Primary vs Ascendant - What's the difference?
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The first in a group or series.
* Bishop Pearson
* John Locke
Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
(label) idiopathic
A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
The first year of grade school.
A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
A primary school.
* 2001 , David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
A primary colour.
* 2003 , Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
(US) To take part in a primary election.
(US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election
Rising, moving upward.
* Browne
Surpassing or controlling.
* South
* John Stuart Mill
Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
* Robertson
An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
Ascent; height; elevation.
* Temple
(astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
Primary is a related term of ascendant.
As adjectives the difference between primary and ascendant
is that primary is the first in a group or series while ascendant is rising, moving upward.As nouns the difference between primary and ascendant
is that primary is a primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party while ascendant is being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.As a verb primary
is (us|intransitive) to take part in a primary election.primary
English
(wikipedia primary)Adjective
(en adjective)- Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
- the church of Christ, in its primary institution
- These I call original, or primary , qualities of body.
- Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
Derived terms
* primarily * primary care * primary color, primary colour * primary producer * primary research * primary school * primary sourceSee also
* first * primus inter pares * secondary (2) * tertiary (3) * quaternary (4)Noun
(primaries)- Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
- By adding and subtracting the three primaries , cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.
Verb
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The constellation about that time ascendant .
- An ascendant spirit over him.
- The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.
Noun
(wikipedia ascendant) (en noun)- One man has the ascendant over another.
- Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
- (Ayliffe)
- Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant .
- (Burke)