primary
/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/ adjective B2- First or earliest in a group or series. · Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.· , Book II, Chapter VIII These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- Earliest formed; fundamental. · Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
- Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
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Children start running and racing against each other early in primary school.
However, its primary directive was to ensure the wellbeing of its owner.
We must thoughtfully ask ourselves what intangible, human qualities we sacrifice when our primary mode of written expression becomes entirely standardized.
My primary focus remains the extraction and analysis of deep ice cores, which are essentially frozen archives of atmospheric history.
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