primary
初级,初级的,主要的,首要的
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Definitions
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- : first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- : first in order in any series, sequence, etc.
- : first in time; earliest; primitive.
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of primary school: the primary grades.
- : constituting or belonging to the first stage in any process.
- : of the nature of the ultimate or simpler constituents of which something complex is made up: Animals have a few primary instincts.
- : original; not derived or subordinate; fundamental; basic. pertaining to or being a firsthand account, original data, etc., or based on direct knowledge, as in primary source; primary research.
- : immediate or direct, or not involving intermediate agency: primary perceptions.
- : Sociology. conceived as derived from the primary group and culturally defined as being necessary to the welfare of the individual and society.
- : Ornithology. pertaining to any of the set of flight feathers situated on the distal segment of a bird's wing.
- : Electricity. noting or pertaining to the circuit, coil, winding, or current that induces current in secondary windings in an induction coil, transformer, or the like.
- : Chemistry. involving or obtained by replacement of one atom or group.noting or containing a carbon atom united to no other or to only one other carbon atom in a molecule.
- : Grammar. having a root or other unanalyzable element as the underlying form: The word "dole" is a primary derivative formed by modification of "deal," and "phonograph" is a primary derivative from "phono-" and "-graph." having reference to present or future time.Compare secondary.
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plural pri·ma·ries.
- : something that is first in order, rank, or importance.
- : U.S. Politics. Also called primary election. a preliminary election in which voters of each party nominate candidates for office, party officers, etc.Compare closed primary, direct primary, indirect primary, open primary. a meeting of the voters of a political party in an election district for nominating candidates for office, choosing delegates for a convention, etc.; caucus.
- : primary color.
- : Ornithology. a primary feather.
- : Electricity. a winding in a transformer or the like that carries a current and that induces a current in secondary windings.
- : Astronomy. a body in relation to a smaller body or smaller bodies revolving around it, as a planet in relation to its satellites.the brighter of the two stars comprising a double star.Compare companion.
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pri·ma·ried, pri·ma·ry·ing.
- : U.S. Politics. to challenge or oppose in a primary election, usually for strong ideological reasons: The congressman was primaried by a more conservative candidate.
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pri·ma·ried, pri·ma·ry·ing.
- : U.S. Politics. to run as a candidate in a primary election.
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Examples
The primary piece of Clubhouse’s user recommendation engine relies on access to your contacts.
She says they would benefit the entire region, but primary El Salvador because the Legislative Assembly has either blocked or ignored.
His primary concern, however, is helping lift Schalke from the bottom of the Bundesliga.
The commission’s primary collection method is to send letters, but they weren’t sent on time and, in some cases, weren’t sent at all, the audit found.
It is also documented that coyotes are a primary predator of urban Canada goose nests.
Scruff believes that sex is not the primary concern of users.
He has picked pre-primary brawls with Christie, Perry, and Marco Rubio.
“You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.
Even then, most of us doubted he would show up and actually sign the papers allowing him to enter the 1992 New Hampshire primary.
It was Dec. 20, 1991, the deadline for the New Hampshire primary.
Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
What the ear hears is the fundamental pitch only; the overtones harmonize with the primary or fundamental tone, and enrich it.
That—and no existing institution and no current issue—is the primary concern of the present age.
He also instituted primary schools in every commune, and started an cole Normale for the training of teachers.
Primary anemia is that which progresses without apparent cause.