Meanings (ES + gloss)
primario • primordial • principal
First in importance, degree, or rank.
Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
primero
First in time, order, or sequence.
Better to clear prime forests, heave and thump / A league of street in summer solstice down, / Than hammer at this reverend gentlewoman.
Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
excelente • primo • primoroso
First in excellence, quality, or value.
Gemmen (says he), you all well know / The joy there is whene'er we meet; / It's what I call the primest go, / And rightly named, 'tis—'quite a treat,' […]
This is a prime location for a bookstore.
primo
Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
Thirteen is a prime number.
Phrases
almost primebook of prime entryco-primeessential prime implicantin prime twiginterprimemegaprimenon-essential prime implicantnonprimeprime constellationprime contractprime contractorprime costprime cutprime decompositionprime directiveprime factorprime factorisationprime factorizationprime fieldprime formprime formulaprime gapprime idealprime implicantprime meridianprime ministerprime ministerialprime ministershipprime ministryprime moverprime numberprime number theoremprime rateprime reciprocal magic squareprime ribprime ringprime subringprime suspectprime time
Meanings (ES + gloss)
primordio
The earliest stage of something.
1645, Edmund Waller, “To a very young Lady” (earlier title: “To my young Lady Lucy Sidney”) in Poems, &c. Written upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons, London: H. Herring…
To this end we see how quickly sundry artes Mechanical were found out in the very prime of the world.
cresta de la ola • culmen • fastigio • mejor momento
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
Short were her Marriage-Joys; for in the Prime, / Of Youth, her Lord expir’d before his time: […]
When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver’d o'er with white;
Phrases
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 12747
prime
/pɹaɪ̯m/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
emprimar • imprimar
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
cebar
To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
aparejar • aprestar • cebar • emprimar • imprimar
To prepare; to make ready.
The boys are primed for mischief.
“He’s priming himself,” Osborne whispered to Dobbin, and at length the hour and the carriage arrived for Vauxhall.