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Definition: Primary |
PrimaryAdjective1. Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest". 2. Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct". 3. 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". 4. Of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing". 5. Of primary importance; "basic truths". Noun1. A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen. 2. One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing. 3. Coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit; "current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "primary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. Short for primary body.2. Short for primary cosmic ray. (references) |
Geography | The attracting body which primarily determines the motion of a satellite. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Descriptive of fluid at low pressure applied to the inlet port of the pressure intensifier, and of anything concerned with the fluid: flow, pressure, circuit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Characteristic of or existing in a rock at the time of its formation; pertains to minerals, textures, etc.; original. Ant: secondary. b. Said of a mineral deposit unaffected by supergene enrichment c. Said of a metal obtained from ore rather than from scrap.Syn:virgin. (references) |
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Primary is a 1960 cinema verite documentary film. It covers the 1960 primary election between John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey for the United States Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States.It was directed by Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles Terrence McCartney Filgate and D.A. Pennebaker. Primary, along with Chronicle of a Summer, was largely responsible for the start of the cinema verite movement in documentary filmmaking. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. See also: U.S. presidential election, 1960
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Primary or elementary education describes the first years of formal, structured education that occur during childhood. In most Western countries, it is compulsory for children to receive primary education (though in many jurisdictions it is permissible for parents to provide it).
Primary education generally begins when children are four to seven years of age. The division between primary and secondary education is somewhat arbitrary, but it generally occurs at about twelve years of age (adolescence); some educational systems have separate middle schools for that period. Primary and secondary education together are sometimes referred to as K-12 (kindergarten through twelfth grade), especially in Canada and the United States.
Typically, primary education is provided in schools, where (in the absence of parental movement or other intervening factors) the child will stay, in steadily advancing classes, until they complete it and move on to secondary schooling. Children are usually placed in classes with one teacher who will be primarily responsible for their education and welfare for that year. This teacher may be assisted to varying degrees by specialist teachers in certain subject areas, often music or physical education. The continuity with a single teacher and the opportunity to build up a close relationship with the class is a notable feature of the primary education system. Over the past few decades, schools have been testing various arrangements which break from the one-teacher, one-class mold.
The major goals of primary education are achieving basic literacy and numeracy amongst all their students, as well as establishing foundations in science, geography, history and other social sciences. The relative priority of various areas, and the methods used to teach them, are an area of considerable political debate.
Traditionally, various forms of corporal punishment have been an integral part of early education. Recently this practice has come under attack, and in some cases been outlawed, in Western countries at least.
Elementary school
The elementary school consists of the first seven years of school, that is, grades 1 through 5 or 6, as well as kindergarten, a preliminary year of school before grade 1. Originally, however, it was studied after primary school in the 19th century. Also known as grammar school in the United States it is a major segment of compulsory education. Until the latter third of the 20th century, however, grammar school (or elementary school) was grades 1 through 8. After grammar school, one usually attends high school. (In many districts, grades 5-8 or 5-9 were called "middle school", or further separated into "intermediate school" and "junior high school".)
See also
- Kindergarten -- Primary education -- Secondary education -- Tertiary education -- Quaternary education
- Education by country
- List of colleges and universities by country
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A primary election is one in which a political party selects a candidate for a later election by all registered voters in that jurisdiction. Primaries are sometimes open only to registered members of that party, and sometimes open to all voters. In open primaries, voters must typically choose only one primary to participate in that election cycle.In elections using voting systems where strategic nomination is a concern, primaries can be very important in preventing "clone" candidates that detract from each other's vote because of their similarities.
In the United States, the small state of New Hampshire draws world attention every four years because it has the first presidential primary.
Other ways that parties may select their candidates include caucuses and conventionss.
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A primary mirror is also a form of distributed data management on the Internet.
A primary mirror is the principal light-gathering surface of a reflective telescope.
For most of astronomy's history, primary mirrors used to be monolithic blocks of glass or other material, curved to exact shapes and coated with a reflective layer. This worked well, but as telescope diameters began to increase, the primary mirror became also the primary limitation on the telescope size: the mirror had to sustain its own weight and not deform under gravity. The limit was soon reached with the 5-meter Mount Palomar observatory and a 6-meter in the USSR. For decades, telescope sizes did not increase significantly.
Then, some new technologies were introduced: starting with the MMT, primary mirrors were constructed from small segments, merged (by physical contact or later by optics) into one large primary mirror. While the MMT was a 4.5-meter, the Keck telescopes used a 10-meter segmented mirror, and many others are in development.
Secondly, a thin mirror technology was used together with active optics: a very thin mirror (in the order of centimeters) is suspended by actuators in its optimal shape, against the force of gravity. This allows large non-segmented mirrors. This technique is used on the VLT and LBT, and in many other operating or planned telescopes.
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Primary Storage is a category of Computer storage, often called "Main memory". It is used to store data that is likely to be in active use, and so is usually relatively fast. Contrast with Secondary storage.
Storage devices in this category include:
- Random Access Memory (RAM) - includes VRAM, WRAM, NVRAM
- Read only Memory (ROM)
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The classical meaning of standard was a flag or banner; especially, a national or other ensign carried into battle; thus "standard bearer" indicates the one who bears, or carries, the standard. The modern primary meaning evolved through symbolism: "a quality or measure which is established by authority, custom, or general consent". In the phrase "light standard" it retains the older meaning of a vertical support.In technical use, a standard is a concrete example of an item or a specification against which all others may be measured. For example, there are "primary standards" for length, mass, and other units of measure, kept by laboratories and standards organizations. Officially certified measuring instruments must be checked for accuracy using such standards (or secondary standards made from the primary).
In analytical chemistry a standard is a preparation containing a known concentration of a specified substance. A simple standard may be a dilute solution of the substance; this serves as a reference to calibrate equipment used to measure a sample's composition in terms of elements. For accuracy, the standard concentration may be specially designed to be as close to real samples as possible.
There are also certified reference materials available which contain independently verified concentrations of elements available in different matrices (a matrix is bulk material of the sample, for example blood).
See also
- Standardization
- Open standard or its antonym, Proprietary (e.g. Proprietary software)
- International standard
- International Standard (Ballroom dancing)
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The U.S. presidential primaries are but one step in the process of electing a President of the United States. The primary elections evolved out of the necessity for U.S. political parties to nominate and unite behind one candidate for the Presidency.
Primary elections
The long process of choosing the President of the United States begins with a series of individual state primary elections, in which voters in particular parties express their preference among a series of candidates. While typically voting for a particular candidate, voters actually choose a slate of delegates for each party to represent that state at the party's political convention. The delegates gather at each party's nominating convention held several months prior to the general election. There, the delegates formally submit their votes for the nominees, and the person with the most votes becomes the party's Presidential candidate for the general election.
The primary elections begin as earlier as January of the election year and take place through the spring, culminating in the the mid-summer nationalconvention of each political party. Campaigning for the primaries often begins 6-12 months before the first primary, almost two years before the general election. Incumbent presidents seeking re-election have nearly always won their party's nomination (Franklin Pierce, Grover Cleveland, and arguably Lyndon Johnson are exceptions).
The best-known of the American presidential primaries is the one in New Hampshire, because it is the first in each quadrennial cycle. Although established in 1914, this primary drew little attention until 1952, when a change in proceedings allowed more candidates to be listed on the ballot. That created a contest that drew notice from then-new television coverage, and its importance was cemented when Jimmy Carter took a surprise win in 1976 and rode it to the presidency.
In the late 1970s, the New Hampshire Legislature passed laws designed to guarantee that their primary would always come first — a status it has successfully defended from other states who envy the attention. The main competition comes from Iowa, which holds a less-binding caucus vote a week or two before the New Hampshire primary. In recent years, many observers have noted a trend towards "front-loading" state primaries--moving their dates forward as much as possible, so that more primaries are bunched together earlier in the campaign season. In the 2004 Democratic primary, for instance, many people expect to know the nominee by the middle of March; in the past, the nominee was often not known until June, when the last of the primaries were held, or even until the convention. A number of states do not have primaries, citing the costs of the election and the irrelevance of primaries late in the nominating cycle.
Both major parties have toyed with attempts to streamline and shorten the primary season but so far without success. Some people claim that the current primary system is unfair, because it places undue emphasis on New Hampshire and Iowa, which they claim are not representative of the nation as a whole. Some reformers have even called for a single nationwide primary to be held on one day; however, there is little change expected.
List of primaries
- U.S. presidential primaries, 2000
- U.S. Democratic Party Presidential Primary, 2004
- U.S. Republican Party Presidential Primary, 2004
Related articles
- U.S. presidential election
- U.S. political convention
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PR | English | Primary rate | Computing |
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Synonyms: PrimarySynonyms: basal (adj), basic (adj), chief(a) (adj), elementary (adj), main(a) (adj), primary(a) (adj), principal(a) (adj), primary coil (n), primary election (n), primary feather (n), primary quill (n), primary winding (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: secondary (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cause | Adjective: caused; v; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial; aboriginal; protogenal; radical; embryonic, embryotic; in embryo, in ovo; seminal, germinal; at the bottom of; connate, having a common origin. |
Council | Assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire, powwow, primary. |
Importance | Paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of vital; importance. |
Record | Gazette, gazetteer; newspaper, daily, magazine; almanac, almanack; calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger; cashbook, petty cashbook; professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article. |
School | Day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory. |
Teaching | Elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics, moral tuition. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Primary |
| English words defined with "primary": closed primary ♦ direct primary ♦ open primary ♦ primary coil, primary winding ♦ Spurious primary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "primary": cancer of unknown primary origin ♦ net primary production ♦ primary administration, primary anomaly, primary box, primary breaking, primary cache, primary circle, Primary Colours, primary dealer, primary education female pupils, primary education pupils, primary endpoint, primary explosions, primary key, primary management domain, primary metropolitan statistical area, Primary Nursing Care, primary ports, PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY, Primary Rate Interface, primary ray, primary school enrollment, primary school enrollment,female, primary school enrollment,male, primary settling, primary standard. (references) |
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Screenplays | In two minutes primary charges will blow base charges and a few square blocks will be reduced to smoldering rubble (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) One's primary purpose at university level is to learn how to think (Higher Learning; writing credit: John Singleton) The triangles are their primary targets; the squares are their secondary targets (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Primary (1960) | |
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 | This is a schematic drawing of sites of potential metastases. Shown are the primary tumor and metastases to the brain, lung, liver and lymph nodes. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | The metastatic colony is the end result of a complicated multistep process. The tumor cells from a primary tumor invade local tissue and gain access to the venous circulation (intravasation). Circulating tumor cells, singly or in clumps, are transported to target organs where they lodge in the capillary bed. Thus arrested, these tumor cells penetrate the endothelial cell lining and the underlining basement membrane to exit the circulation (extravasation). They then grow as a metastatic colony, a development that requires new blood vessels (neovascularization). To complete this multistep process, the tumor cells must overcome the host's defenses. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Classification of mycoses by primary site of pathology. Credit: CDC. |  | This chancre is located on the posterior vaginal fourchette (where labia minora meet). The primary stage of syphilis is often marked by the appearance of a single sore – called a chancre, which is usually firm, round, small, and painless. Credit: CDC. |
 | "A precarious position" - using trucks on a primary triangulation party Triangulation party of E. W. Eickelberg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | "A tight squeeze" - using trucks on a primary triangulation party Triangulation party of E. W. Eickelberg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Primary dunes. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Pay phones on the docks were the primary means of saying goodbye or hello to family and friends with vessels coming and going. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Clark Point, New Bedford. Prior to restoration, the primary wastewater plant is now gone and a park was developed at the site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Primary dunes. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| "Bas-relief" by Lorena Molinari Commentary: "Just a deja-vu of my books at primary school... hope can be useful..." |
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Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2021 | The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The French State shall always have the right of establishing and maintaining, as incidental to the mines, primary or technical schools for its employees and their children, and of causing instruction therein to be given in the French language, in accordance with such curriculum and by such teachers as it may select. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | On reargument, the consideration of appropriate relief was necessarily subordinated to the primary question - the constitutionality of segregation in public education. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Knowledge is a viaticum, thought is of primary necessity, truth is nourishment as well as wheat |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | CNS lymphoma can be primary or secondary. (references) | |
A family history of primary immunodeficiency. (references) | ||
Drugs are the primary way that IPF is treated. (references) | ||
Business | Fuel oil and gas are the primary energy sources in Singapore. (references) | |
Schools and universities are the primary market for soccer balls. (references) | ||
Price is the primary determining factor for winning these tenders. (references) | ||
Children | Yugoslavia | Due to this lack of primary schooling, many Romani children do not learn to speak Serbian, and there is no instruction available in the Romani language. (references) |
Malaysia | The package of booklets, videos and discussion topics are designed for use in primary schools. (references) | |
Malaysia | Forty schools have asked to use the materials, and the NGO hopes the Ministry of Education will to introduce the package into the curriculum of all primary schools. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Thailand | Students at the primary level are required to take 80 hours of instruction per academic year in religious studies classes. (references) |
Angola | MINARS has primary responsibility for IDP's and implemented housing and resettlement programs; however, these efforts remained inadequate. (references) | |
Moldova | In February 2000, Parliament passed a decree making "moral and spiritual" instruction mandatory for primary school students and optional for secondary and university students. (references) | |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | American companies have traditionally been the primary suppliers of instrumentation and process controls to the Saudi market, and are expected to sustain their lead for the foreseeable future. (references) |
Pakistan | Imports of plastic materials and resins in both primary and non-primary forms have grown by more than 10 percent annually during the last several years. (references) | |
Pakistan | The GOP has allocated $4.69 million for environmental sector in Federal Budget 2000-01. Good prospects exist for supply of pollution control and recycling equipment for: (i) leather tanneries: primary treatment plants for individual units as well as combined secondary effluent treatment plants for clusters of units; (ii) textile mills: primary and combined treatment plants for wastewater; (iii) chemical industry: water pollution from pesticides and insecticides; (iv) fertilizer industry: water pollution. (references) | |
Human Rights | Oman | The decrees formally established the judiciary as an independent, hierarchical system composed of a Supreme Court, an appeals court, primary courts (one located in each region), and, within the primary courts, divisional courts. (references) |
Tanzania | Advocates defend clients in all courts, except in primary courts. (references) | |
Tanzania | In December 2000, four persons reportedly were arrested for a gasoline bombing of a primary school that housed a polling station. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Taiwan | As part of its efforts to preserve ethnic identities, the Ministry of Education includes some Aborigine-language classes in primary schools. (references) |
Minorities | Romania | A government decree permits students in state-funded primary and secondary schools to be taught in their own language, with the exception of secondary school courses on the history and geography of Romania. (references) |
Ethiopia | For example, in Oromiya in 1999, the regional government required that all primary schools adopt Oromiffa as the language of instruction. (references) | |
Political Economy | GHANA | To arrest inflation and the fast depreciating cedi, the Bank of Ghana (BOG), the central bank, pursued a tight monetary policy, increasing the primary reserve ratio from eight to nine percent. (references) |
Brazil | Exports consist of both manufactured and primary goods. (references) | |
Madagascar | The gendarmerie has primary responsibility for security except in major cities and is assisted in some areas by regular army units in operations against bandit gangs and cattle thieves. (references) | |
Political Rights | Togo | Administratively, the prefect, nominated by the Interior Minister, is the primary representative of the central government in each of the 30 prefecture. (references) |
Comoros | For the presidential election scheduled for March 10, 2002, primary elections will be held only on Grand Comore, since the first president under the new Constitution must be a Grand Comorian. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | President Karimov and the executive branch maintain control through sweeping decree powers, primary authority for drafting legislation, and control of all government appointments, most aspects of the economy, and the security forces. (references) | |
Trade | Croatia | The Croatian National Bank (CNB) is the Croatian monetary authority with the primary task of maintaining price stability. (references) |
China | MOFTEC administers the licensing system, but has given primary authority for approval and import of some agricultural items to the General Administration of the PRC for Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine (AQSIQ). (references) | |
Yemen | The Yemeni government also streamlined customs procedures somewhat, but businessmen still consider them to be the primary trade barrier in Yemen. (references) | |
Travel | Korea | Incheon International Airport opened on March 29, 2001, replacing Seoul's Kimpo airport as the primary gateway for international travel to and from the Republic of Korea. (references) |
Mexico | The Mexican government requires all bilingual schools to provide some Spanish language instruction at the primary level, beginning with first grade. (references) | |
Israel | Extensive freight services are available and most often used between Haifa, the port in the north, and Ashdod, Israel's primary port in the south, near the Beer Sheva region. (references) | |
Women | Mozambique | Women are the primary cultivators of family land in the country. (references) |
Papua New Guinea | Adult literacy has risen to 73 percent; 65 percent of women are literate, compared with 86 percent of men; however, there are 15 percent fewer girls in primary schools than boys. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Women generally continued to have primary responsibility for child rearing and housekeeping, even if they are employed outside the home. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ghana | Of those, 70 percent have no education while 21 percent only have a primary education. (references) |
Burma | Thailand is believed to be the primary destination for trafficked Burmese citizens; other destinations include China, India, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and countries in the Middle East. (references) | |
Pakistan | Its three principal goals are: To eradicate immediately the worst forms of child labor, to progressively eliminate all remaining forms of child labor, and to ensure at least a primary education and vocational training for the targeted children. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ann Richards | Well, Gephardt, interestingly enough is going to look like he's doing pretty well because Iowa is that early primary. |
Rush Limbaugh | I can't wait for the Democratic primary and the cannibalization accompanying it to begin. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Europe has a set of primary interests which to use have none or a very remote relation. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The Council is about to resume its primary assignment of drawing up treaties of peace with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For the primary and secondary school years we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | But we shall look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for its defense. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Now let me turn to a task which is the primary responsibility of National Government--the safety and security of our people. |
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| "Primary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.15% of the time. "Primary" is used about 6,716 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.15% | 6,457 | 1,499 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.81% | 256 | 18,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,716 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Primary Health Care Limited | United Kingdom | Primary Health Properties Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "primary": arm primary axes ♦ cancer of unknown primary origin ♦ closed primary ♦ Coronary Primary Prevention Trial ♦ Direct primary ♦ multiple primary root ♦ of primary importance ♦ open primary ♦ pavement primary response ♦ presidential primary ♦ primary accent ♦ primary account number extended ♦ primary activity ♦ primary administration ♦ primary air ♦ primary alcohol ♦ primary amenorrhea ♦ primary amentia ♦ primary amine ♦ primary amputation ♦ primary arm ♦ primary armament ♦ Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space ♦ primary atypical pneumonia ♦ primary axis ♦ primary battery ♦ Primary Biliary Cirrhosis ♦ primary bow ♦ primary box ♦ primary cache ♦ primary cause ♦ primary cell ♦ primary cell battery ♦ primary censorship ♦ primary central nervous system lymphoma ♦ primary chill ♦ primary coil ♦ primary color ♦ primary colors ♦ primary colour ♦ primary commodity ♦ primary concern ♦ primary condition ♦ primary control ♦ primary coolant ♦ primary current ♦ primary dentition ♦ primary dysmenorrhea ♦ primary education ♦ primary education female pupils ♦ primary education pupils ♦ primary education teachers ♦ primary election ♦ primary endpoint ♦ primary explosions ♦ primary explosive ♦ primary explosives ♦ primary feather ♦ primary flue ♦ primary forest ♦ primary form ♦ primary frequency ♦ primary gap ♦ primary group ♦ primary guard ♦ primary health care ♦ primary HIV infection ♦ primary industry ♦ primary inspection ♦ primary instinct ♦ primary interexchange carrier ♦ primary key ♦ primary legislation ♦ primary liability ♦ primary literature ♦ primary lymphoid organ ♦ primary management domain ♦ primary means of communications ♦ primary medical care ♦ primary meeting ♦ primary metal ♦ primary mission ♦ Primary Nursing Care ♦ primary offering ♦ primary openings ♦ primary pinna ♦ primary planet ♦ primary planets ♦ primary ports ♦ primary prevention ♦ primary product ♦ primary production ♦ primary products ♦ primary qualities of bodies ♦ primary quill ♦ primary quills ♦ primary radar ♦ primary radiator ♦ primary rainbow ♦ primary Rate Interface ♦ primary ray. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "primary": primary-activity, primary-care, primary-colour, primary-coloured, primary-emission, primary-producing, primary-quality, primary-school, primary-season, primary-secondary, primary-sort, primary-textured, primary-to-secondary, primary-use. | |
Ending with "primary": post-primary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "primary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | laerskool (primary school). (various references) | |
Albanian | primar, planet kryesor, parësor (prime, principal), zgjedhje e kandidatëve, themelor (basal, basic, Cardinal, constitutive, essential, fundamental, main, primal, prime, principal, radical, seminal, ultimate, underlying), kryesor (arch, arterial, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, general, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, leading, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, prime, principal, topmost, trunk), i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i parë (aboriginal, early, first, foremost, former, front, headmost, initial, maiden, opening, original, premier, primitive, progenitor), fillor (early, elementary, opening), diçka e dorës së parë. (various references) | |
Arabic | كوكب سيار (planet), سطحي (cursory, exterior, external, facile, frothy, perfunctory, peripheral, shallow-minded, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, surface, unexperienced, unintelligent), إبتدائي (elementary, incipient, initial, rudimentary), أولي (elementary, first, fundamental, incipient, overriding, premonitory, primaeval, primal, prime, primeval, rudimentary, ultimate, virgin), أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling), رئيسي (arch, arterial, broad, cardinal, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, main, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, prime, principal, sovereign, staple), شىء أساسي أولي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | махово перо (pen feather, pinion, quill, scapular, scapulary), палеозой, палеозойска ера (palaeozoic), примитивен (barbaric, primitive, pristine, rude, uncouth, wild and woolly), първичен (aboriginal, elemental, live, living, original, prime, primordial, pristine, protogenic, rudimental), първична намотка, първична верига, планета (planet, sphere, world), първостепенен (first class, first rate, paramount, prime, ranking), галваничен (voltaic), най-важен (central, essential, foremost, leading, main, primal, prime, principal, supreme), най-съществен, нещо най-важно, нещо главно, нещо съществено, основен цвят, главен (arterial, capital, chief, decuman, general, grand, head, high, leading, magistral, main, major, master, pivotal, premier, prime, principal, stellar), първоначален (autochthonal, elementary, grade, initial, original, prime, primordial). (various references) | |
Chinese | 主要 (main, major, principal). (various references) | |
Czech | primární (prime), základní (basal, basic, Cardinal, elementary, essential, fundamental, funded, overriding, primitive, principal, radical, rudimentary, standard, staple, ultimate, underlying), elementární (basic, elementary, fundamental). (various references) | |
Danish | primaervikling (primary side, primary winding, stator), primaerside (primary side), primær, primær, udgifter til undervisningsmaterialer,underskole (spending on teaching materials), stator (primary winding, stator), haandsvingfjer (primaries, primary quill), centrallegeme. (various references) | |
Dutch | primair. (various references) | |
Esperanto | primara. (various references) | |
Faeroese | upprunaligur (original), upphavligur. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقدماتی (Elementary, First, Preliminary, Preparatory, Prolegomenon), نخستین (First, Incipient, Premier(Re), Prime), عمده (Chief, Dominant, Essential, Gross, Head, Main, Major, Material, On, Only, Predominant, Prime, Principal, Significant), اصلی (Arch, Basic, Cardinal, Elementary, Essential, Fundametal, Genuine, Germinal, Head, Immanent, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Innate, Intrinsic, Main, Net, Original, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal), ابتداءی (Elementary, Infantile, Initial, Preliminary, Primer, Rudiment, Rudimentary). (various references) | |
Finnish | primaari, primääri, staattori (primary winding, stator), esivaalit, ensisijainen, ensiasteinen, ensiökäämi (primary winding, stator), ensiö-, alkeellinen (elementary, primitive). (various references) | |
French | primaire (flash primer, primary side, primary winding, primer). (various references) | |
German | ursprünglich (aboriginal, at first, first, fundamental, in the beginning, initial, initially, natural, orginally, original, originally, primal, primarily, primordial, pristine, unspoiled, unspoilt), primär (primarily, prime). (various references) | |
Greek | στάτωρ (stator), στοιχειώδησ (element, elemental, elementary, rudimental, rudimentary), βασικόσ (basal, basic, fundamental, rudimentary, staple, underlying), πρώτοσ (first, foremost, primal, prime), πρώτος (first, foremost), πρωτεύων,πρωτεύουσα,πρωτεύον, πρωτεύων (chief, main, premier), πρωτεύοντας αστέρας, πρωτεύουσα πλευρά (primary side), πρωταρχικόσ (primordial), πρωταρχικός, πρωτοταγής, επαγωγέας (challenger, choke, coil, field magnet, inductance, inductor, primary winding, reactance coil, reactor, self-induction coil, stator), αρχικόσ (inceptive, initial, initiatory, original, originative, primal, primitive, primordial, pristine). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | shkollë fillore (primary school). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עקרי (capital, central, fundamental, leading, main, major, pivotal, preponderant, principal, staple, substantial), בחירה מוקדמת, ראשי (capital, chief, leading, main, major, paramount, principal, staple, top), ראשוני (ancient, basic, first, original, primal, prime, primitive, rudimentary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | eredeti (aboriginal, genuine, initial, native, novel, original, primaeval, primal, prime, primeval, primordial, pristine, true, unsophisticated), elemi (elemental, elementary, rudimentary), elsődleges (elemental, life-line, prime), első (chief, first, front, leader, leading, maiden, number one, premier, primal, prime, thin edge of the wedge, top). (various references) | |
Indonesian | utama (major, predominant, prime), asali (ancient, original, wellborn). (various references) | |
Italian | primario (guiding, head physician, leading, main, paramount, primal, prime), principale (boss, capital, chief, employer, foremost, grand, head, leading, main, major, manager, master, overriding, primal, prime, principal, staple, uppermost). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 第一次 (the first ..), 原 (field, fundamental, moor, original, plain, prairie, primitive, raw, tundra, wilderness), 予選 (nomination, preliminary contest), プッシュプル増幅器 (placard, plaza, plug, plug compatible, plywood, PO, practical, practice, pragmatism, Prague, Pravda, price, price leadership, pride, primal, primary care, primary health care, prime rate, prime time, priori, priority, privacy, private, private brand, private offering, private room, prize money, Puccini, pudding, push lock, push-button phone, pushing, push-pull amplifier, put), 一級 (first class, one grade), 一次 (first, first-order, linear), 初等 (elementary). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プライマリー , プライマリ , しょとう (10th lunar month, archipelago, beginning, cane sugar, early winter, elementary, group of islands, sucrose), いっきゅう (first class, muffed ball, one grade), いちじ (a character, a letter, a time, at one time, first, first-order, linear, once, one hour, one thing, short time, temporarily, twelfth part of a day), よせん (nomination, preliminary contest), げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, handle, not to be touched, original, primitive, raw, remark, serious, statement, string, word), だいいちじ (the first ..). (various references) | |
Korean | 1 차. (various references) | |
Manx | yn chied (first, initial), toshee (chief, commencing, fore, forward, front, of the beginning, precursory, pre-eminent, prefatory, preliminary, senior, terminal), kied (assent, faculty, first, furlough, leave, pass, permission, permit, sanction, senior; licence, sufferance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imarypray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | primário (prime, root). (various references) | |
Romanian | problemã principalã, primordial (absolute, essential, essentially, foremost, initial, primordial, primordially), primitiv (crude, dark, primal, primeval, primitive, primitively, rude), primar (bailiff, elementary, initial, mayor, once removed, primal, primeval, pristine, provost), originar (initial, originality), iniţial (inceptive, inchoative, incipient, initial, initially, original, originally), elementar (abecedarian, elemental, elementary, rudimental, rudimentary). (various references) | |
Russian | первичный (archetypal, native, ultimate, virgin). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prvobitan (former, original, primal, primordial), primaran, osnovni (basal, base, basic, elementary, fundamental, institutional, key, no-frills, primal, prime, primordial, underlying), osnovan (basic, founded, fundamental, grounded, rudimentary). (various references) | |
Spanish | primario (primitive). (various references) | |
Swedish | primär (primal), ursprunglig (aboriginal, coming, natural, original, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, simple). (various references) | |
Turkish | uçucu kanat tüyü (primary feather), temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, bread and butter, constitutive, corner stone, elemental, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundament, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, socle, staple, substratum, substructure, underlying, working), ilk (early, elementary, first, initial, initiative, initiatory, maiden, preliminary, premier, primal, prime, primitive, primordial, pristine, proto-, the very first), en başta gelen, birincil (prime), birinci derecede, birinci (first, premier, uppermost, winner), başlıca (Cardinal, chiefly, essential, largely, leading, main, mainly, major, mostly, primarily, prime, principally, ruling, staple), baş (arch, arch-, beginning, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, foremost, general, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, prime, principal, sconce, top), ana renk (primary color, primary colour), ana (basic, broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, fundamental, governing, grand, guiding, head, key, leading, main, main part, major, master, matron, mother, parent, predominant, principal, principle, staple). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ilkinjilik, ilkinji (initial). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | те, що має першорядне значення, головний (arch-, basal, basic, broad, capital, captain, cephalic, chief, governing, grand, head, leading, master, overriding, premier, primal, prime, principal, staple, star), основний колір, основний (basal, base, basic, basilar, capital, central, chief, first, foremost, fundamental, key, main, master, organic, primitive, principal, quintessence, radical, staple, substantial, ultimate, underlying), найпростіший (elementary, open and shut), простий (artless, austere, babyish, bald, bare, childlike, mere, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, run of the mill, shirt-sleeve, simple, stateless, straightforward, unaffected, unartful, unceremonious, unsophisticated), початковий (a.b.c., arch-, archetypal, basic, elemental, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, infant, initial, initiative, initiatory, institutional, opening, original, originary, prime, primordial, protoplastic), перший (arch-, first, one, opening, original, premier, prime, primus, virgin), первинний (prime), палеозойська ера. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sơ cấp chủ yếu, nguyên thuỷ (aboriginal, primerval, primitive), nguyên (brut, crude, former), chính (capitally, cardinal, keynote, leading, main, mainly, primarily, principal, principally, staple), căn bản sơ đẳng, điều chủ yếu, điều đầu tiên điều chính, đầu tiên gốc, đầu (extremity, offal, premier, tab, tip). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | primarius. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | primalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "primary": postprimary, preprimary. (additional references) | |
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"Primary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perimetry, pimary, plimary, Portinari, Primaire, Primark, primarly, Primity, Prmary, promary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "primary" (pronounced prī"me'rē) |
| 4 | -m e' r ē | customary, Rosemary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-p-r-r-y" | |
-2 letters: marry, parry, prima. | |
-3 letters: airy, amir, army, mair, miry, pair, parr, pima, pram, pray, prim, rami, ramp, rimy, yirr. | |
-4 letters: aim, air, ami, amp, arm, imp, map, mar, may, mir, pam, par, pay, pia, pry, pya, ram, rap, ray, ria, rim, rip, rya, yam, yap, yar, yip. | |
-5 letters: ai, am, ar, ay, ma, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-p-r-r-y" | |
+2 letters: primarily. | |
+3 letters: micropylar, preprimary. | |
+4 letters: cryptarithm, cryptomeria, imprecatory, polarimetry, postprimary, preliminary, prematurity, temporarily. | |
+5 letters: cryptarithms, cryptomerias, hyperrealism, hyperthermia, paramilitary, premaritally, premaxillary, primordially. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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