of one hydrogen atom by an organic group.
¦ noun (plural primaries)
1. (in the US) a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election.
2. Astronomy the body orbited by a smaller body.
Origin
ME: from L. primarius, from primus 'first'.
primary
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Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You use primary to describe something that is very important. (FORMAL)
That's the primary reason the company's share price has held up so well...
His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems...
= main
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880...
...primary teachers.
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
Primary is used to describe something that occurs first.
It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body...
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
A primary or a primary election is an election in an American state in which people vote for someone to become a candidate for a political office. Compare general election
.
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...the 1968 New Hampshire primary...
N-COUNT
Examples of use of Primary
1. Out went primary care groups, in came primary care trusts.
2. The Democratic primary survey interviewed 1,'56 voters, the Republican primary poll 1,521.
3. Overall, many more voters cast ballots in the Democratic primary than in the Republican primary.
4. By Israel Harel Tags: israel, primary, Kadima Next week Kadima will hold its primary election.
5. Instead of going through the primary, I‘m going to endorse the winner of that primary.