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1.AdjectiveFirst in importance, degree, or rank."Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe."
2.AdjectiveFirst in time, order, or sequence."Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals."
3.AdjectiveFirst in excellence, quality, or value."This is a prime location for a bookstore."
4.AdjectiveHaving exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers)."Thirteen is a prime number."
5.AdjectiveSuch that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
6.AdjectiveHaving its complement closed under multiplication.
7.AdjectiveSuch that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
8.AdjectiveMarked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
9.AdjectiveEarly; blooming; being in the first stage.
10.AdjectiveLecherous, lewd, lustful.
11.NounThe first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
12.NounThe religious service appointed to this hour.
13.NounThe early morning generally.
14.NounThe earliest stage of something.
15.NounThe most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
16.NounThe chief or best individual or part.
17.NounSomething which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
18.NounThe first note or tone of a musical scale.
19.NounThe first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
20.NounA prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number."3 is a prime."
21.NounA four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
22.NounA series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing."I'm threatening to build a prime here."
23.NounThe symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
24.NounAny 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.
25.NounAn inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
26.NounThe priming in a flintlock.
27.NounContraction of prime lens, a film lens.
28.NounA feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
29.NounA stimulus which causes priming.
30.VerbTo 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."
31.VerbTo apply a coat of primer paint to."I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat."
32.VerbTo be renewed.
33.VerbTo serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
34.VerbTo 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.
35.VerbTo apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
36.VerbTo prepare; to make ready."The boys are primed for mischief."
37.VerbTo instruct beforehand, as for an examination; to coach."to prime a witness"
38.VerbTo trim or prune."to prime trees"
39.VerbTo mark with a prime mark.
40.NounAn intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.