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Prime and Prize Definitions

Prime

First or highest in rank or importance; main
Our prime consideration is for the children's safety. See Usage Note at perfect.

Prize

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

Prime

Highest in quality; excellent
Prime real estate.

Prize

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

Prime

Being the most desired or suitable example of something
A prime candidate for the study.

Prize

Something worth striving for; a highly desirable possession.
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Prime

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

Prize

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

Prime

First or early in time, order, or sequence
The prime action of the drug.

Prize

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

Prime

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

Prize

Offered or given as a prize
A prize cup.
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Prime

The period of greatest physical and mental robustness
Athletes in the prime of their lives.

Prize

Given a prize, or likely to win a prize
A prize cow.

Prime

The period of best performance or peak activity
This car is definitely past its prime.

Prize

Worthy of a prize; first-class
Our prize azaleas.

Prime

To make ready; prepare
Guard dogs primed for attack.

Prize

To value highly; esteem or treasure.
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Prime

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

Prize

To estimate the worth of; evaluate.

Prime

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

Prize

To move or force with a lever; pry
Prized open the antique chest.

Prime

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

Prize

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

Prime

To inform or instruct beforehand; coach.

Prize

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.

Prime

To become prepared for future action or operation.

Prize

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.

Prime

First in importance, degree, or rank.
Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.

Prize

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

Prime

First in time, order, or sequence.
Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.

Prize

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

Prime

First in excellence, quality, or value.
This is a prime location for a bookstore.

Prize

(obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.

Prime

Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
Thirteen is a prime number.

Prize

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

Prime

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

Prize

Obsolete form of price

Prime

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

Prize

To consider highly valuable; to esteem.

Prime

Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.

Prize

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

Prime

Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

Prize

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

Prime

(obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.

Prize

(obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.

Prime

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

Prize

Having won a prize; award-winning.
A prize vegetable

Prime

(Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.

Prize

; exceptional.
He was a prize fool.

Prime

(obsolete) The early morning generally.

Prize

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
I will depart my pris, or my prey, by deliberation.
His own prize,Whom formerly he had in battle won.

Prime

The earliest stage of something.

Prize

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.
I'll never wrestle for prize more.
I fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize.

Prime

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

Prize

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

Prime

The chief or best individual or part.

Prize

Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Prime

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

Prize

A contest for a reward; competition.

Prime

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

Prize

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

Prime

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

Prize

Estimation; valuation.

Prime

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

Prize

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

Prime

(backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
I'm threatening to build a prime here.

Prize

To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
A goodly price that I was prized at.
I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honor.

Prime

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

Prize

To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
I prized your person, but your crown disdain.

Prime

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.

Prize

Something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery;
The prize was a free trip to Europe

Prime

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

Prize

Goods or money obtained illegally

Prime

(obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.

Prize

Something given as a token of victory

Prime

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

Prize

Hold dear;
I prize these old photographs

Prime

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

Prize

To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open;
The burglar jimmied the lock
Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail

Prime

(transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.

Prize

Regard highly; think much of;
I respect his judgement
We prize his creativity

Prime

(transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.

Prize

Of superior grade;
Choice wines
Prime beef
Prize carnations
Quality paper
Select peaches

Prime

To be renewed.

Prime

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

Prime

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.

Prime

To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).

Prime

To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
To prime a witness
The boys are primed for mischief.

Prime

To trim or prune.
To prime trees

Prime

(math) To mark with a prime mark.

Prime

First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
She was not the prime cause, but I myself.

Prime

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

Prime

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

Prime

Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him primeIn manhood where youth ended.

Prime

Lecherous; lustful; lewd.

Prime

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

Prime

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

Prime

The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.
In the very prime of the world.
Hope waits upon the flowery prime.

Prime

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

Prime

That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.
Give him always of the prime.

Prime

The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.
Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime.
They sleep till that it was pryme large.

Prime

The first of the chief guards.

Prime

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.

Prime

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

Prime

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

Prime

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

Prime

To trim or prune, as trees.

Prime

To mark with a prime mark.

Prime

To be renewed, or as at first.
Night's bashful empress, though she often wane,As oft repeats her darkness, primes again.

Prime

To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

Prime

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.

Prime

A number that has no factor but itself and 1

Prime

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Prime

The second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.

Prime

The time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest

Prime

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

Prime

Cover with a primer; apply a primer to

Prime

Fill with priming liquid;
Prime a car engine

Prime

First in rank or degree;
An architect of premier rank
The prime minister

Prime

Used of the first or originating agent;
Prime mover

Prime

Of superior grade;
Choice wines
Prime beef
Prize carnations
Quality paper
Select peaches

Prime

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

Prime

At the best stage;
Our manhood's prime vigor

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