Primary; most important; first level in importance.
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
Prominent; conspicuous.
Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
Depicted in a leaping posture.
Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9
1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193
On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.