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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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... whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature; chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... the wilderness than John D. Haseman, who spent from 1907 to 1910 in painstaking and thorough scientific investigation over a large extent of South American territory hitherto only partially known or quite unexplored. Haseman's primary object was to study the characteristics and distribution of South American fishes, but as a matter of fact he studied at first hand many other more or less kindred subjects, as may be seen in his remarks on the Indians ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt
... two forms of salute are taught. The first, for primary children, is: "We give our heads and our hearts to God and our country; one country, one land, one flag." The second, for all other pupils, is: "I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the Republic for which ...
— The Etiquette of To-day • Edith B. Ordway
... country where the currency value is sinking in terms of other currencies the manufacturer is getting his labour cheaper, seeing that wages are slow to follow increase in cost of living. Both pleas alike evade the primary truth that if country A trades with country B at all, it must receive some goods in payment for its exports, save in a case in which, for a temporary purpose, it may elect to import gold. But that fact is vital and must be ...
— Essays in Liberalism - Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the - Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 • Various
... afar off, affirming the primary meaning of that parable to be plainly set forth in the context, while the secondary meaning pointeth out the folly of sowing seed anywhere save on good ground—which seemed to be only about one quarter of the ...
— The Hills of Hingham • Dallas Lore Sharp


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