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secondary
English
Etymology
From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secund?rius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s?k?nd(?)??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?k?n?d??i/
Adjective
secondary (not generally comparable, comparative more secondary, superlative most secondary)
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
- (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
- (geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- (geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
- (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
- the secondary symptoms of syphilis
- Of less than primary importance.
- (education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- (manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
- (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
- Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
- (taxonomy, not comparable) Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
secondary (plural secondaries)
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- (aviation) A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- (military) The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary; in a few extremely large weapons, the secondary may itself implode a fusion tertiary.
- (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
- (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
- (astronomy) A secondary circle.
- (astronomy) A satellite.
- (education) A secondary school.
- There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
Translations
Middle English
Adjective
secondary
- Alternative form of secundarie
Noun
secondary
- Alternative form of secundarie
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prime
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French prime, from Latin primus (“first”), from earlier pr?smos < *pr?semos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pr?m, IPA(key): /p?a??m/
- Hyphenation: prime
- Rhymes: -a?m
Adjective
prime (not comparable)
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- Synonyms: greatest, main, most important, primary, principal, top
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- Synonyms: earliest, first, original
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- Synonyms: excellent, top quality
- (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- (mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- (obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.
Synonyms
- (having no nontrivial factors): indivisible
Hyponyms
- biprime
- pseudoprime
- semiprime
- (having exactly two integral factors): coprime
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
prime (plural primes)
- (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 9, p. 314,[1]
- His larum bell might lowd and wyde be hard,
- When cause requyrd, but neuer out of time;
- Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 9, p. 314,[1]
- (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
- (obsolete) The early morning generally.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 6, p. 81,[2]
- They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Pryme […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 6, p. 81,[2]
- (now rare) The earliest stage of something.
- 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, London, 1604, Book 1, p. 69,[3]
- To this end we see how quickly sundry artes Mechanical were found out in the very prime of the world.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, “To a very young Lady” (earlier title: “To my young Lady Lucy Sidney”) in Poems, &c. Written upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons, London: H. Herringman, 1686, p. 101,[4]
- Hope waits upon the flowry prime,
- 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, London, 1604, Book 1, p. 69,[3]
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12,[5]
- When I do count the clock that tells the time,
- And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
- When I behold the violet past prime,
- And sable curls all silver’d o'er with white;
- 1813, John Chetwode Eustace, A Tour through Italy, London: J. Mawman, Volume 1, Chapter 10, pp. 225-226,[6]
- None but foreigners, excluded by their religion from the cemeteries of the country, are deposited here […] . The far greater part had been cut off in their prime, by unexpected disease or fatal accident.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
- Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12,[5]
- The chief or best individual or part.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, “To a Lady, who desired the author to write some verses upon her in the heroic style” in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, London: W. Bowyer et al., Volume 7, p. 396,[7]
- Give no more to ev’ry guest
- Than he’s able to digest:
- Give him always of the prime;
- And but a little at a time.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, “To a Lady, who desired the author to write some verses upon her in the heroic style” in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, London: W. Bowyer et al., Volume 7, p. 396,[7]
- (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- (backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
- The symbol ? used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- (chemistry, 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.
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- (obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, pp. 95–96,[8]
- […] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say […]
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, pp. 95–96,[8]
- (film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens
- Tomlinson, Shawn M. (2015) Going Pro for $200 & How to Choose a Prime Lens, ?ISBN: “By the time I shifted to my first autofocus film SLR with the Pentax PZ-10, primes were considered things of the past”
Synonyms
- (early morning generally): See Thesaurus:early morning or Thesaurus:morning
- (most active, thriving, or successful stage or period): bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak
- (chief or best individual or part): choice, prize, quality, select
- (algebra: prime element of a mathematical structure): prime number (when an integer)
Antonyms
- (algebra: prime element of a mathematical structure): composite
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- primality
Translations
Etymology 2
Related to primage and primus.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pr?m, IPA(key): /p?a??m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
- Hyphenation: prime
Verb
prime (third-person singular simple present primes, present participle priming, simple past and past participle primed)
- (transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
- You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
- (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be renewed.
- (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- (intransitive, of a steam boiler) 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.
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
- to prime a witness
- The boys are primed for mischief.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
- to prime trees
- (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
Synonyms
- (to apply a coat of primer paint to): ground, undercoat
Translations
Etymology 3
From French prime (“reward, prize, bonus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?i?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Noun
prime (plural primes)
- (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
- 1997 Arnie Baker, Smart Cycling: Successful Training and Racing for Riders of All Levels
- Most primes are won with gaps on the field; most sprints are in bunches.
- 1997 Arnie Baker, Smart Cycling: Successful Training and Racing for Riders of All Levels
Derived terms
- primer
Related terms
Anagrams
- Priem, emirp, imper.
Albanian
Etymology
From proj (“to guard, defend”).
Noun
prime f pl (definite plural primet)
- remedies
Related terms
- proj
References
French
Etymology
From the feminine of Old French prim, prin, from Latin pr?mus, from earlier pr?smos < *pr?semos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?im/
- Rhymes: -im
Adjective
prime (plural primes)
- first thing
Derived terms
- de prime abord
Noun
prime f (plural primes)
- reward; prize; bonus
- premium (insurance policy)
Derived terms
- chasseur de primes
- en prime
- prime de départ
- prime de bienvenue
Further reading
- “prime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- imper
Interlingua
Adjective
prime
- first
Italian
Adjective
prime
- feminine plural of primo
Anagrams
- premi
Latin
Numeral
pr?me
- vocative masculine singular of pr?mus
References
- prime in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- prime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pri.me]
Adjective
prime
- nominative feminine plural of prim
- accusative feminine plural of prim
- nominative neuter plural of prim
- accusative neuter plural of prim
Spanish
Verb
prime
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of primar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of primar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of primar.
Tarantino
Adjective
prime
- first
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