Prime vs. Prize

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