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Secondary vs Epistle - What's the difference?

secondary | epistle |

As nouns the difference between secondary and epistle

is that secondary is while epistle is a letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.

As a adjective secondary

is succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

As a verb epistle is

(obsolete) to write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

secondary

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
  • Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
  • Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Compare primary.
  • (geology) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
  • (zootomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
  • (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever; or occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
  • Of less than primary importance.
  • *
  • (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
  • Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.

    Coordinate terms

    (terms coordinate to secondary) * primary (1) * tertiary (3) * quaternary (4) * quinary (5) * senary (6) * septenary (7) * octonary (8) * nonary (9) * denary (10) * duodenary (12) * vigenary (20)

    Noun

    (secondaries)
  • (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
  • (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
  • (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
  • (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar
  • One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
  • the secondary , or undersheriff, of the city of London
  • * Shakespeare
  • Old Escalus is thy secondary .
  • (astronomy) A secondary circle.
  • (astronomy) A satellite.
  • (Webster 1913)

    epistle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.
  • * 1748 — (David Hume), , Section III, § 5.
  • he may be hurried from this plan by the vehemence of thought, as in an ode, or drop it carlessly, as in an epistle or essay
  • (Christianity) One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.
  • * 1956 — Werner Keller (translated by William Neil), The Bible as History , revised English edition, Chapter 41, page 358
  • Even last century scholars had begun to search for the cities in Asia Minor whose names have become so familiar to the Chistian world through the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of St. Paul.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (epistl)
  • (obsolete) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
  • (Milton)