primary

Definition:
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.
4. Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand.
5. Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic.
6. Most important element.

Use 'primary' in a sentence:

• 1. We are in the same primary school.
• 2. Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880.
• 3. We like primary school students.
• 4. That's the primary reason the company's share price has held up so well.
• 5. She is a primary school teacher.
• 6. One of government's primary duties is the redistribution of income, so that the better off can help the worse off out of poverty.
• 7. Yes, they are at a primary school.
• 8. The company has targeted adults as its primary customers.
• 9. She won the Democratic primary.
• 10. Beside my school is a primary school.
• 11. The family continues to be the primary source of care and comfort for people as they grow older.
• 12. Tests were carried out by teachers on the entire cohort of eight to nine year-olds in their third year at primary school.
• 13. We now need a step change in our secondary schools to match that achieved in our primaries.
• 14. We were classmates in primary school.
• 15. It is always women who are the primary carers.
• 16. The government has now pledged £ 170m over the next six years for improving primary care.
• 17. When did you go to primary school?
• 18. The town has only one primary school.
• 19. They put a high premium on prevention and primary care.
• 20. These are very cute primary school kids.
• 21. In Sierra Leone, English is used as the medium of instruction for all primary education.
• 22. I don't think young people's primary aim in life is to get drunk.
• 23. It is nearly always women who are the primary care givers.
• 24. At the present stage of China, a primary social justness and security system should be established.
• 25. He won the election because the Democrats self-destructed in their primary.
• 26. Can we just backtrack a little bit and look at your primary and secondary education?
• 27. His primary reason for coming was to meet girls.
• 28. It's just a small primary school.
• 29. Tiffany conceptualized herself as a mother, whose primary task was to feed her baby.
• 30. I go to Star Primary School.
• 31. Peter is a primary school pupil.
• 32. They are my primary school classmates.
• 33. It is clear that the primary duty of parents is to provide protection for our children.
• 34. Ninety-nine percent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
• 35. Greenside Primary School.
• 36. I entered a primary school.
• 37. Now primary school students all like me.
• 38. Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
• 39. The primary school is on your right.
• 40. His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems.
• 41. It comes in bright primary colours that kids will love.
• 42. It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body.
• 43. That is, after all, the primary reason we live — to be of service to others.
• 44. She practised the piano in the primary school basement.
• 45. They have been barred from primary bidding for clients.
• 46. She quotes secondary and primary sources without distinction.
• 47. We turn now to our primary question.
• 48. The content of primary education should be the same for everyone.
• 49. Historians use a wide range of primary and secondary sources for their research.
• 50. Although his formal education stopped after primary school, he was an avid reader.
• 51. Computers are now commonplace in primary classrooms.
• 52. New York holds its primary election on Tuesday.