prime

aggettivo

1. 1

   First in importance, degree, or rank.

   Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.

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   First in time, order, or sequence.

   Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.

   I thought it lawful from my forme act, / And the ſame end ; ſtill watching to oppreſs / Iſrael’s oppreſſours : of what now I ſuffer / She was not the prime cauſe, but I my ſelf, / Who vanquiſht with a peal of words (O weakneſs !) / Gave up my fort of ſilence to a Woman.

   Better to clear prime forests, heave and thump / A league of street in summer solstice down, / Than hammer at this reverend gentlewoman.

   The process of recording a transaction in the accounts begins with an entry in what is termed a book of prime entry.

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   First in excellence, quality, or value.

   This is a prime location for a bookstore.

   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,' […]

   "Is it very pleasant to be there, Bob?" / "Prime," said the turnkey.

   Average cost, 10d. to 18. per lb. for the primest parts.

4. 4

   Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).

   Thirteen is a prime number.

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   Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.

6. 6

   Having its complement closed under multiplication.

7. 7

   Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.

8. 8

   Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.

9. 9

   Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

   [...] His ſtarrie Helme unbuckl’d ſhew’d him prime / In Manhood where Youth ended ; by his ſide / As in a glittering Zodiac hung the Sword, / Satans dire dread, and in his hand the Spear.

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    obsoletoLecherous, lewd, lustful.

    It is impoſſible you ſhould ſee this, / Were they as prime as Goates, as hot as Monkies, / As ſalt as Wolues, in pride; and fooles as groſſe / As ignorance made drunke: [...]

sostantivo

1. 1

   storicoThe first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.

   His larum bell might lowd and wyde be hard, When cause requyrd, but neuer out of time; Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.

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   The religious service appointed to this hour.

3. 3

   obsoletoThe early morning generally.

   They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Pryme […]

4. 4

   arcaicoThe earliest stage of something.

   To this end we see how quickly sundry artes Mechanical were found out in the very prime of the world.

   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. Herringman, 1686, p. 101, Hope waits upon the flowry prime,

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   The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

   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;

   Short were her Marriage-Joys; for in the Prime, / Of Youth, her Lord expir’d before his time: […]

   None but foreigners, excluded by their religion from the cemeteries of the country, are deposited here […]. The far greater part had been cut off in their prime, by unexpected disease or fatal accident.

   Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?

6. 6

   The chief or best individual or part.

   Give him always of the prime; And but a little at a time.

7. 7

   Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.

   I found just as we were fearful we would find that many of the big primes felt that this was a change of policy on the part of the U.S. Government to let the big fellows take care of it, and they were ready to cut back, and in many instances were cutting back[…]

   The large primes are struggling to do things the way Anduril does, because they're publicly traded companies with an existing investor class that invested in them to be a certain type of company.

8. 8

   The first note or tone of a musical scale.

9. 9

   The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

10. 10

    A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.

    Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

    3 is a prime.

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    A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.

12. 12

    A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.

    I'm threatening to build a prime here.

13. 13

    The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.

14. 14

    obsoletoAny number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.

15. 15

    An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.

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    obsoletoThe priming in a flintlock.

    […] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say […]

17. 17

    A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.

18. 18

    A stimulus which causes priming.

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    Variante di prime lensContraction of prime lens, a film lens.

    Tomlinson, Shawn M. (2015), Going Pro for $200 & How to Choose a Prime Lens, →ISBN, page 72: “By the time I shifted to my first autofocus film SLR with the Pentax PZ-10, primes were considered things of the past”

verbo

1. 1

   To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.

   You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.

2. 2

   To apply a coat of primer paint to.

   I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.

3. 3

   obsoletoTo be renewed.

   Nights baſhfull Empreſſe, though ſhe often wayne, / As oft repents her darkneſſe ; primes againe ; / And with her circling Hornes does re-embrace / Her brothers wealth, and orbs her ſilver face.

4. 4

   To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

5. 5

   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.

   Although we took our eight bogies along to Whitstable at 60 m.p.h., and made a clean start from there, after Herne Bay the engine primed badly on Blacksole Bank and nearly stopped before we got over the top. Then we ran like the wind across the marshes with half-regulator, 30 per cent cut-off, and the engine blowing off.

6. 6

   To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   arcaicoTo instruct beforehand, as for an examination; to coach.

   to prime a witness

9. 9

   obsoletoTo trim or prune.

   to prime trees

10. 10

    To mark with a prime mark.

sostantivo

1. 1

   An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

   Most primes are won with gaps on the field; most sprints are in bunches.

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