From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wp] [en]
*** Etymology
[en], from [la] (first; whence the [en] adjective [en]) + [la] (whence the
[en] suffix [en]); compare the [fr], [fr], and [fr]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [prīʹmĕr-ē] , [en] _or_ [prīʹmə-rē] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en] [en-adj]
1. [first] or earliest in a group or series.
2. * [passage=the church of Christ, in its PRIMARY institution]
3. * [RQ:Locke Human Understanding] , Book II, Chapter VIII
4. *: These I call original, or PRIMARY , qualities of body.
5. [main] ; principal ; chief ; placed ahead of others.
6. [en] Earliest formed; fundamental .
7. [en] Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
8. [en] Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
9. [en] Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc..
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[first in a group or series]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb] , [ceb]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Kurdish:
- Norman: [nrf]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
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[that which is placed ahead of others]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] , [az]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Mari:
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
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- Telugu: [te]
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**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A primary election ; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. The first year of grade school .
5. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible .
6. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
7. A primary school .
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2001 | author=David Woods; Martyn Cribb | title=Effective LEAs and school improvement
|passage=Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach,
whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of PRIMARIES as
mini-EAZs.}}
1. [en] Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
2. * [1=en]
3. A primary colour .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2003 | author=Julie A Jacko; Andrew Sears | title=The human-computer interaction handbook
|passage=By adding and subtracting the three PRIMARIES, cyan, yellow, and
magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.}}
1. [en] 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.
2. [en] 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 .
3. [en] The primary site of a disease ; the original location or source of the disease.
4. [en] A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary .
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|Acela primary|clown-car primary|direct primary|dual primary|false
primary|firehouse primary|invisible primary|jungle primary|money primary }}
**** Translations
[preliminary election]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Spanish: [es]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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[first year of grade school]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
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[base or fundamental component]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Spanish: [es]
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[ornithology: flight feather]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
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- Telugu: [te]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] 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 ideological ly extreme .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
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9. * [en]
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11. * [en]
12. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=Chandelis Duster | title=Parkland shooting survivor calls for House GOP leader to denounce Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene | magazine=w:CNN | url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/politics/david-hogg-marjorie-taylor-greene-cnntv/index.html | date=2021-01-28 | quotee=w:David Hogg | passage=
“My message to Kevin McCarthy is, take all of her committee assignments away …
also, don’t support her when she runs for re-election again and try to get her
PRIMARIED. If you say this is not your party, actually call it out and hold
her accountable,” Hogg told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.”}}
1. [en] To take part in a primary election .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
*** References
- [pedia]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
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