Synonym: basic, chief, dominant, essential, first, foremost, fundamental, important, leading, main, paramount, principal. Antonym: secondary. Similar words: primarily, prime, summary, rim, trim, shrimp, image, experiment. Meaning: ['praɪmərɪ] n. 1. a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen 2. one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing 3. coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit. adj. 1. of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand 2. not derived from or reducible to something else; basic 3. most important element 4. of or being the essential or basic part 5. of primary importance.
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91) Each set of sections included a positive colorectal carcinoma control, and a negative control in which the primary antibody was omitted.
92) Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus.
93) Prior to the invention of agriculture, game was both the primary diet and the focus of battles in the fields.
94) The Fellowships have a primary end in themselves in providing the route to sustained abstinence from mood-altering substances and behaviours.
95) The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
96) Which - the accepted practice with trump-cards, or the feelings - is primary?
97) Constable McLennan stated that children of primary school age were allowed to cycle on the pavement.
97) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
98) Third, he ran for president in 1988 and lost a bitter primary battle with George Bush.
99) The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.
100) The sitting-room was long, and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours.
101) He waged an unsuccessful primary bid for president in 1988.
102) The primary outcome was the occurrence of severe clinical events, defined as death or hospital admission irrespective of the cause.
103) Instead, their purpose is to keep adhesive from getting to primary and backup pressure seals during assembly.
104) Instead the primary aim should be the promotion of patient activity within acceptable limits of safety.
105) We agree that primary prevention is the ideal, though its effects are limited in practice.
106) This chapter will attempt to analyse some of the possibilities for the teaching of information skills in the primary school curriculum.
107) The primary aim of the awards is to recognise outstanding bravery in the race of danger by exceptional seniors.
108) However, it is possible that the clients who benefit mostly from primary care might be the nurses themselves.
109) That we adopt a system of Primary and Secondary Visits which would operate over a two year period.
110) Eight bit-planes per memory bank allows 256 levels of the associated primary colour to be represented.
111) A negative control, in which the primary antibody was omitted, was performed for all sections.
112) It contains a number of detailed examples of such work throughout the primary age range.
113) Professional development and postgraduate training in primary health care could be a useful adjunct in improving quality.
114) But when it comes to earning an income, a large percentage still expects the father to be primary breadwinner.
115) It will appear on the March 26 statewide primary ballot.
116) The primary bevels were ground back and feathered away on the grindstone, taking care not to overheat and destroy the temper.
117) Internally the school is organized into separate departments, primary and secondary, which between them cover the entire school age range.
118) For primary class teachers, the National Curriculum and assessment provide the overwhelming preoccupation.
119) If the battle against inflation is primary, central bankers will be described as the most important economic players in the game.
120) The primary danger of war was the irrational arms race and overly hostile relations between the major military powers.