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.
