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primary
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pr?m?rius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from pr?mus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?a?m??i/
- (US) enPR: pr??m?r-?, IPA(key): /?p?a??m??i/ or enPR: pr??m?-r?, IPA(key): /?p?a?m??i/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?p??em??i/, /?p??em?i/
Adjective
primary (comparative more primary, superlative most primary)
- first or earliest in a group or series.
- 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed
- the church of Christ, in its primary institution
- , Book II, Chapter VIII
- These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.
- 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed
- main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- first
- primus inter pares
Noun
primary (plural primaries)
- A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- The first year of grade school.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- 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.
- 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- 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.
- 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
- (military) 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.
- (aviation) 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.
- (medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
Translations
References
- primary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
primary (third-person singular simple present primaries, present participle primarying, simple past and past participle primaried)
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) 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.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
Further reading
- primary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- primary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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ascendant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French ascendant, from Latin ascendens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s?nd?nt/
Adjective
ascendant (comparative more ascendant, superlative most ascendant)
- Rising, moving upward.
- Surpassing or controlling.
- An ascendant spirit above him.
- 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
- The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.
Translations
Noun
ascendant (plural ascendants)
- Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
- One man has the ascendant over another.
- 1769, William Robertson, History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V:
- Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
- An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)
- (usu. followed by to) A royal heir assuming (a place of power)
- Ascent; height; elevation.
- (astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)
Translations
Related terms
- ascend
- ascent
- ascendance
- ascendancy/ascendency
- ascending
- ascender
Anagrams
- adnascent
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ascendens, ascendentem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.s??.d??/
Verb
ascendant
- present participle of ascendre
Adjective
ascendant (feminine singular ascendante, masculine plural ascendants, feminine plural ascendantes)
- ascendant
Derived terms
- compatibilité ascendante
Noun
ascendant m (plural ascendants)
- (astrology) ascendant
- supremacy, ascendancy
- (genealogy) ancestor, forefather, progenitor
Further reading
- “ascendant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
ascendant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of ascend?
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