primaryとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪməɹi/
• (米国発音) enPR: prīʹmĕr-ē, IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪmɛɹi/ or enPR: prīʹmə-rē, IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪməɹi/

形容詞

primary (comparative more primary, superlative most primary)

1. The first in a group or series.

   Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.

   • Bishop Pearson

     the church of Christ, in its primary institution

   • John Locke

     These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.

2. Main; principal; placed ahead of others.

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

3. (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
4. (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
5. (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
6. (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.

派生語

参考

• first
• primus inter pares

名詞

primary (複数形 primaries)

1. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
2. The first year of grade school.
3. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
4. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
5. A primary school.
   • 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement

     Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

6. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
7. A primary colour.
   • 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook

     By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.

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

動詞

primary (三人称単数 現在形 primaries, 現在分詞 primarying, 過去形および過去分詞形 primaried)

1. (US, intransitive) To take part in a primary election.
2. (US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election

Further reading

• primary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• primary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911