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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
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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