primary vs reserve

primary

noun
  • A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary 

  • A primary school. 

  • A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party. 

  • A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder. 

  • Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird. 

  • A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible. 

  • The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites. 

  • The first year of grade school. 

  • A primary colour. 

  • Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease. 

  • The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage. 

verb
  • To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme. 

  • To take part in a primary election. 

adj
  • Earliest formed; fundamental. 

  • first or earliest in a group or series. 

  • main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others. 

  • Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc. 

  • Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur. 

  • Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement. 

reserve

verb
  • To keep back; to retain. 

  • To book in advance; to make a reservation. 

  • To keep in store for future or special use. 

noun
  • A reserve price in an auction. 

  • Wine held back and aged before being sold. 

  • A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. 

  • Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain. 

  • The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception. 

  • A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose 

  • A resist. 

  • Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. 

  • A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit. 

  • In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified. 

  • A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates. 

  • A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.) 

  • Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements. 

  • A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play. 

  • A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited. 

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