Primary vs. Secondary
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.
Secondaryadjective
Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
Secondaryadjective
Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
Secondaryadjective
(organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
Secondaryadjective
(geology) produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass
Secondaryadjective
(geology) developed by pressure or other causes.
Secondaryadjective
(anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
Secondaryadjective
(medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
Secondaryadjective
Of less than primary importance.
Secondaryadjective
(education) related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of 11 and 18
Secondaryadjective
(industry) relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
Secondaryadjective
(of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
Secondarynoun
(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
Secondarynoun
(finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
Secondarynoun
The defensive backs.
Secondarynoun
(electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar
Secondarynoun
One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
Secondarynoun
(astronomy) A secondary circle.
Secondarynoun
(astronomy) A satellite.
Secondarynoun
(education) A secondary school.
Secondarynoun
Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
Secondaryadjective
Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
Secondaryadjective
Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
Secondaryadjective
Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.
Secondaryadjective
Subsequent in origin; - said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
Secondaryadjective
Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
Secondaryadjective
Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
Secondarynoun
One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.
Secondarynoun
A secondary circle.
Secondarynoun
A secondary quill.
Secondarynoun
the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
Secondarynoun
coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
Secondaryadjective
of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate;
Secondaryadjective
inferior in rank or status;
Secondaryadjective
depending on or incidental to what is original or primary;
Secondaryadjective
not of major importance;
Secondaryadjective
belonging to a lower class or rank
