primary
US: /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/
UK: /pɹˈaɪməɹi/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
primary /'praiməri/- tính từ
- nguyên thuỷ, đầu, đầu tiên
- primary rocks: đá nguyên sinh
- gốc, nguyên, căn bản
- the primary meaning of a word: nghĩa gốc của một từ
- sơ đẳng, sơ cấp
- primary school: trường sơ cấp
- primary education: giáo dục sơ đẳng
- primary particle: (vật lý) hạt sơ cấp
- chủ yếu, chính, bậc nhất
- the primary aim: mục đích chính
- primary stress: trọng âm chính
- the primary tenses: (ngôn ngữ học) những thời chính (hiện tại, tương lai, quá khứ)
- of primary importance: quan trọng bậc nhất
- (địa lý,địa chất) (thuộc) đại cổ sinh
- primary battery
- (điện học) bộ pin
- primary meeting (assembly)
- hội nghị tuyển lựa ứng cử viên
- nguyên thuỷ, đầu, đầu tiên
- danh từ
- điều đầu tiên
- điều chính, điều chủ yếu, điều căn bản
- (hội họa) màu gốc
- (thiên văn học) hành tinh sơ cấp (hành tinh xoay quanh mặt trời)
- hội nghị tuyển lựa ứng cử viên
- (địa lý,địa chất) đại cổ sinh
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, noun+ adjective
1 [usually before noun] main; most important; basic: The primary aim of this course is to improve your spoken English. + Our primary concern must be the children. + Good health care is of primary importance.
2 [usually before noun] developing or happening first; earliest: primary causes + The disease is still in its primary stage.
3 [only before noun] (especially BrE) connected with the education of children between the ages of about five and eleven: primary teachers
Compare: ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY
+ noun (plural primaries) (also primary election) (in the US) an election in which people in a particular area vote to choose a candidate for a future important election: the Illinois primary + the presidential primaries
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 first, prime, principal, chief, main, leading, pre-eminent, cardinal, fundamental, basic, essential, predominant, elementary, elemental, underlying:
The primary reason I want to see you is to discuss your future with the company. The primary meaning of a word is given first.
2 earliest, first, original, initial, primitive, primeval, primordial, embryonic, germinal, beginning, ultimate:
The primary source of life was possibly a sort of soup containing proteins and other molecules
3 firsthand, direct, immediate:
Bauxite is the primary source of aluminium ore.
4 elementary, basic, rudimentary, fundamental:
One of the primary lessons we are taught is consideration for others
5 unmixed, unadulterated, pure, simple, rudimentary, fundamental, principal:
The primary colours in art are red, yellow, and blue.
Concise dictionary
primaries'praɪmərɪnoun
+a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
+one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
+coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
adj.
+of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand
+not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
+most important element
+of or being the essential or basic part
+of primary importance
