Prime vs Standard - What's the difference?
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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.
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A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
# A level of quality or attainment.
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# Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
# A musical work of established popularity.
# A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
# The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
#* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
# A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
# An object supported in an upright position, such as a .
#* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, chapter=Foreword, title= # The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
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# One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
# Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
# A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
#* Sir W. Temple
# The sheth of a plough.
A manual transmission vehicle.
(botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
(shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
A large drinking cup.
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
(of a tree or shrub) Growing on an erect stem of full height.
Having recognized excellence or authority.
Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
(not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
As normally supplied (not optional).
As a verb prime
is .As a noun standard is
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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
standard
English
Noun
(en noun)- the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
- By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
The China Governess, passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
- His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.
- In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.
- (Greene)
Adjective
(en adjective)- standard''' works in history; '''standard authors
