Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A knitting needle.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.