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primary
1. a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen (Freq. 3) • Syn: primary election • Hypernyms: election • Hyponyms: direct primary 2. one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing (Freq. 1) • Syn: primary feather, primary quill • Hypernyms: flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather 3. (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it • Topics: astronomy, uranology • Hypernyms: celestial body, heavenly body 4. coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit - current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil • Syn: primary coil, primary winding • Hypernyms: coil • Part Holonyms: transformer
1. of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary (Freq. 16) - primary goals - a primary effect - primary sources - a primary interest • Ant: secondary • Similar to: capital, direct, firsthand, first-string, original, particular, special • See Also: essential, first, original 2. not derived from or reducible to something else; basic (Freq. 8) - a primary instinct • Similar to: underived 3. most important element (Freq. 7) - the chief aim of living - the main doors were of solid glass - the principal rivers of America - the principal example - policemen were primary targets - the master bedroom - a master switch • Syn: chief, main, principal, master • Similar to: important, of import 4. of or being the essential or basic part - an elementary need for love and nurturing • Syn: elementary, elemental • Similar to: basic • Derivationally related forms: element (for: elementary) 5. of primary importance • Syn: basal • Similar to: essential • Derivationally related forms: base (for: basal)
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