Meaning of primary | Babel Free

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1. First or earliest in a group or series
2. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
3. Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others
4. The first year of grade school.
5. A meeting of the voters in a political party to choose delegates for a convention or nominees for office, or a preliminary election to nominate candidates for office.
6. Earliest formed; fundamental
7. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
8. the best part (of a person's etc life, usually early middle age). He is in his prime; the prime of life. fleur ريَعان الشَّباب в разгара на plenitude nejkrásnější doba die Blüte den bedste alder ακμή, άνθοςflor de la vida, plenitud (elu) parimad aastad دوران اوج parhaassa iässä fleur de l'âgeשיא बहार élete teljében, delén bagian terbaik blómi fiore, primavera 全盛 전성기 pats gražumas plaukums puncak bloeibeste alder najlepszy okres życia د ژوند ښه دوره plenitude floarea vârstei расцвет najkrajšie...
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9. Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement
10. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
11. chiefly; in the first place. I wrote the play primarily as a protest, and only secondarily as entertainment. in die eerste plek بِصورَةٍ رَئيسِيَّه، في المَكان الأوَّل главно principalmente především in erster Linie først og fremmest πρωτίστως principalmente; en primer lugar eeskätt در درجه اول؛ اساساً pääasiassa principalementבעיקר मुख्यत:, मूख्य रूप से elsősorban; eredetileg terutama fyrst og fremst principalmente 主として 주로 pirmiausia, visų pirma vispirms; sākumā; galvenokārt terutamanya voor...
12. Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur
13. A primary school.
14. (of pigments, but not of light) those colours from which all others can be made, ie red, blue and yellow. primêre kleure ألوان رَئيسِيَّه основни цветове cores primárias základní barvy die Primärfarben (pl.) primærfarve; grundfarve βασικά χρώματα colores primarios põhivärvused رنگ های اصلی päävärit couleurs fondamentales צִבעֵי יְסוֹד मूलरंग alapszínek warna dasar frum-/grunnlitur colori fondamentali 原色 3원색 pagrindinės spalvos pamatkrāsas warna primer primaire kleuren grunn-/primærfarger kolo...
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15. Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
16. the chief minister of a government. eerste minister رَئيس الوزارَه министър-председател primeiro ministro předseda vlády der/die Premierminister(in) premierminister πρωθυπουργόςprimer ministro peaminister نخست وزیر pääministeri premier ministre ראש הַמֶמשָׁלָה प्रधानमंत्री miniszterelnök perdana menteri forsætisráðherra primo ministro 首相 수상 premjeras, ministras pirmininkas premjerministrs perdana menteri eerste minister statsministerpremier صدراعظم primeiro ministro premier, prim-ministru пре...
17. A primary colour.
18. a number that can only be divided without a remainder by itself and 1, eg 3, 5, 7, 31. priem الأعداد التي تَنْقَسِم على نَفْسِها بدون باقٍ просто число número primo prvočíslo die Primzahl primtal πρώτος αριθμόςnúmero primo algarv عدد اول alkuluku nombre premier מִספָּר רִאשוֹנִי अभाज्य संख्या törzsszám bilangan pokok frumtala, prímtala numero primo 素数 소수 pirminis skaičius pirmskaitlis nombor perdana priemgetalprimtall liczba pierwsza لومړى عدد número primo număr prim простое число prvočíslo p...
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19. The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
20. the evening hours, the time when most viewers are watching television. The programme will be broadcast during prime time. hoofkykktyd ساعات المَساء عِندما يُشاهِد أكبر عَدد مُمكن най-гледано време horário nobre hlavní vysílací čas die Hauptsendezeit bedste sendetid; prime time ζώνη υψηλής τηλεθέασης horas de máxima audiencia parim vaatamisaeg ساعات پربیننده paras katseluaika heures de grande écoute בִּ”שׁעוֹת שִׂיא” प्रमुख समय főműsoridő waktu terbaik (prima serata) 골든 아워 žiūrovams patogiausi...
21. A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
22. prime-time advertising. hoofkyktydagtig في ساعات المَساء، عند مُشاهَدَة أكْبَر عَدد по най-гедано време comerciais em horário nobre reklama v hlavním vysílacím čase die Hauptwerbezeit prime time- που γίνεται κατά τις ώρες υψηλής τηλεθέασης horas de máxima audiencia parimale vaatamisajale sattuv مربوط به ساعات پر بیننده parhaan katseluajan des heures de grande écoute प्रात: समय főműsoridőben sugárzott waktu terbaik (in prima serata) 골든 아워 광고 rodomas vakare, žiūrovams patogiausiu laiku iecienīt...
23. The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
24. inicial, primario-a, rel. al contacto o atención de un caso en su principio;___ physician → médico de cabecera, facultativo que atiende al paciente inicialmente, esp. un pediatra o médico de familia.
25. A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
26. First or highest in rank or importance; principal. See Synonyms at chief.

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Examples

“In recent primaries, for example, nearly 4% of absentees were rejected in Philadelphia; 8% in Kentucky; and 20% in parts of New York City.”

“Before Americans pick a president in November, they get to pick the candidates in a series of primaries and caucuses. […] Biden could still win New Hampshire’s primary through a write-in campaign, but the first sanctioned Democratic contest is in South Carolina in February.”

“Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.”

“`Good Lord, look at that swiftlet, it's got two primaries missing from its left wing!'”

“By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.”

“unknown primary”

“most common primaries”

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