Meaning of Prime | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
2. The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
   historical
3. A surname.
4. The religious service appointed to this hour.
5. The early morning generally.
   obsolete
6. The earliest stage of something.
   archaic
7. The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
8. The chief or best individual or part.
9. Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
10. The first note or tone of a musical scale.
11. The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
12. A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
13. A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
14. A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.
15. The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
16. 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.
    obsolete
17. An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
18. The priming in a flintlock.
    obsolete
19. Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
    abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
20. A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
21. A stimulus which causes priming.

Equivalents

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.”

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