primary vs under

primary

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. 

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. 

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. 

under

adj
  • Insufficient or lacking in a particular respect. 

  • Lower; beneath something. 

  • Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated. 

  • In a state of subordination, submission or defeat. 

adv
  • Insufficiently. 

  • In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively. 

  • In or into an unconscious state. 

  • So as to pass beneath something. 

noun
  • The amount by which an actual total is less than the expected or required amount. 

prep
  • Using or adopting (a name, identity, etc.). 

  • Subordinate to; subject to the control of; in accordance with; in compliance with. 

  • Within the category, classification or heading of. 

  • Below the surface of. 

  • Less than. 

  • In the face of; in response to (some attacking force). 

  • In or at a lower level than; in the area covered or surmounted by. 

  • From one side of to the other, passing beneath. 

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