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- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
- the first of a series of actions
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
- the initial part of the introduction
- an open or empty space in or between things
- opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
- a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- becoming open or being made open
- a possible alternative
- the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- the act of opening something
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few moves in a game.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A time available in a schedule.
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- Ranking first.
- Providing guidance or direction.
- Occurring in advance; preceding.
- greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
- having the leading position or higher score in a contest
- indicating the most important performer or role
- going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way
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- The first year of grade school.
- (aviation) 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.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) 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.
- A primary colour.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- A primary school.
- 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
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
adj
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
verb
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) 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.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
adj
- first in order of importance
- Designates the first in an order of precedence.
- early testing stage of a software or hardware product
- Clipping of alphabetical.
- (of person, object or action) Exhibiting characteristics of the alpha male/female archetype.
- (astronomy) Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation.
noun
- the beginning of a series or sequence
- the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet
- (computer graphics) Ellipsis of alpha layer.
- (software engineering) The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.
- Alternative letter-case form of Alpha (“member of Generation Alpha”).
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a dominant secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an omega, with males of this type often having canine-like genitalia.
- (statistics) The significance level of a statistical test; the alpha level.
- A person, especially a male, who is dominant, successful and attractive; (see alpha male).
- The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
- (aviation) An angle of attack.
- (informal) Clipping of alphabet.
- (finance) The return of a given asset or portfolio adjusted for systematic risk.
- (sciences) The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix.
- Latin alpha: the Latin letter Ɑ (minuscule: ɑ).
- (computer graphics) The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the alpha channel.
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- the person who is head of government (in several countries)
- the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
- (nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
- (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
- (politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
- (Australia, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
- (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
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- first in rank or degree
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- used of the first or originating agent
- being at the best stage of development
- of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers
- of superior grade
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- (algebra, of a nonzero module) Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
- (algebra, of an ideal) Having its complement closed under multiplication.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
- (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
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- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
- the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.
- the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest
- (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
- (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (psychology) A stimulus which causes priming.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- (backgammon) A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.
- (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
- (film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
- (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
- (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
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- fill with priming liquid
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing
- (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
- (transitive) To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- (intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
- (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- To prepare; to make ready.
- (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
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- One who goes first.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- One having authority to direct.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
adj
- first and most important
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- separate and distinct from others of the same group or category
- providing specific details or circumstances
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- exacting especially about details
- Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
- Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
- (law) Containing a part only; limited.
- Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
- (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
- (law) Holding a particular estate.
- (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
- Specific; discrete; concrete.
noun
- a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class
- (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)
- A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
adj
- first and most important
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose
- for a special service or occasion
- having a specific function or scope
- added to a regular schedule
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- (by extension, derogatory, often offensive, comparable) Stupid, lacking intelligence.
- (euphemistic, not comparable) Of or related to disabilities, especially learning or intellectual disabilities.
- (military) Of or related to unconventional warfare.
- Of particular value or interest; dear; beloved.
- Distinguished by a unique, particular, or unusual quality.
- Infused with a drug, especially marijuana; being an edible.
- Constituting or relating to a species.
- Of, being, or pertaining to sexual intercourse or the genitals.
- (law) Appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.
noun
- a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising
- a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant
- a television production that features a particular person or work or topic
- (journalism) A journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
- A racehorse predicted to win; a sure thing.
- (broadcasting) Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
- A meal offered only at a certain time by a restaurant, not as a standing fixture of the menu; often, one of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price; also often a dish at a nondiscounted price that is seasonal or otherwise exciting or unusual.
- Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
- (pinball) An award, typically a free game, that is made available to the player upon reaching or completing a major objective in a pinball game.
- (British, colloquial) A special constable.
- (journalism) A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
- A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered; the thing thus sold.
- Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
- One of certain mixed-breed dogs.
- (theater) A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
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- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
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- First in order or sequence.
- Anterior: the frontal part of a body.
- Outer: the leading, outward portion of a wave or effort; or a distal part of a body.
- Outward in spatial direction.
- Greater in rank, superior
- (nautical) The fore of a ship.
- Previous or earlier in order or sequence.
- Nearest: the part of the root which is nearest/closest.
- Positioned at or near the front.
- The early stage of the root time period
- Alternative form of for-: outside, out.
- Forward in temporal direction, anticipating.
- Directly or immediately preceding in time.
- Before: the root is happening earlier in time.
- Prominent, most important, foremost or greatest in rank
- Ancestor, ancestral
- Forward in spatial direction.
- Used to indicate error, exclusion, or inadequacy; Alternative form of for-.
- Forepart: the front part of an object or area.
- Near, close to, adjacent in position.
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- (biology) Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium.
- Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed); because it is stable, or radioactive but so long-lived that some is left over from when the Earth was formed. For example, primordial radioisotopes (T = half-life in years) include uranium-235 (T = 7×10⁸), potassium-40 (T = 1.25×10⁹), uranium-238 (T = 4.5×10⁹), and thorium-232 (T = 1.4×10¹⁰).
- Primeval.
- First, earliest or original.
- having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
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- Abbreviation of Congo (Federal Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- (New York City) Ellipsis of FDR Drive.
- (US politics) Initialism of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32ⁿᵈ US president.
- Abbreviation of Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)
- Abbreviation of Nepal (Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal)
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- (ordinal number) First in order; which stage is first.
- (anatomy) Anterior.
- An early, primitive stage of development.
- (linguistics, genetics) Most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of.
- Primary.
- (inorganic chemistry) A minimal proportion of a particular substance when in a combination. See protosalt.
- Original, older.
- (chemistry) Relating to protons and/or positive charge.
noun
- (education) Initialism of classwork.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of continuous wave.
- Abbreviation of civil war
- Initialism of conventional wisdom.
- (music) Initialism of country and western.
- Initialism of calendar week.
- Initialism of chemical warfare.
- Initialism of content warning.
- Initialism of current weight.
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- As the first in a number of examples or reasons.
- As a single given example, often the most obvious or important one and almost certainly enough to sway the argument, of several reasons for something.
- As one person among other people who may not hold the same opinion.
- as a particular one of several possibilities
noun
- the first part or section of something
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the act of starting something
- the event consisting of the start of something
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
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- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Exhibiting timeless quality and excellence.
- Characteristic of or from the past; old; retro; vintage.
- Traditional; original.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- Exemplary of a particular style; defining a class or category; typical; archetypical; epitomic.
- considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth
- of a well-known type; remarkably typical
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
noun
- A perfect and/or early example of a particular style.
- A major, long-standing sporting event.
- The author of such a work.
- (horse racing) Any of the British Classic Races, five long-standing Group 1 horse races run during the traditional flat racing season.
- An artistic work of lasting worth, such as a film or song; a work of enduring excellence.
- an artist who has created classic works
- a creation of the highest excellence
adj
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
- of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas
- of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
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- Beginning, initial.
- Etching or engraving.
- Located or positioned at a tip or tips of an object or body.
- Heights, high in location.
- The peak of a wave or cycle; accented.
- Located or positioned at the top; uppermost.
- High in altitude, montane.
- Upper.
- Acrobatics.
- Pointed in shape.
- The extremities: limbs, head, fingers, toes, etc.
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- (education) Initialism of preliminary examination.
- (business) Initialism of professional engineer.
- (business, law) Initialism of permanent establishment.
- (electronics) Initialism of protective earthing.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyethylene.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyether.
- (medicine) Initialism of pulmonary embolism.
- (finance) Initialism of private equity.
- (medicine) Initialism of premature ejaculation.
- (education) Initialism of physical education.
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- (software) Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).
- (software) Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.
- Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.
- Initialism of Port Elizabeth: a city in South Africa.
- Abbreviation of Highland Papua: a province of Indonesia.
- (software) Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).
- Abbreviation of Pernambuco: a state of Brazil.
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- The first year of grade school.
- (aviation) 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.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) 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.
- A primary colour.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- A primary school.
- 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
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
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- First or earliest in a group or series.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
verb
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) 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.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
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- One who goes first.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- One having authority to direct.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
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- (biology) Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium.
- Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed); because it is stable, or radioactive but so long-lived that some is left over from when the Earth was formed. For example, primordial radioisotopes (T = half-life in years) include uranium-235 (T = 7×10⁸), potassium-40 (T = 1.25×10⁹), uranium-238 (T = 4.5×10⁹), and thorium-232 (T = 1.4×10¹⁰).
- Primeval.
- First, earliest or original.
- having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
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- Abbreviation of Congo (Federal Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- (New York City) Ellipsis of FDR Drive.
- (US politics) Initialism of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32ⁿᵈ US president.
- Abbreviation of Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)
- Abbreviation of Nepal (Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal)
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- (education) Initialism of classwork.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of continuous wave.
- Abbreviation of civil war
- Initialism of conventional wisdom.
- (music) Initialism of country and western.
- Initialism of calendar week.
- Initialism of chemical warfare.
- Initialism of content warning.
- Initialism of current weight.
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- the first part or section of something
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the act of starting something
- the event consisting of the start of something
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
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- (education) Initialism of preliminary examination.
- (business) Initialism of professional engineer.
- (business, law) Initialism of permanent establishment.
- (electronics) Initialism of protective earthing.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyethylene.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyether.
- (medicine) Initialism of pulmonary embolism.
- (finance) Initialism of private equity.
- (medicine) Initialism of premature ejaculation.
- (education) Initialism of physical education.
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- (software) Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).
- (software) Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.
- Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.
- Initialism of Port Elizabeth: a city in South Africa.
- Abbreviation of Highland Papua: a province of Indonesia.
- (software) Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).
- Abbreviation of Pernambuco: a state of Brazil.
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- As the first in a number of examples or reasons.
- As a single given example, often the most obvious or important one and almost certainly enough to sway the argument, of several reasons for something.
- As one person among other people who may not hold the same opinion.
- as a particular one of several possibilities
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- a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
- the first of a series of actions
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
- the initial part of the introduction
- an open or empty space in or between things
- opportunity especially for employment or promotion
- a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
- a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise
- becoming open or being made open
- a possible alternative
- the first performance (as of a theatrical production)
- the act of opening something
- An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
- The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
- An act or instance of beginning.
- (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.
- A vacant position, especially in an array.
- The first few measures of a musical composition.
- An unoccupied employment position.
- A gap permitting passage through.
- The first few moves in a game.
- An act or instance of making or becoming open.
- The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
- A time available in a schedule.
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- Ranking first.
- Providing guidance or direction.
- Occurring in advance; preceding.
- greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
- having the leading position or higher score in a contest
- indicating the most important performer or role
- going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way
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- first in order of importance
- Designates the first in an order of precedence.
- early testing stage of a software or hardware product
- Clipping of alphabetical.
- (of person, object or action) Exhibiting characteristics of the alpha male/female archetype.
- (astronomy) Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation.
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- the beginning of a series or sequence
- the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet
- (computer graphics) Ellipsis of alpha layer.
- (software engineering) The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.
- Alternative letter-case form of Alpha (“member of Generation Alpha”).
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a dominant secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an omega, with males of this type often having canine-like genitalia.
- (statistics) The significance level of a statistical test; the alpha level.
- A person, especially a male, who is dominant, successful and attractive; (see alpha male).
- The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
- (aviation) An angle of attack.
- (informal) Clipping of alphabet.
- (finance) The return of a given asset or portfolio adjusted for systematic risk.
- (sciences) The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix.
- Latin alpha: the Latin letter Ɑ (minuscule: ɑ).
- (computer graphics) The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the alpha channel.
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- the person who is head of government (in several countries)
- the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
- (nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
- (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
- (politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
- (Australia, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
- (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
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- first in rank or degree
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- used of the first or originating agent
- being at the best stage of development
- of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers
- of superior grade
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- (algebra, of a nonzero module) Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
- (algebra, of an ideal) Having its complement closed under multiplication.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
- (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
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- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
- the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.
- the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest
- (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
- (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (psychology) A stimulus which causes priming.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- (backgammon) A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.
- (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
- (film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
- (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
- (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
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- fill with priming liquid
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing
- (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
- (transitive) To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- (intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
- (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- To prepare; to make ready.
- (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
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- first and most important
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- separate and distinct from others of the same group or category
- providing specific details or circumstances
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- exacting especially about details
- Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
- Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
- (law) Containing a part only; limited.
- Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
- (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
- (law) Holding a particular estate.
- (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
- Specific; discrete; concrete.
noun
- a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class
- (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)
- A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
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- first and most important
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose
- for a special service or occasion
- having a specific function or scope
- added to a regular schedule
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category
- (by extension, derogatory, often offensive, comparable) Stupid, lacking intelligence.
- (euphemistic, not comparable) Of or related to disabilities, especially learning or intellectual disabilities.
- (military) Of or related to unconventional warfare.
- Of particular value or interest; dear; beloved.
- Distinguished by a unique, particular, or unusual quality.
- Infused with a drug, especially marijuana; being an edible.
- Constituting or relating to a species.
- Of, being, or pertaining to sexual intercourse or the genitals.
- (law) Appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.
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- a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising
- a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant
- a television production that features a particular person or work or topic
- (journalism) A journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
- A racehorse predicted to win; a sure thing.
- (broadcasting) Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
- A meal offered only at a certain time by a restaurant, not as a standing fixture of the menu; often, one of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price; also often a dish at a nondiscounted price that is seasonal or otherwise exciting or unusual.
- Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
- (pinball) An award, typically a free game, that is made available to the player upon reaching or completing a major objective in a pinball game.
- (British, colloquial) A special constable.
- (journalism) A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
- A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered; the thing thus sold.
- Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
- One of certain mixed-breed dogs.
- (theater) A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
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- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
noun
- The first year of grade school.
- (aviation) 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.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) 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.
- A primary colour.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- A primary school.
- 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
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
adj
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
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- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) 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.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
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- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Exhibiting timeless quality and excellence.
- Characteristic of or from the past; old; retro; vintage.
- Traditional; original.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- Exemplary of a particular style; defining a class or category; typical; archetypical; epitomic.
- considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth
- of a well-known type; remarkably typical
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
noun
- A perfect and/or early example of a particular style.
- A major, long-standing sporting event.
- The author of such a work.
- (horse racing) Any of the British Classic Races, five long-standing Group 1 horse races run during the traditional flat racing season.
- An artistic work of lasting worth, such as a film or song; a work of enduring excellence.
- an artist who has created classic works
- a creation of the highest excellence
adj
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
- of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas
- of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.