Prime vs. Prize

First or highest in rank or importance; main

Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a contest or competition.

Highest in quality; excellent

Something offered or won in a lottery or similar game of chance.

Being the most desired or suitable example of something

Something worth striving for; a highly desirable possession.

Of or relating to the USDA highest grade of beef, having abundant marbling and usually only sold at restaurants.

Something seized by force or taken as booty, especially an enemy ship and its cargo captured at sea during wartime.

First or early in time, order, or sequence

Chiefly Southern US Something used as a lever or for prying.

(Mathematics) Of, relating to, or being a prime number.

Offered or given as a prize

The period of greatest physical and mental robustness

Given a prize, or likely to win a prize

The period of best performance or peak activity

Worthy of a prize; first-class

To make ready; prepare

To value highly; esteem or treasure.

To prepare (a gun or mine) for firing by inserting a charge of gunpowder or a primer.

To estimate the worth of; evaluate.

To prepare for operation, as by pouring water into a pump or gasoline into a carburetor.

To move or force with a lever; pry

To prepare (a surface) for painting by covering with size, primer, or an undercoat.

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

To inform or instruct beforehand; coach.

Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.

To become prepared for future action or operation.

An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.

First in importance, degree, or rank.

That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

First in time, order, or sequence.

Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.

First in excellence, quality, or value.

(obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.

Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).

A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.

Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.

Obsolete form of price

(mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.

To consider highly valuable; to esteem.

Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.

(obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.

Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.

(obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.

(obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.

(historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.

Having won a prize; award-winning.

(Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.

; exceptional.

(obsolete) The early morning generally.

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

The earliest stage of something.

Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.

The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

The chief or best individual or part.

Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.

(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.

A contest for a reward; competition.

(fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.

A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.

Estimation; valuation.

(card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.

To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.

(backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.

To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.

The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.

To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.

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.

Something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery;

An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.

Goods or money obtained illegally

(obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.

Something given as a token of victory

A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.

Hold dear;

(cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open;

(transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.

Regard highly; think much of;

(transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.

Of superior grade;

To be renewed.

(intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

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.

To trim or prune.

(math) To mark with a prime mark.

First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.

First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.

First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.

Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

Lecherous; lustful; lewd.

Marked or distinguished by a mark (´) called a prime mark.

Divisible by no number except itself or unity; as, 7 is a prime number.

The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.

The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.

That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.

The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.

The first of the chief guards.

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.

To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.

To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.

To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.

To trim or prune, as trees.

To mark with a prime mark.

To be renewed, or as at first.

To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

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; - said of a steam boiler.

A number that has no factor but itself and 1

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity

The second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.

The time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest

Insert a primer into (a gun, mine, charge, etc.) preparatory to detonation or firing;

Cover with a primer; apply a primer to

Fill with priming liquid;

First in rank or degree;

Used of the first or originating agent;

Of superior grade;

Of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers;

At the best stage;