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UK
/pɹˈaɪm/
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[ US /ˈpɹaɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹaɪm/ ]
NOUN
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.
- the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest
- a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers
prime number -
used of the first or originating agent
prime mover -
of superior grade
prime beef
prize carnations
quality paper
choice wines
select peaches -
first in rank or degree
an architect of premier rank
the prime minister -
being at the best stage of development
our manhood's prime vigor
VERB
-
fill with priming liquid
prime a car engine -
insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing
prime a mine
prime a cannon - cover with a primer; apply a primer to
How To Use prime In A Sentence
- ` ` And come playoff time, you're in prime time, so you're going to have a little more focus, a little more energy, and your rhythm is there. USATODAY.com - Basketball - Dallas vs. Golden State
- In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
- We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
- Her majesty awarded a distinction upon 〔 to 〕 the retiring Prime Minister.
- I intend to take it, subject of course to your approval and, as the prime minister designate, with your permission. TANK OF SERPENTS
- Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister in 1979.
- It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
- Although nationally distributed boxes do not change fronts often, the regional ones do, making them a prime target for collectors.
- There is growing anticipation that the prime minister will have to resign.
- Huge plantations of tea, coffee, and cardamom have emerged and taken over what was once prime elephant habitat.