Prime vs Lord - What's the difference?
prime | lord |
First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence
* Tennyson
* Milton
First in excellence, quality, or value.
(mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
(mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
(mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
* Milton
(obsolete) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
(Christianity, historical) One of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.).
* Spenser
(obsolete) The early morning.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:
The earliest stage of something.
* Hooker
* Waller
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
* Eustace
* Dryden
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The chief or best individual or part.
* Jonathan Swift
(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
(fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
(algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
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, title= (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
(backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
The symbol
(chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
(obsolete) To be renewed.
* Quarles
To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
(of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
(math) To mark with a prime mark.
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(label) The master of the servants of a household; (label) the master of a feudal manor
*c. 950 , (Lindisfarne Gospels), Matt. xxiv. 46
*:Eadig ðe]] ðone miððy cymes hlaferd his on-fand sua [[doing, doende.
*1611 , (King James Bible), Matt. xxiv. 46
*:Ble??ed]] is that finde [[so, ?o doing.
*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , iii. ii. 167 ff.
*:Por . ...But now, I was the Lord
*:of this faire man?ion]], of my [[servants, ?eruants,
*:Queene]] oer [[myself, my ?elfe...
*1794 , E. Christian in (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England) , II. 418
*:Lords of manors are distinguished from other land-owners with regard to the game.
#(label) The male head of a household, a father or husband.
#*831 , charter in Henry Sweet, The oldest English texts , 445
#*:Ymbe ðet lond et cert ðe hire eðelmod hire hlabard salde.
#*1594 , (William Shakespeare), "(The Rape of Lucrece)"
#*:...thou worthie Lord ,
#*:Of that vnworthie]] wife that [[greets, greeteth thee
#*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), (The Taming of the Shrew) (1623), v. ii. 131 f.
#*:Pet. Katherine , I charge thee, tell the?e]] [[head-strong, head-?trong women,
#*:What dutie]] they doe owe their Lords and [[husbands, hu?bands!
#*1611 , (King James Bible), Gen. xviii. 12
#*:Therefore Sarah laughed within her ?elfe]], , my lord being old [[also, al?o?
#*1816 , (Jane Austen), , III. xvi. 300
#*:Yes, here I am, my good friend; and here I have been so long, that anywhere else I should think it necessary to apologise; but, the truth is, that I am waiting for my lord and master.
#(label) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
#*ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 601 f.
#*:Als]] oure lauerd has [[heaven, heuen in hand
#*:Sua]] [[should, suld man be lauerd of land.
#*1480 , Waterford Archives in the 10th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1885), App. v. 316
#*:All suche lordes as have gutters betuxte]] [[their, thar houses.
#*ante'' 1637 , (Ben Jonson), ''Sad Shepherd , ii. i. 36
#*:A mightie Lord of Swine!
#*1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro)'s Æneis , xii
#*:Turnus...
#*:Wrench'd from his feeble hold the shining Sword;
#*:And plung'd it in the Bosom of its Lord .
#*1874 , J. H. Collins, Principles of Metal Mining (1875), Gloss. 139/2
#*:Lord''''', the owner of the land in which a mine is situated is called the ‘' lord ’.
One possessing similar mastery over others; (label) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler
*c. 893 , Orosius's History , i. i. §13
*:Ohthere sæde his hlaforde , Ælfrede cyninge, þæt...
* 1530 , John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement , 680/1
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , xii. 70
# (label) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king
# A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
#* ante 1375 , William of Palerne (1867), l.4539
#* ante'' 1420 , T. Hoccleve, ''De Regimine Principum , 442
#* 1453 , Rolls of Parliament, V. 266/2
#* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (The life and death of King Richard the Second) , iv.i.18
#* 1614 , J. Selden, Titles of Honor , 59
#* 1900 July 21, Daily Express , 5/7
# A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones
#* 1526 , W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection , i. sig. Bviiiv
#* 1826 , (Benjamin Disraeli), Vivian Grey , II. iii. iii. 26
One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
* ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 782
* 1398 , John Trevisa translating Bartholomew de Glanville's De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495), viii. xvi. 322
* 1992 November 18, (Larry David), (Seinfeld) , 4.11: "(The Contest)":
# The magnates of a trade or profession
#* 1823 , W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (1885), I. 399
(label) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time,
* (Geoffrey Chaucer), Treatise on the Astrolabe , ii. §4:
A hunchback.
*1699 , B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew :
Sixpence.
* 1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement , 782/1:
Domineer or act like a lord.
(label) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
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As a verb prime
is .As a proper noun lord is
.prime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) prime, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
- Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
- prime forests
- She was not the prime cause, but I myself.
- This is a prime location for a bookstore.
- Thirteen is a prime number.
- His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime / In manhood where youth ended.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* greatest, most important, main, primary, principal, top * excellent, top quality * earliest, first, original * (having no nontrivial factors) indivisible * (dividing a factor of any product it divides) *Noun
(en noun)- Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime .
- They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Prime
- in the very prime of the world
- Hope waits upon the flowery prime .
- cut off in their prime
- the prime of youth
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- Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime , didn’t you?
- Give him always of the prime .
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Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’' cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving ' primes .}}
Synonyms
* bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak * (chief or best individual or part) choice, prize, quality, select * prime number (when an integer)Derived terms
(algebra) * cousin prime * primality * prime constellation * prime number * sexy prime * twin primeEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to primage.Verb
(prim)- You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
- I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
- Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, / As oft repeats her darkness, primes again.
- to prime a witness
- The boys are primed for mischief.
- (Thackeray)
- to prime trees
Synonyms
* (to apply a coat of primer paint to) ground, undercoatDerived terms
* primerSee also
* prime contract * prime decomposition * prime factorization * prime number * pseudoprimeReferences
lord
English
(Lord)Noun
(en noun)- It is a pytuouse]] case... whan subjectes rebell [[against, agaynst their naturall lorde .
- Man over men He made not Lord .
- To fare out as fast with his fader to speke, & with lordesse of þat]] [[land, lond.
- Men myghten lordis knowe
- By there]] arraye, from [[other, oþir folke.
- If such persone bee of the estate of a Lord , as Duc]], Marques, Erle, Viscount or [[baron, Baron.
- Princes, and noble Lords :
- What an?wer]] I make to this [[base, ba?e man?
- Our English name Lord , whereby we and the Scots stile]] all such as are of the Greater [[nobility, Nobilitie i. Barons, as also Bishops.
- The Englishman of to-day still dearly loves a lord .
- Farre]] excellyng the state of lordes , erles, dukes or [[kings, kynges.
- The Marquess played off the two Lords and the Baronet against his former friend.
- O wityng bath]] [[good, god and ill ?ee suld be lauerds at ?our will.
- The sonne]] is the lorde of [[planets, planetes.
- 1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro) as (Georgics) , iii
- Love is Lord of all.
- But are you still master of your domain?
- I am king of the county. You?
- Lord of the manor.
- Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!
- The assendent]], & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan hows of the [[ascendant, assendent.
- Lord , a very crooked, deformed... Person.
- Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord ’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.
Derived terms
* lord mesne, lord paramount, lord in gross, lord of the manor * House of Lords, Lords Temporal, Lords Spiritual * drunk as a lord * lord-in-waiting, lord of the bedchamber, lord superior * lords of creation * warlord * landlord * lord-fishSynonyms
* drighten, possessor, proprietor, sovereignSee also
* ladyVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)