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n. 最主要者, 原色 a. 主要的, 初期的, 根本的, 原始的, 首要的, 基本的 [计] 初等量; 主要的; 一次的

发音

UK /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹi/
CA /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/
US /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/
CA /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹi/
US /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹi/
AU /ˈpɹɑe.m(ə.)ɹiː/
NZ /ˈpɹaɪ.m(ə.)ɹiː/
NZ /ˈpɹɑe̯.mə.ɹiː/
NZ /ˈpɹaɪm.ɹiː/
NZ /ˈpɹɑe̯m.ɹiː/

词形变化

primaries 复数 primaries primaried primaries 三单 primarying primarying 现在分词 primaried 过去式 primaried 过去分词 more primary 比较级 most primary 最高级

教材释义与例句

名词

原色;最主要者

形容词

主要的;初级的;基本的

most important

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.

  2. 2.

    The first year of grade school.

  3. 3.

    A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

  4. 4.

    The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.

  5. 5.

    A primary school.

  6. 6.

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

    生物 动物学
  7. 7.

    A primary colour.

  8. 8.

    The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.

    政治 军事
  9. 9.

    A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.

    航空 商务 工程
  10. 10.

    The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.

    医学

    unknown primary

    most common primaries

  11. 11.

    A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.

    商务 工程 物理 电子
v.
  1. 1.

    To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.

    美国 不及物 及物 政治
  2. 2.

    To take part in a primary election.

    美国 不及物 及物
adj. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    First or earliest in a group or series.

    Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.

    , Book II, Chapter VIII These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.

  2. 2.

    Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.

    第一的

    最初

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

  3. 3.

    Earliest formed; fundamental.

    地质
  4. 4.

    Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

    化学
  5. 5.

    Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.

    医学
  6. 6.

    Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.

    医学

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词源

Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.

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