Meaning

11 senses
  1. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.

    Vorwahl

  2. The first year of grade school.

  3. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

  4. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.

  5. A primary school.

  6. Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.

    Handschwinge

    one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

  7. A primary colour.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.

    unknown primary

    most common primaries

  11. A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.

Examples

188 sentences
  1. This is our primary target.

    Це наша основна мета.

    ruЭто наша основная цель.

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  2. My primary concern is your safety.

    deMeine primäre Sorge ist deine Sicherheit.

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  3. Tom is a primary school teacher.

    deTom ist Grundschullehrer.

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  4. Tom is still in primary school.

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  5. I went to primary school in Boston.

    deDie Grundschule habe ich in Boston besucht.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
preliminary election:
ornithology: flight feather:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from p

Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.

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Forms

plural: primaries
Singularprimary
Pluralprimaries

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • primary school
  • primary school teacher
  • a primary school
  • is a primary

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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