prime

Meaning

Adj

1. First in importance, degree, or rank.
2. First in time, order, or sequence.
3. First in excellence, quality, or value.
4. Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
5. Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
6. Having its complement closed under multiplication.
7. Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
8. Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
9. Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
10. (obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.

Noun

1. The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
2. The religious service appointed to this hour.
3. (obsolete) The early morning generally.
4. The earliest stage of something.
5. The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
6. The chief or best individual or part.
7. Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
8. The first note or tone of a musical scale.
9. The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
10. A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
11. A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
12. Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
13. The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
14. (obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
15. An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
16. (obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
17. Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
18. A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
19. A stimulus which causes priming.

Verb

1. To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
2. To apply a coat of primer paint to.
3. (obsolete) To be renewed.
4. To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
5. To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
6. To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
7. To prepare; to make ready.
8. To instruct beforehand, as for an examination; to coach.
9. (obsolete) To trim or prune.
10. To mark with a prime mark.

Noun

An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

Synonyms

heyday

excellent

chief

bloom

principal

first-rate

peak

best

primary

prime number

top

🔝

first

1st

choice

flower

🌸

main

superior

first-class

load

capital

blossom

🌼

foremost

leading

zenith

premier

superb

basic

primal

select

highest

prime quantity

efflorescence

master

prize

paramount

quality

ready

key

🔑

ground

wonderful

ringleader

meridian

fine

staple

new

🆕

summit

supreme

original

conspicuous

culprit

initial

perfect

undercoat

flush

untainted

virgin

prosperity

beginning

prime of life

premium

chief instigator

fill

head a conspiracy

important one

prepare for shooting

priming

line

litter

live up to

lushness

magistracy

magnificent

mainline

make out

man

👨

marvellous

marvelous

meet

middle age

midlife

occupy

origin

origination

outset

outstanding

overriding

pack

perfection

phenomenal

pick

⛏️

pitch

pivotal

point

precondition

prepare

prima

primate

prime rate

principle

pukka

rehearse

ripping

satisfy

selected

sermonize

set

signal

sound off

splendid

start

startling

stuff

topmost

top off

tune

tune in

tune up

turn

tutor

tweak

ultimate

underlying

unison

utmost

wad

Golden Age

hop up

hot up

make ready

primo

soup up

strike up

make full

being at one’s best

catechise

acne

paint primer

semantic primitive

simple quantity

particular one

primer coating

semantic prime

good

👍

absolute

acme

adulthood

amazing

archetypal

astonishing

attune

awesome

basis

big

bottom

brew

bully

catechize

central

cephalic

charge

close

coach

coat

🧥

cock

commencement

complete

concoct

discharge

drench

earlier

earliest

elder

elemental

energise

energize

essential

eventual

excite

exquisite

farce

fill in

fill out

fill up

final

flood

flourish

flourishing

forepart

fulfil

fulfill

fundamental

get ready

great

greatest

head

imbue

impregnate

inception

incipience

incipiency

incunabula

inflate

infuse

instruct

integrity

last

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹaɪ̯m/

Etymology

Borrowed from French prime, from Latin primus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo.
The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

Sentences

All prime and second majors became known as majors .

A classic example of a one-way function is multiplication of very large prime numbers .

He remains Finland's longest-serving prime minister .

Furthermore , the following was shown: Let " p " be a Wieferich prime .