primary
/'praiməri/
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Definition
Adjective:
- First or highest in rank, importance, or value; principal: Something that is "primary" is the most important or fundamental element in a situation.
- Earliest in time or order of development; fundamental: This refers to something that is original, basic, or not derived from something else.
- Relating to the education of children between the ages of about five and eleven: This describes the first stage of formal education.
Noun:
- A preliminary election to appoint delegates or select candidates for a principal election: This is a political event where voters choose their party's candidate for a later general election.
- A primary color: In art and physics, this is one of a set of colors from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing.
- A primary feather: In ornithology, this is one of the main flight feathers on a bird's wing.
- The primary coil: In electricity, this is the coil in a transformer that receives the input current.
Examples
Adjective:
- The primary goal of the project is to help the community. (The most important goal...)
- Food and shelter are primary needs for survival. (The most basic, fundamental needs...)
- She teaches at a primary school. (A school for young children in the first stage of education.)
Noun:
- He won the Democratic primary in New Hampshire. (The preliminary election to select a candidate.)
- Red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors. (The basic colors from which others are made.)
- The bird's damaged primary feathers affected its ability to fly. (The main flight feathers.)
Advanced Usage
- "Primary source": An original document, recording, or artifact created at the time under study.
- Historians rely on primary sources like letters and diaries.
- "Primary responsibility": The main or most important duty.
- My primary responsibility is to ensure everyone's safety.
- "Of primary importance": Being the most significant consideration.
- In this negotiation, trust is of primary importance.
Variants and Related Words
- Primarily (adverb): For the most part; mainly.
- This book is primarily intended for students.
- Primacy (noun): The state of being first in importance.
- The primacy of the individual is a key principle.
Synonyms
- Main: Most important.
- Principal: First in order of importance.
- Fundamental: Forming a necessary base or core.
- Chief: Most important.
Antonyms
- Secondary: Coming after, and less important than, something primary.
- Minor: Lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance.
- Derivative: Originating from, or based on, something else.
Related Phrases
- Primary care: Basic or general health care provided by a doctor.
- You should see your primary care physician for a check-up.
- Primary industry: An industry involved in the extraction of natural resources, like farming or mining.
- The country's economy was once based on primary industries.
Adjective
- of primary importance
- of or being the essential or basic part
- an elementary need for love and nurturing
- most important element
- the chief aim of living
- the main doors were of solid glass
- the principal rivers of America
- the principal example
- policemen were primary targets
- the master bedroom
- a master switch
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- a primary instinct
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- primary goals
- a primary effect
- primary sources
- a primary interest
Noun
- coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
- current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
- one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen