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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181) He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic.
182) The significance of the South Carolina primary extends far beyond the 37 delegates at stake Saturday.
183) Children of primary school age seem to make only limited use of Creole.
184) In his inauguration speech Brazauskas declared that upholding the independence of the state was his primary aim.
185) It is also the major cause of primary liver cell carcinoma. 7.
186) I got on the bus with some of my friends with whom I went with to primary school.
187) However(Sentencedict), there are plans afoot to see if tutoring in primary schools has any effect on performance later on.
188) More meat or eggs for less feed was the other primary aim.
189) Primary care contracts will be monitored by the purchasing authority and could include medical audit and reaccreditation in the future.
190) Primary investigations into a suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth at a nearby farm have drawn a blank.
191) Eugene McCarthy carried the anti-war banner successfully through one primary after another.
192) It is covered with primary rainforest that rivals the biodiversity of the Amazon.
193) Self-pity tends to block taking action that will be truly effective in reversing the downward spirals of primary and family diseases.
194) The primary outcome was time to withdrawal because of lack of efficacy or adverse events.
195) Will the Government stop pressurising authorities to cease supporting small primary schools through additional support across the county?
196) Non-specific staining was assessed by omission of the primary antibody.
197) Energy is released when the nuclei of the light atomic elements join, so bringing them together is the primary goal.
198) Primary encopresis A full assessment of the reasons why the child has never achieved continence is required.
199) The research involves the use of primary source materials in national and local archives.
200) The contrast for the eleven-year-old with the more informal and less specialist work of the primary school was sharp and abrupt.
201) And this Republican candidate has won the New Hampshire primary with 28 percent of the vote.
202) Our primary objective is to collect, organize and disseminate information and materials relating to academic library orientation and instruction.
203) First, there is space-time, playing a primary role as the arena for all the varied activity of physics.
204) The parents said their children would risk their health by being transferred to Kilbowie Primary School because the building contains asbestos.
205) His primary insight being anatomical, Kuypers was concerned with increasingly powerful ways of tracing fibre connections.
206) But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election.
207) He must bear primary responsibility for the chaos that descended upon the White House when such disclosure did occur.
208) In the white sector, 94 percent of primary school pupils were aged twelve or below.
209) However, vases are the primary motifs in the two designs outlined below.
210) Goldwater, a plain-spoken Arizonan, had assured himself of a first-ballot nomination by defeating Rockefeller in the California primary.