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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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excellent
English
Etymology
From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excell?ns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excell? (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel +? -ent.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??ks?l?nt/, /??ks?l?nt/
Adjective
excellent (comparative excellenter or more excellent, superlative excellentest or most excellent)
- Having excelled, having surpassed.
- Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- Exceptionally good of its kind.
- Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
- 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England
- Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite
- Their sorrows are most excellent.
- 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:excellent
Antonyms
- poor
- terrible
Derived terms
- excellence
- excellently
- excellentness
Related terms
- excel
Translations
Adverb
excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)
- (obsolete) Excellently.
- , New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis, hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].
- , New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch excellent, from Middle French excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excell?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k.s??l?nt/
- Hyphenation: ex?cel?lent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Adjective
excellent (comparative excellenter, superlative excellentst)
- (formal) excellent, splendid
- Synonyms: uitmuntend, uitstekend
Inflection
Related terms
- excellentie
French
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin excellens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k.s?.l??/
Adjective
excellent (feminine singular excellente, masculine plural excellents, feminine plural excellentes)
- excellent; splendid
Usage notes
This adjective is generally placed before the noun it modifies.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k.s?l/
Verb
excellent
- third-person plural present indicative of exceller
- third-person plural present subjunctive of exceller
Further reading
- “excellent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
excellent
- third-person plural future active indicative of excell?
Middle French
Noun
excellent m (feminine singular excellente, masculine plural excellens, feminine plural excellentes)
- excellent
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin excell?ns.
Pronunciation
Adjective
excellent m (feminine singular excellenta, masculine plural excellents, feminine plural excellentas)
- excellent
Related terms
- excelléncia
- excellir
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