| 释义 |
primary /prīˈmə-ri/ adjective- First
- Original
- Of the first order (eg in a system of successive branchings)
- First-formed
- Primitive
- Chief
- Elementary
- Fundamental
- First-hand, direct
- Belonging to the first stages of education, elementary
- (of an industry) involving extraction of raw materials
- (of a feather) growing on the manus (ornithology)
- Relating to primaries (US)
- (with cap) Palaeozoic (but orig applied to rocks supposed to be older than any fossiliferous strata; geology)
noun- That which is highest in rank or importance, a planet in relation to its satellites
- A primary coil
- A primary feather
- A primary school
- A substance obtained directly, by extraction and purification, from natural, or crude technical, raw material (cf intermediate)
- A meeting of the voters of a political party in an electoral division to nominate candidates, or to elect delegates to a nominating convention representing a larger area (US politics)
- An election (also primary election) by local members of a party of candidates to be nominated for election, or of delegates to nominate them (US politics)
- (with cap) the Palaeozoic era (geology)
ORIGIN: L prīmārius, from prīmus first prīˈmarily adverb prīˈmariness noun primary assembly noun In US politics, a primary primary battery or primary cell noun A battery or cell producing an electric current by irreversible chemical action primary care noun The first level of health care, as provided by a general practitioner or nurse primary coil noun One carrying an inducing current primary colours plural noun - Those from which all others can be derived by mixing, that is (for light) the three spectral colours red, green and blue, which, mixed equally, produce white light, or (for pigments) cyan, magenta and yellow, which, mixed equally produce black (printing), or (in general use) red, yellow and blue
- Also, all the colours of the spectrum, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
primary meristem noun Any of the three meristematic tissues in the developing plant embryo, from which epidermis, ground tissue and vascular bundles arise primary planet noun A planet distinguished from a satellite primary process noun (psychiatry) A thought process governed by the pleasure principle primary production noun (ecology) see production under produce primary school noun A school providing primary education, usu for children between five and eleven years primary stress noun (linguistics) The main stress in a word, the stress that falls on the most heavily accented syllable |