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Primes
/pɹaɪmz/
The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
📖 Definitions of "Primes"
- 1
The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- 2
The religious service appointed to this hour.
- 3
The early morning generally.
- 4
The earliest stage of something.
- 1
To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
"You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump."
- 2
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
"I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat."
- 3
To be renewed.
- 4
To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- 1
An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Primes"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| premiernoun | (politics, UK, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet. |
| firstnoun | (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position. |
| heydaynoun | A period of success, popularity, or power; prime. |
| qualitynoun | (uncountable) Level of excellence. |
| superiornoun | A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position. |
| prime of lifenoun | (idiomatic) The period of one's mature life when one is at a peak of health and performance. |
| finenoun | Fine champagne; French brandy. |
| choicenoun | An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. |
| selectnoun | A button (of a joystick, joypad or similar device) that, when pressed, activates any of certain predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items. |
| peaknoun | The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. |
| matureverb | Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. |
| prizenoun | An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort. |
| groundnoun | The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. |
| efflorescencenoun | (botany) The production of flowers. |
| undercoatnoun | A layer of short hairs underneath the longer ones of an animal's fur. |
| bloomnoun | (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. |
| blossomnoun | A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers. |
| flowernoun | A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction. |
| flushnoun | A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc. |
| prime quantitynoun | a number that has no factor but itself and 1 |
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