Import vs Primage - What's the difference?
import | primage |
(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
(uncountable) The practice of importing.
(uncountable) Significance, importance.
To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
* 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:
To be of importance to (someone or something).
* 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :
* Dryden
To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
* 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :
To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
* 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":
To mean, signify.
* Hooker
(archaic) To express, to imply.
(archaic) A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
* 1818 , , The Political State of the British Empire , Volume 3,
(archaic, UK) An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne) .
(Australia, New Zealand) An additional import duty levied by customs.
* 1932 , E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932 ,
(engineering, rare) Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
* 1883 , Emory Edwards, Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management ,
As nouns the difference between import and primage
is that import is import (the act of importing) while primage is (archaic) a payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship or primage can be (engineering|rare) droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).import
English
Etymology 1
(verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia import)Synonyms
* (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weightAntonyms
* (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificanceVerb
(en verb)- How can I import files from older versions of this application?
Quotations
* (English Citations of "import")Derived terms
* importable * important * importer * importationAntonyms
* (bring in from a foreign country) exportEtymology 2
From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''
- This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
- If I endure it, what imports it you?
- It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
- It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
- Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.
References
* English heteronyms ----primage
English
Etymology 1
From primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)Noun
(en noun)page 197,
- By the bill of lading the ma?ter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accu?tomed.
- The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)page 75,
- Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage ; all others exhibit a slight superheat.