primary

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 See also 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.6 External links

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpraɪməri/, SAMPA: /"praIm@ri/
• (US) enPR: prīʹmĕr-ē, IPA: /ˈpraɪmɛri/, SAMPA: /"praImEri/ or enPR: prīʹmə-rē, IPA: /ˈpraɪməri/, SAMPA: /"praIm@ri/
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[edit] Etymology

From Latin primarius (“‘of the first, of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent’”) < primus (“‘first’”); see prime. Cf. French: primaire and primer and premier.

[edit] Adjective

primary (comparative more primary, superlative most primary)

1. The first in a group or series.

   Children attend primary school, teenagers attend secondary school.

2. That which is placed ahead of others.

   Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.

[edit] Derived terms

• primarily
• primary care
• primary color, primary colour
• primary producer
• primary research
• primary school
• primary source

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• first
• primus inter pares
• secondary (2)
• tertiary (3)
• quaternary (4)

[edit] Noun

primary (plural primaries)

1. A preliminary election to select a political candidate.
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.
5. A primary school.
   • 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement

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

6. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
7. A primary colour.
   • 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook

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

[edit] Translations

• Primary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

[edit] Verb

to primary (third-person singular simple present primaries, present participle primarying, simple past and past participle primaried)

1. (US) To take part in a primary election

[edit] External links

• primary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• primary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911