Definizione monolingua

primary

primary (third-person singular simple present primaries, present participle primarying, simple past and past participle primaried)

1. (US) To take part in a primary election

primary (plural primaries)

1. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
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.
5. A primary school.
   • 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement

     Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

6. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
7. A primary colour.
   • 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook

     By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.

primary (comparative more primary, superlative most primary)

1. The first in a group or series.

   Children attend primary school, teenagers attend secondary school.

2. That which is placed ahead of others.

   Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.

Definizione dizionario primary

	primario
	That which is placed ahead of others

	portante
	Che ricopre una funzione di fondamentale sostegno (di un'attività, di un settore e sim.).

di base

elementare

fondamentale

originario

primitivo

primo

principale

Altri significati:

a primary (election)

A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

the first year of grade school

A primary colour.

That which is placed ahead of others.

a preliminary election to select a political candidate

(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.

The first in a group or series.

the first ...

The first year of grade school.

A primary school.

A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

linear (equation)

(US) To take part in a primary election

The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.

Administrative classification in the UK for a road, generally linking larger towns.