Primary vs. Principal
Primaryadjective
The first in a group or series.
Primaryadjective
Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
Primaryadjective
(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
Primaryadjective
(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
Primaryadjective
(medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
Primaryadjective
(medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Primarynoun
A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
Primarynoun
The first year of grade school.
Primarynoun
A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
Primarynoun
The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
Primarynoun
A primary school.
Primarynoun
(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
Primarynoun
A primary colour.
Primarynoun
(medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
Primarynoun
(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
Primaryverb
To knock out an incumbent in the primary election, typically used referring to a non-incumbent challenger.
Primaryverb
To take part in a primary election.
Primaryverb
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
Primaryadjective
First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
Primaryadjective
First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
Primaryadjective
First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
Primaryadjective
Earliest formed; fundamental.
Primaryadjective
Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
Primarynoun
That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
Primarynoun
A primary meeting; a caucus.
Primarynoun
One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.
Primarynoun
A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.
Primarynoun
a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
Primarynoun
one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
Primarynoun
coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit;
Primaryadjective
of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand;
Primaryadjective
not derived from or reducible to something else; basic;
Primaryadjective
most important element;
Primaryadjective
of or being the essential or basic part;
Primaryadjective
of primary importance;
Primaryadjective
of chief importance; principal
Primaryadjective
earliest in time or order
Primaryadjective
not derived from, caused by, or based on anything else; original
Primaryadjective
belonging to or directly derived from the first stage of development or growth
Primaryadjective
relating to or denoting education for children between the ages of about five and eleven
Primaryadjective
former term for Palaeozoic
Primaryadjective
relating to or denoting the input side of a transformer or other inductive device.
Primaryadjective
(of an organic compound) having its functional group located on a carbon atom which is bonded to no more than one other carbon atom
Primaryadjective
(chiefly of amines) derived from ammonia by replacement of one hydrogen atom by an organic group.
Primarynoun
(in the US) a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election
Primarynoun
a primary colour.
Primarynoun
a primary feather.
Primarynoun
the body orbited by a smaller satellite or companion.
Primarynoun
a primary coil or winding in an electrical transformer.
Primarynoun
the Palaeozoic era.
Principaladjective
Primary; most important.
Principaladjective
Of or relating to a prince; princely.
Principalnoun
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
Principalnoun
The chief administrator of a school.
Principalnoun
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
Principalnoun
(legal) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
Principalnoun
(legal) The primary participant in a crime.
Principalnoun
(North America) A partner or owner of a business.
Principalnoun
(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
Principalnoun
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
Principalnoun
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
Principalnoun
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Principalnoun
(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
Principalnoun
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
Principalnoun
(computing) A security principal.
Principaladjective
Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.
Principaladjective
Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.
Principalnoun
A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; - distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.
Principalnoun
The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, - as distinguished from an accessory.
Principalnoun
A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
Principalnoun
the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
Principalnoun
the educator who has executive authority for a school;
Principalnoun
an actor who plays a principal role
Principalnoun
capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
Principalnoun
the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
Principaladjective
most important element;
Principaladjective
first in order of importance; main
Principaladjective
denoting an original sum invested or lent
Principalnoun
the most important or senior person in an organization or group
Principalnoun
the head of a school, college, or other educational institution
Principalnoun
the leading performer in a concert, play, ballet, or opera
Principalnoun
the leading player in each section of an orchestra
Principalnoun
(in certain professions) a fully qualified practitioner
Principalnoun
(in the UK) a senior civil servant in charge of a particular section.
Principalnoun
a sum of money lent or invested, on which interest is paid
Principalnoun
a person for whom another acts as an agent or representative
Principalnoun
the person directly responsible for a crime.
Principalnoun
each of the combatants in a duel.
Principalnoun
a main rafter supporting purlins.
Principalnoun
an organ stop sounding a main register of open flue pipes typically an octave above the diapason
