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prime

1 of 3

noun

ˈprīm How to pronounce prime (audio)
1
a
often capitalized : the second of the canonical hours
b
: the first hour of the day usually considered either as 6 a.m. or the hour of sunrise
2
a
: the earliest stage
b
: spring
c
: youth
3
: the most active, thriving, or satisfying stage or period
in the prime of his life
4
: the chief or best individual or part : pick
prime of the flock, and choicest of the stall Alexander Pope
5
: prime number
6
a
: the first note or tone of a musical scale : tonic
b
: the interval between two notes on the same staff degree
7
: the symbol ′ used to distinguish arbitrary characters (such as a and a′), to indicate a specific unit (such as feet or minutes of time or angular measure), or to indicate the derivative of a function (such as p′ or f′(x)) compare double prime
8
: prime rate

prime

2 of 3

adjective

1
: first in time : original
2
a
: of, relating to, or being a prime number compare relatively prime
b
: having no polynomial factors other than itself and no monomial factors other than 1
a prime polynomial
c
: expressed as a product of prime factors (such as prime numbers and prime polynomials)
a prime factorization
3
a
: first in rank, authority, or significance : principal
a prime example
b
: having the highest quality or value
prime farmland
c
: of the highest grade regularly marketed
—used of meat and especially beef
4
: not deriving from something else : primary
primely adverb
primeness noun

prime

3 of 3

verb

primed; priming

transitive verb

1
: fill, load
2
a
: to prepare for firing by supplying with priming
b
: to insert a primer into (a cartridge case)
3
: to apply the first color, coating, or preparation to
prime a wall
4
a
: to put into working order by filling or charging with something
prime a pump with water
b
: to supply with an essential prerequisite (such as a hormone, nucleic acid, or antigen) for chemical or biological activity
primed female mice with estrogen
5
: to instruct beforehand : coach
primed the witness
6
: stimulate

intransitive verb

: to become prime
Phrases
prime the pump
: to take steps to encourage the growth or functioning of something

Synonyms

Noun

Adjective

Example Sentences

Noun young college graduates in the prime of life The interest rate is two percent plus prime. Adjective The wine industry is of prime importance to the California economy. The police have not yet named the prime suspect in the murder investigation. The house is expensive because it's in a prime location. Verb She was obviously primed for the questions at the press conference. Both teams are primed for battle and ready to play. We sanded and primed the woodwork before painting. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The Browns finished 8-9 and out of the playoffs despite star players such as Garrett, Denzel Ward and Nick Chubb being in the prime of their careers. cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022 All these musicians were in the prime of their careers, and each individual added something special to the album as a whole. Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Aug. 2022 At a service posted on the Sol Levinson and Bros. funeral home website Thursday, friends and family described Wolf as a quick learner, an unfailingly generous friend and a loving father struck down in the prime of his life. Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2022 Forcing more women in the prime of their lives out of the workforce with unplanned pregnancies is only going to exacerbate the problem. Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022 There are players who have no intention of playing 82 games in a season, and some are in the prime of their careers. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022 Many affected are diagnosed in the prime of their lives and at high points of their careers. Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 15 July 2022 Both are in the prime of their careers, both can create their own shots, hit the open 3, and defend. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2022 In one concerning signal, the share of people in the prime of their careers — from 25 to 54 years old — who are either working or looking for work dropped in June to 82.3 percent from 82.6 percent, well below the prepandemic high of 83.1 percent. Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 8 July 2022
Adjective
Seeing Spencer work out his savior complex through therapy is a prime example of that exploration of what young people go through. Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022 This is a prime example of what is wrong with the universal vouchers that were pushed in order to help people get out of failing public schools. Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022 Richards cites the Under Armour All-America Game in 2019 in which York made a record-setting 59-yard field goal as the prime example. Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022 Regardless, the plant is often cited by environmental advocates as a prime example of Maryland’s shortcomings in environmental enforcement. Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2022 Alicent is a prime example of the norm for royal ladies in this version of Westeros. Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022 Silja Pieh, head of strategy at luxury car maker Audi AG, said recently, citing glass as a prime example. William Boston, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022 Brodie King, Garner said, is a prime example of a team player who contributed to the end of the losing streak. al, 24 Aug. 2022 But in a year when Democrats were supposed to get drubbed across the country in the midterms, Hassan is a prime example of a surprisingly positive turnaround for her party in Senate races. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
Verb
She was randomized to also receive 11 months of four therapies meant to prime the immune system to better fight the virus, according to Núria Climent, a biologist at the University of Barcelona Hospital Clinic, who presented the findings. Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 27 July 2022 Here’s the rundown of national stats to prime the pump for Alabama-Tennessee week. Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al, 17 Oct. 2021 The goal was to prime their bodies to last as long as possible before giving out. Nicole Kagan, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022 But some experts say that targets should show a greater mix of race, gender and age, so as not to reinforce stereotypes or prime the mind to see particular groups as a threat. New York Times, 31 July 2022 Unger’s note is one of three — three! — introductory sections to this Penguin Classics translation, which is an obvious tell that some context and buildup were needed to prime the reader for this seminal work of the Latin American dictator genre. Manuel Roig-franzia, Washington Post, 14 July 2022 The Jumbotrons played an anti-plastics (but pro-Samsung) environmental P.S.A. starring BTS and an assortment of the band’s music videos to prime the crowd. E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022 Previously, much of her laboratory’s work had looked at how the portion of the body’s defenses called the innate immune system detects viruses and how that helps to prime the immune responses in mucous membranes. Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2022 Southern California is facing a potentially treacherous wildfire season this year, as climate change, drought and extreme heat conspire to bake vegetation and prime the landscape for burning, officials say. Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, going back to Old English prīm, borrowed from Medieval Latin prīma (short for Latin prīma hōra "first hour"), from feminine of Latin prīmus "first, earliest"; in senses other than sense 1 borrowed in part from Latin prīmum "first part, beginning stages" (in plural prīma) or prīmus "notable person, leading citizen," noun derivatives of prīmus, adjective — more at prime entry 2

Adjective

Middle English, "first, original, in an initial stage," borrowed from Anglo-French, originally feminine of prim "first, earliest, original, main, most important," going back to Latin prīmus "first" (ordinal corresponding to ūnus "one, foremost, earliest, of first importance, of the highest quality,") going back to earlier *prīsmos, syncopated from *prīsomos, from dialectal Indo-European *pri "in front, before" + *-is-m̥mo-, superlative suffix (from *-is-, comparative suffix + *-m̥mo-, superlative suffix) — more at prior entry 2

Note: The combined comparative-superlative suffix *-is-m̥mo- as a productive superlative suffix is peculiar to Italic and Celtic. The assumption that *-is-m̥mo- yields *-isomo- in Latin (rather than *-em- or *-am-) is based on Michael Weiss, Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin (Beech Stave Press, 2011), p. 105. (Weiss suggests as a prime example homō "man, human," from *ǵhm̥mō.)

Verb

of uncertain origin

Note: Possibly a derivative of prime entry 2, if priming something was taken to mean performing an essential preliminary stage. However, if early uses meaning simply "to load, fill" (earliest in Scots, in Gavin Douglas's translation of the Aeneid, 1513) are the original senses, the painting and weapons senses may be by secondary association with prime entry 2 and its etymons. Supporting the hypothesis of an original meaning "load" would be the apparent derivative primage "money paid by a shipper to a captain for care of the cargo," attested as English in 1476, and as Latin primagium as early as 1297. Compare in the same sense prime-gilt (earliest in Scots, 1576), alongside Middle High German primegelt, primgelt (1468) and Middle Dutch priemgelt (1460), with gelt "money." However, none of these words lead any closer to the origin of the English verb.

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Adjective

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1513, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of prime was before the 12th century

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