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French
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coqueter
, se guinder
, collet monté
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nombre premier
, prime
, amorcer
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Primed
- (imp. & p. p.) of Prime
Synonyms:
Fit, Set,
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• Prim
- (n.) The privet.
- (v. i.) To dress or act smartly.
- (a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
- (v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
Synonyms:
Dainty, Mincing, Priggish, Prudish, Puritanical, Square-toed, Victorian,
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• Prime
- (a.) Divisible by no number except itself or unity; as, 7 is a prime number.
- (a.) Having no common factor; -- used with to; as, 12 is prime to 25.
- (v. i.) To 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; -- said of a steam boiler.
- (n.) That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.
- (n.) The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.
- (#) Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna
- (a.) A prime number. See under Prime, a.
- (v. i.) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- (a.) First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.
- (a.) To trim or prune, as trees.
- (a.) First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
- (a.) An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by []. See 2d Inch, n., 1.
- (a.) To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.
- (a.) First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.
- (a.) To mark with a prime mark.
- (a.) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
- (v. i.) To be renewed, or as at first.
- (a.) The first of the chief guards.
- (n.) The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.
- (a.) To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.
- (a.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.
- (a.) Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- (a.) Marked or distinguished by a mark () called a prime mark.
- (a.) Any 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.
- (a.) To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
Synonyms:
Bloom, Blossom, Choice, Efflorescence, Flower, Flush, Ground, Heyday, Peak, Premier, Prize, Quality, Select, Undercoat,
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cannibalism, patty, allah, steppe, apostrophe, landlocked, collate, glowering, ditto, denim, kinematics, duple, juridically, hooker, tattoo, severe, preamble, matriculation, polemical, volition, hundred, islamism, miraculous, playboy, fallacious, bop, cleavage, niche, flag, ale, linkage, camp, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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