a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
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one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
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(astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
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coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
<noun.artifact> current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil [ adj ]
of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
<adj.all> primary goals a primary effect primary sources a primary interest
not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
<adj.all> a primary instinct
most important element
<adj.all> 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
of or being the essential or basic part
<adj.all> an elementary need for love and nurturing
of primary importance
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Primary \Pri"ma*ry\, a. [L. primarius, fr. primus first: cf. F. primaire. See {Prime}, a., and cf. {Premier}, {Primero}.] 1. First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
The church of Christ, in its primary institution. --Bp. Pearson.
These I call original, or primary, qualities of body. --Locke.
2. First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
3. First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
4. (Geol.) Earliest formed; fundamental.
5. (Chem.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
{Primary alcohol} (Organic Chem.), any alcohol which possess the group {CH2.OH}, and can be oxidized so as to form a corresponding aldehyde and acid having the same number of carbon atoms; -- distinguished from {secondary & tertiary alcohols}.
{Primary amine} (Chem.), an amine containing the amido group, or a derivative of ammonia in which only one atom of hydrogen has been replaced by a basic radical; -- distinguished from {secondary & tertiary amines}.
{Primary amputation} (Surg.), an amputation for injury performed as soon as the shock due to the injury has passed away, and before symptoms of inflammation supervene.
{Primary axis} (Bot.), the main stalk which bears a whole cluster of flowers.
{Primary colors}. See under {Color}.
{Primary meeting}, a meeting of citizens at which the first steps are taken towards the nomination of candidates, etc. See {Caucus}.
{Primary pinna} (Bot.), one of those portions of a compound leaf or frond which branch off directly from the main rhachis or stem, whether simple or compounded.
{Primary planets}. (Astron.) See the Note under {Planet}.
{Primary qualities of bodies}, such are essential to and inseparable from them.
{Primary quills} (Zo["o]l.), the largest feathers of the wing of a bird; primaries.
{Primary rocks} (Geol.), a term early used for rocks supposed to have been first formed, being crystalline and containing no organic remains, as granite, gneiss, etc.; -- called also {primitive rocks}. The terms Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary rocks have also been used in like manner, but of these the last two only are now in use.
{Primary salt} (Chem.), a salt derived from a polybasic acid in which only one acid hydrogen atom has been replaced by a base or basic radical.
{Primary syphilis} (Med.), the initial stage of syphilis, including the period from the development of the original lesion or chancre to the first manifestation of symptoms indicative of general constitutional infection.
{Primary union} (Surg.), union without suppuration; union by the first intention.
Primary \Pri"ma*ry\, n.; pl. {Primaries}. 1. That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
2. A primary meeting; a caucus.
3. (Zo["o]l.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See {Plumage}, and Illust. of {Bird}.
4. (Astron.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under {Planet}.
Turco said the study assumes that in even a small nuclear exchange the primary target would be oil and gas storage areas because such material is vital to military defense.
The 66-year-old, auburn-haired "Red Barron" was narrowly defeated in the Democratic primary on Tuesday.
During the primary campaigns, Bush was on the receiving end of more jokes than all his Democratic opponents combined.
Three securities firms joined the elite ranks of primary dealers in U.S. government securities, but it's equally significant that Yamaichi Securities Co. of Japan didn't make the list.
Gilbreath has declined to say he voted for in Texas' Republican presidential primary.
The McMartin case, which had become a symbol of prosecutorial excess, was widely blamed for his defeat in the Democratic primary.
Both planned visits to Oregon, ahead of Tuesday's primary there, and California, which ends the primary season June 7 along with New Jersey, New Mexico and Montana.
Both planned visits to Oregon, ahead of Tuesday's primary there, and California, which ends the primary season June 7 along with New Jersey, New Mexico and Montana.
The debate over how much and how fast to cut interest rates was expected to be the primary topic today when top Fed officials gathered behind closed doors for their final monetary strategy session of 1990.
BUSH WON the Illinois GOP primary, as Simon defeated his Democratic rivals.
In the primary market, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, Austria's export credit agency, found fairly good initial demand for a $200 million Eurodollar fixed-rate bond.
The Democrats focused on New York and its April 19 turning-point primary with 255 delegates, with Michael Dukakis and Albert Gore Jr. both waging war on drugs.
A 2-foot metal rod accidentally put in upside-down caused the flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror, NASA investigators said Thursday.
A race against Mr D'Amato would whet every appetite for political blood, but the Senator's control of the state Republican party is such that challenging him in a primary would be tough.
Mr. Byrne says Fireman's Fund will probably pay hundreds of millions in primary claims, but, after taxes and use of its reinsurance lines, the company's fourthquarter charge against earnings shouldn't top $50 million.
However, the program allows a Medicaid recipient to retain his home _ usually a person's primary asset _ as long as a family member is living there or the recipient expects to return to the home.
The Jordanian port of Aqaba is explicitly included in the "primary area of operation" in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Red Sea announced by the Pentagon.
Thomas M. McGrath has been named to the new post of chairman and chief executive officer of BEI Golembe Consulting, the company's primary consulting subsidiary.
There was a time in American history when the primary line of attack was that capitalist interests were dragging the country into wars and disputes.
Daniel served three two-year terms as governor from 1957-63 but lost an unprecedented bid for a fourth term in a Democratic primary race won by John Connally.
Jesse Jackson, reaching out to Jewish primary voters in New York, said Friday he was trying to "heal relationships" that frayed during his 1984 presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, London share prices dropped sharply on the jolt that President Bush's political standing took in the New Hampshire primary election, and Frankfurt stocks eased on profit-taking.
Mr. Lipper says his primary contribution to the movie and book was to convince the filmmakers that Wall Street isn't just a giant "casino," and that insider trading is an "aberration."
The winner of the primary will face independent candidate Alderman Timothy Evans and the Republican candidate chosen in the GOP primary in an April 4 special election to serve the two-year balance of the late Mayor Harold Washington's unfinished term.
The winner of the primary will face independent candidate Alderman Timothy Evans and the Republican candidate chosen in the GOP primary in an April 4 special election to serve the two-year balance of the late Mayor Harold Washington's unfinished term.
It might not have been necessary for Marc Rich to lodge an alternative defence on the merits on October 1988, but the pleading made it abundantly clear that the primary purpose of the document was to challenge the jurisdiction.
GEIS was introduced five years ago as part of a programme to wean South Africa from its overdependence on primary commodity exports by offering a wide range of subsidies for the export of manufactured goods.
The Massachusetts governor spent four days campaigning in Ohio and Indiana, but figured only a two-day swing through next week's primary states in West Virginia and Nebraska would be sufficient to move them into his column.
Only 968 primary school teachers voted for a boycott, with 6,939 (88 per cent) against.
But he switched parties because he calculated that the campaign leading to the Sept. 11 GOP primary would be a good forum for his platform of "immediate legalization" of marijuana and the licensing of other drugs.