primary

Meaning

Adj

1. First or earliest in a group or series.
2. Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
3. Earliest formed; fundamental.
4. Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
5. Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
6. Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.

Noun

1. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
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.
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.
11. A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.

Verb

1. To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
2. To take part in a primary election.

Concepts

primary

first

basic

fundamental

main

elementary

original

initial

principal

chief

beginning

primitive

major

elemental

essential

prime

cardinal

introductory

preliminary

rudimentary

basal

primary winding

primal

primordial

capital

incipient

pristine

primary election

primary feather

primary quill

primary coil

foremost

leading

ordinary

𐐹𐑉𐐴𐑋𐐯𐑉𐐨

former

preparatory

initiatory

paramount

master

big

important

underlying

true

actual

central

supreme

abecedarian

rough

first-class

one grade

first-order

linear

raw

nomination

preliminary contest

preliminary election

basis

foundation

old

lower

customary

traditional

bottom

mainline

pivotal

archetypal

primary planet

primary colour

direct

first-hand

prime cost

pri

preemptive

P

authoritative

deep

difficult

grave

great

high

large

momentous

profound

responsible

serious

weighty

wise

aBC

inceptive

originative

staple

rudimental

primary body

primary component

primary star

elemental term

elementary item

constitutive

first order

first step

indigenous

native

idiopathic

protopathic

aboriginal

initially

originally

primate

overriding

fiducial

grassroots

no-frills

run-of-the-mill

vanilla

working

proper

regular

veritable

virtual

conspicuous

prominent

most significant

supporting

primeval

real

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹaɪməɹi/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

The primary coil has fifty turns .