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primepra?m(adj.; n.; v.)primed, prim•ing.
(adj.)of the first importance:
a prime requisite.
of the greatest relevance or significance:
a prime example.
of the highest eminence or rank:
a prime authority on Chaucer.
of the greatest commercial value:
prime building lots.
first-rate.
(of meat) of the highest grade or best quality:
prime ribs of beef.
Category: Cooking
first in order of time, existence, or development.
basic; fundamental:
a prime axiom.
(of any two or more numbers) having no common divisor except unity:
The number 2 is prime to 9.
Category: Math
(n.)the most flourishing stage or state.
the time of early manhood or womanhood:
the prime of youth.
Category: Developmental Biology
the period of greatest vigor of human life:
a man in his prime.
the choicest or best part of anything.
the earliest stage of any period.
the spring of the year.
the hour following sunrise.
Category: Banking, Business
Ref: PRIME RATE.
the second of the seven canonical hours or the service for it, orig. fixed for the first hour of the day.
Category: Religion
Math. one of the equal parts into which a unit is primarily divided. the mark (~) indicating such a division:
a, a~.
Category: Math
Ref: PRIME NUMBER.
Music. (in a scale) the tonic or keynote.
Category: Music and Dance
any basic, indivisible unit used in linguistic analysis.
Category: Language/Linguistics
(v.t.)to prepare for a particular purpose or operation.
to supply (a firearm) with powder for igniting a charge.
to pour or admit liquid into (a pump) to expel air and prepare for action.
Category: Hydraulogy
to put fuel into (a carburetor) before starting an engine, in order to insure a sufficiently rich mixture at the start.
Category: Automotive
to cover (a surface) with an undercoat of paint or the like.
to supply with needed information, facts, etc.
(v.i.)to harvest the bottom leaves from a tobacco plant.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Idioms for prime:

prime the pump, to increase government expenditure in an effort to stimulate the economy. to support or promote the operation or improvement of something.
Category: Idiom
Origin of prime:

bef. 1000; (adj.) ME (< OF prim) < L pr?musFIRST (superl. corresponding to priorPRIOR1); (n.) in part der. of the adj., in part continuing ME prim(e) first canonical hour, OE prim < L pr?ma(h?ra) first (hour)