What is the difference between prime and premier?
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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.
Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
* 2004 , Philip Moore, Scouting an Anthropology of Sport'', ''Anthropologica , Volume 46, Number 1, Canadian Anthropology Society,
* 2011 , Kate Askew, Dot. Bomb Australia , Read How You Want,
* 2011 , Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer?s South Africa , 7th Edition,
(politics, UK, Westminster system) The leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
# (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
#* 1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”'', '' , Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315,
# (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The government leader in parliament and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliamentary system.
#* 1974 , Irving M. Abella, On Strike; Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919-1949 ,
#* 1986 , R. Kenneth Carty, National Politics and Community in Canada ,
#* 2007 , Patrick Moray Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006: Practice, Principles, Performance ,
#* 2009 , Andrew Stewart, John Spoehr (editor), Chapter 16: Industrial Relations'', ''State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity? ,
#* 2011 , Jennifer Curtin, Marian Sawer, 4: Oceania, Gretchen Bauer, Manon Tremblay (editors), ''Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview ,
(politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
* 1983 , Guo Zhou, China & the World , Volume 4, Beijing Review,
* 1998 , , Volume 16,
* 2008 , Steffen W. Schmidt, Mack C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes, American Government & Politics Today ,
(nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
* 1998 , John Herschel Baron, Intimate Music: A History of the Idea of Chamber Music ,
* 2000 , W. Royal Stokes, Living the Jazz Life: Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers in Jazz ,
* 2010 , Murry R. Nelson, The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography ,
As adjectives the difference between prime and premier
is that prime is first in importance, degree, or rank while premier is foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.As nouns the difference between prime and premier
is that prime is one of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.) while premier is the leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.As verbs the difference between prime and premier
is that prime is to prepare a mechanism for its main work while premier is to perform, display or exhibit for the first time.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
premier
English
Adjective
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- This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is truly enormous.
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- If they?d followed the advice they had received more carefully, they would have paired up with John Fairfax Holdings, later Fairfax Media, Australia?s premier independent media company.
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- South Africa?s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country?s premier courses.
See also
* preeminent, primary, primeNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia premier)page 910,
- Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do.
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- More surprising than the company?s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn.
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- The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860.
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- John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade.
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- In 1890 it was South Australian Premier Charles Cameron Kingston who first proposed a system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration to deal with industrial unrest.
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- In 2009 Kristina Keneally became Labor premier in NSW in similar circumstances to her predecessors in Western Australia and Victoria - a Labor government that was in deep trouble because of mismanagement and corruption scandals.
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- This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa.
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- Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state?s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier .
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- So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier' and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the ' premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power.
Usage notes
Often capitalised, especially when used as a title. In British English, prime minister and premier''''' are interchangeable, while in Australia and Canada, the federal leader is the prime minister and the state/provincial leaders are ' premier s. The term prime minister is commonly a synonym also in non-Westminster system contextsSynonyms
* (parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a national parliament) prime minister, first minister * (parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliament) first minister * (head of government in a non-Westminster system) prime minister * (second-in-command on a ship) first lieutenant, first mateSee also
* premiere * king, queen, president * governor * first ministerVerb
(en verb)- The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew.
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- Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier' Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh?s Quartet, had also received Beethoven?s permission to ' premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself.
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- So what I want to do is try to premier the new piece with the other piece, and have just a big splash in the city.
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- To premier the record and to show that they were still able to perform, the Stones made a surprise appearance at the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert on May 12 in Wembley Stadium.