primary

noun

1. a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

Synonym: primary election

2. one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

Synonym: primary featherprimary quill

3. coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit

e.g. current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil

Synonym: primary coilprimary winding

4. (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it

adj

1. not derived from or reducible to something else
basic

e.g. a primary instinct

2. of primary importance

Synonym: basal

3. of first rank or importance or value
direct and immediate rather than secondary

e.g. primary goals
a primary effect
primary sources
a primary interest

4. of or being the essential or basic part

e.g. an elementary need for love and nurturing

Synonym: elementaryelemental

1. 首要的；主要的
You use primary to describe something that is very important.

e.g. That's the primary reason the company's share price has held up so well...
这是公司股票价格一直居高不下的主要原因。
e.g. I don't think young people's primary aim in life is to get drunk...
我觉得年轻人生活的主要目标并不是一醉方休。

2. （教育）初级的，初等的，小学的
Primary education is given to pupils between the ages of 5 and 11.

primary

e.g. Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880...
直到1880年，英国才开始实行初等义务教育。
e.g. Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
现在，99%的小学生都亲手操作过电脑。

3. 首先的；最早的；最初的
Primary is used to describe something that occurs first.

e.g. It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body...
原发性肿瘤并不会置人于死地，致命的是身体其他部位的继发肿瘤。
e.g. They have been barred from primary bidding for clients.
他们被禁止对客户进行最初的投标。

4. （美国）初选，预选
A primary or a primary election is an election in an American state in which people vote for someone to become a candidate for a political office.

e.g. ...the 1968 New Hampshire primary...
1968年新罕布什尔州的初选
e.g. She won the Democratic primary...
她在民主党的初选中获胜。

1. primary的反义词

1. 主要的：此功能设定之应用为不论是PC之通讯介面图4a或是PLC网路通讯图4b之一的通道连失效(如断线或是通讯介面断讯)时可以自动切换至另一通道,以维持通讯状态不受影响,如果主要的(Primary)通道停止通讯,则备用(Buck-Up)通道会自动地开始通讯,

2. 基本：它包含三类中转队列(Stable queues)在数据库LOG中维护一个基本(primary)截断点,利用它标明事务活动边界-实现LOG空间的回收. 在复制系统中,由RepAgent维护第二(second)截断点,利用它标明事务已被转发给复制服务器-在事务未转发给复制服务器之前,

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3. primary：prim; 首要的