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Primage vs Primate - What's the difference?

primage | primate |

As nouns the difference between primage and primate

is that primage is a payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship while primate is a mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.

primage

English

Etymology 1

From primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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, 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.
  • (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 ,
    • The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 , page 75,
    • Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage ; all others exhibit a slight superheat.

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    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) primate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates , including simians and prosimians.
    • ''Primates range from lemurs to gorillas
  • (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
    • Hyponyms
    * See also * ape * aye-aye * capuchin * douroucouli * entrina * exarch * galago * gibbon * great ape * howler monkey * human, human being * indri * lemur * loris * marmoset * monkey * night monkey * owl monkey * patriarch * potto * saki * simian * spider monkey * squirrel monkey * tamarin * tarsier * titi * uakari * woolly monkey

    Etymology 2

    (English (m)). Compare (m), of similar derivation and meaning.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
  • (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.

    • Derived terms

    * Primates * primateship * Primate of All England * Primate of England * Primate of the Gauls

    Related terms

    * primatial * (l)

    See also

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