First vs Cardinal - What's the difference?
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Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
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, title= Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
* 1784 : William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. ,
Before anything else; firstly.
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, title= (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
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(uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
(countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
(countable, baseball) first base
(countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
(countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
A fraction of an integer ending in one.
Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
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* Sir Thomas Browne
* Drayton
(nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
A number indicating quantity, or the size of a set, e.g., one, two, three.
*1920 , (Bertrand Russell), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy , p.83:
*:This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals'. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite ' cardinals is .
(lb) A word used to represent a cardinal number; a cardinal numeral.
*2005 , , (w, Wheelock's Latin) , 6th ed. revised, p.97:
*:The commonest numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals ".
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, chapter=16, title= A genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis .
Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See ) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
A shade of scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock.
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A woman's short cloak with a hood.
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*:Where's your cardinal ! Make haste.
Mulled red wine.
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First is a related term of cardinal.
As nouns the difference between first and cardinal
is that first is ridge (of roof) while cardinal is (baseball) a player on the st louis cardinals team.first
English
(wikipedia first)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* firste (archaic) * fyrst (obsolete) * fyrste (obsolete)Adjective
(-)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
Alternative forms
* ; (in names of monarchs and popes) IAdverb
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}
Noun
Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
Derived terms
* feet first * firstborn * first-class * first gear * first imperative (Latin grammar) * first of all * first place * first things first * first upSee also
* primaryEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . See also (l).Statistics
*cardinal
English
(wikipedia cardinal)Adjective
(en adjective)- a cardinal rule
- But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
- the cardinal intersections of the zodiac
- Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
- a cardinal mark
Noun
(en noun)Friday's Business, passage=His uncle, a Cardinal , engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart,