Primary vs Marker - What's the difference?
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The first in a group or series.
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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.
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(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
A primary colour.
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(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
An object used to mark a location.
Someone or something that marks.
# One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
# A counter used in card games and other games.
# The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
# An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
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A felt-tipped pen.
(slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
(slang, figuratively) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor.
(paintball) A device that fires a paintball
(sports) A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
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A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
(In competition law) A recognition given by a competition authority that a company is the first to approach it to reveal the existence of a cartel, as a prelude to a formal application for leniency for the company.
To mark or write on (something) using a
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As verbs the difference between primary and marker
is that primary is (us|intransitive) to take part in a primary election while marker is .As an adjective primary
is the first in a group or series.As a noun primary
is a primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.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
External links
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English
(wikipedia marker)Noun
(en noun)Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 22 September 2013:
- Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.
- We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers .
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Synonyms
* (felt-tipped pen) marker penDerived terms
* biomarker * discourse marker * magic marker * man marker / man-marker * marker bed * marker gene * on-time marker * permanent marker * whiteboard markerVerb
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