primary

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹi/    美 /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/|/ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹi/|/ˈpɹɑe.m(ə.)ɹiː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
    — In recent primaries, for example, nearly 4% of absentees were rejected in Philadelphia; 8% in Kentucky; and 20% in parts of New York City.
  2. The first year of grade school.
  3. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
  4. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
  5. A primary school.
    — Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
  6. Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
    — `Good Lord, look at that swiftlet, it's got two primaries missing from its left wing!'
  7. A primary colour.
    — By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
    — unknown primary
  11. A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
动词 v.
  1. 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
    — In the New England town where he ran a “couple of night clubs” . he was “primarying the mayor."
  2. To take part in a primary election. US,intransitive,transitive
    — Both were worried that Bailey would break some of their delegate commitments to keep them from primarying.
形容词 adj.
  1. First or earliest in a group or series.
    — Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
  2. Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
    — Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
  3. Earliest formed; fundamental.
  4. Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
  5. Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
  6. Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.

词形变化

more primary comparative most primary superlative primaries plural primaries present,singular,third-person primarying participle,present primaried participle,past primaried past

词汇关系

衍生词
circumprimary coprimary megaprimary nonprimary postprimary preprimary pre-primary primarily primariness primary accent primary alcohol primary amine primary amoebic meningoencephalitis primary bedroom primary care primary cell wall primary cilium primary color primary colour primary data primary education primary energy primary explosive primary fire primary forest primary goods primary healthcare primary hypothermia primary ideal primary immunodeficiency primary industry primary key primary legislation primary life support system primary market primary memory primary metabolite primary myelofibrosis primary offense primary phosphine primary planet primary poverty primary producer primary production primary radar primary rate interface primary reinforcement primary research primary residence primary school primary sector primary source primary storage primary stress primary structure primary surveillance radar primary tense primary time primary time standard primary tooth primary transcript primary valence primary work primary world pseudoprimary secundo-primary subprimary superprimary titan primary Acela primary clown-car primary direct primary dual primary false primary firehouse primary invisible primary jungle primary money primary
相关词
first primus inter pares

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.
词源 3
Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.
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