Prime
Definitions
- An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
- The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- A surname.
- The religious service appointed to this hour.
- The early morning generally.
- The earliest stage of something.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
- The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- The priming in a flintlock.
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Contraction of prime lens, a film lens. abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- A stimulus which causes priming.
Equivalents
33 more languages
Esperantoprima
فارسیبهترین
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Magyaralapozelőkészítelsőelsődlegesfénykorfőkitűnőkiválónagyszerűprímprímaprímszámragyogóremekvessző
Italianoadescareall’apicecaricaredare una vernice di fondo sudi prima categoriadi prima qualitàdi prima sceltainiziinizialeinnescarenel fiore degli anninumero primoottimopreparareprimarioprimeprimoprincipaleprincipiotonale
Te Reo Māoritoitū
Românăprim
Русскийважнейшийглавныйгото́вить к рабо́тегрунтова́тьзенитначалоосновнойпервичныйпервоклассныйпервыйпревосходныйпростое числопростойрасцвет
Svenskaapterabörjanförberedaförnämstförstförstklassigfrämstglansdagargrundahuvud-primaprimtalstorhetstidtidigastutvaldviktigast
Tagaloglantay
Tiếng Việtchủ âm
Examples
“His larum bell might lowd and wyde be hard, When cause requyrd, but neuer out of time; Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.”
“They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Pryme […]”
“To this end⟳ we see⟳ how quickly sundry artes Mechanical were found out in the very prime of the world.”
“1645, Edmund Waller, “To a very young Lady” (earlier title: “To my young Lady Lucy Sidney”) in Poems, &c. Written upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons, London: H. Herringman, 1686, p. 101, Hope⟳ waits upon the flowry prime,”
“When I do count⟳ the clock that tells the time, And see⟳ the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver’d o'er with white;”
“Short were her Marriage-Joys; for in the Prime, / Of Youth, her Lord expir’d before his time: […]”
“None but foreigners, excluded by their religion from the cemeteries of the country, are deposited here […]. The far greater part had been cut⟳ off in their prime, by unexpected disease or fatal accident.”
“Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?”
“1965 (November 3rd) "The Courtship of Elly" (Beverly Hillbillies s4e8) Granny Cousin Pearl says that folks back home are beginning to talk⟳, asking about your spinster daughter. Now, Jed, let's not fool ourselves with city talk⟳. You know⟳ and I know⟳ that prime is fourteen. Anything over that, and you're slidin' downhill.”
“And it’s daunting because each segment has to tell⟳ a full, complete⟳ story in something like⟳ six minutes while doing justice to revered source material and including the non-stop laughs and genius gags that characterized The Simpsons in its god-like prime.”
“Give⟳ him always of the prime; And but a little at a time.”
“I found just as we were fearful we would find⟳ that many of the big primes felt that this was a change⟳ of policy on the part of the U.S. Government to let⟳ the big fellows take⟳ care of it, and they were ready to cut⟳ back, and in many instances were cutting back[…]”
“The large primes are struggling to do things the way Anduril does, because they're publicly traded companies with an existing investor class that invested in them to be a certain type⟳ of company.”
“Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt⟳ to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play⟳ with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure⟳ from mathematical patterns involving primes.”
“3 is a prime.”
“I'm threatening to build⟳ a prime here.”
“[…] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve⟳ me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet⟳ in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say⟳ […]”
“Tomlinson, Shawn M. (2015), Going Pro for $200 & How to Choose⟳ a Prime Lens, →ISBN, page 72: “By the time I shifted to my first autofocus film SLR with the Pentax PZ-10, primes were considered things of the past””
“Most primes are won with gaps on the field; most sprints are in bunches.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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