Central vs. Primary

Centraladjective

Being in the centre.

Primaryadjective

The first in a group or series.

‘Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.’;

Centraladjective

Having or containing the centre of something.

Primaryadjective

Main; principal; placed ahead of others.

‘Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.’;

Centraladjective

Being very important, or key to something.

Primaryadjective

(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.

Centraladjective

(anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

Primaryadjective

(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

Centraladjective

Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.

Primaryadjective

(medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.

Centralnoun

The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

Primaryadjective

(medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.

Centralnoun

a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

Primarynoun

A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

Centraladjective

serving as an essential component;

‘a cardinal rule’; ‘the central cause of the problem’; ‘an example that was fundamental to the argument’; ‘computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure’;

Primarynoun

The first year of grade school.

Centraladjective

in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area;

‘a central position’; ‘central heating and air conditioning’;

Primarynoun

A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

Centraladjective

used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place;

‘the people of Central and Northern Europe’; ‘country in central Africa’;

Primarynoun

The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.

Centraladjective

centrally located and easy to reach;

‘the central city has good bus service’; ‘the shop has a central location’;

Primarynoun

A primary school.

Centraladjective

at the point or in the area that is in the middle of something

‘central London’; ‘the station has a central courtyard’;

Primarynoun

(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.

Centraladjective

accessible from a variety of places

‘coaches met at a central location’;

Primarynoun

A primary colour.

Centraladjective

(of a vowel) articulated in the centre of the mouth.

Primarynoun

(medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.

‘unknown primary’; ‘most common primaries’;

Centraladjective

of the greatest importance; principal or essential

‘his preoccupation with history is central to his work’;

Primarynoun

(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary

Centraladjective

having or denoting supreme power over a country or organization

‘central government’;

Primaryverb

To knock out an incumbent in the primary election, typically used referring to a non-incumbent challenger.

Centralnoun

a place with a high concentration of a specified type of person or thing

‘you're in workaholic central here’;

Primaryverb

To take part in a primary election.

Primaryverb

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

Primaryadjective

First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.

‘The church of Christ, in its primary institution.’; ‘These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.’;

Primaryadjective

First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.

Primaryadjective

First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.

Primaryadjective

Earliest formed; fundamental.

Primaryadjective

Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

Primarynoun

That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.

Primarynoun

A primary meeting; a caucus.

Primarynoun

One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.

Primarynoun

A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.

Primarynoun

a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

Primarynoun

one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

Primarynoun

coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit;

‘current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil’;

Primaryadjective

of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand;

‘primary goals’; ‘a primary effect’; ‘primary sources’; ‘a primary interest’;

Primaryadjective

not derived from or reducible to something else; basic;

‘a primary instinct’;

Primaryadjective

most important element;

‘the chief aim of living’; ‘the main doors were of solid glass’; ‘the principal rivers of America’; ‘the principal example’; ‘policemen were primary targets’;

Primaryadjective

of or being the essential or basic part;

‘an elementary need for love and nurturing’;

Primaryadjective

of primary importance;

‘basic truths’;

Primaryadjective

of chief importance; principal

‘the government's primary aim is to see significant reductions in unemployment’;

Primaryadjective

earliest in time or order

‘the primary stage of their political education’;

Primaryadjective

not derived from, caused by, or based on anything else; original

‘his expert handling of the primary and secondary literature is clear on every page’;

Primaryadjective

belonging to or directly derived from the first stage of development or growth

‘a primary bone tumour’;

Primaryadjective

relating to or denoting education for children between the ages of about five and eleven

‘a primary teacher’;

Primaryadjective

former term for Palaeozoic

Primaryadjective

relating to or denoting the input side of a transformer or other inductive device.

Primaryadjective

(of an organic compound) having its functional group located on a carbon atom which is bonded to no more than one other carbon atom

‘a primary alcohol’;

Primaryadjective

(chiefly of amines) derived from ammonia by replacement of one hydrogen atom by an organic group.

Primarynoun

(in the US) a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election

‘these two republicans should win their primaries easily’;

Primarynoun

a primary colour.

Primarynoun

a primary feather.

Primarynoun

the body orbited by a smaller satellite or companion.

Primarynoun

a primary coil or winding in an electrical transformer.

Primarynoun

the Palaeozoic era.