primaries

UK
/ˈpraɪ.məriz/
US
/ˈpraɪˌmɛriz/

Übersetzungen

primarysubstantiv

primaries

Pl.

primaries
Pl.
UK
/ˈpraɪ.məri/
US
/ˈpraɪˌmɛri/
праймеризполит., США; обычно мн. ч.
The primary was held to select the party's candidate for the election.
Праймериз были проведены, чтобы выбрать кандидата партии на выборы.
Synonyme
primary election
primary contest
preliminary election
nomination contest
primary vote
primary school
elementary school
grade school
primaryverb

primaries

primaried
Präteritum
primaried
Partizip Perfekt
primarying
Gerundium
UK
/ˈpraɪ.məri/
US
/ˈpraɪˌmɛri/
Used chiefly in U.S. politics meaning ‘to challenge (an incumbent) in a primary election’. Transitive.
Synonyme

Definitionen

primarysubstantiv
A preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election.
The primary elections will determine which candidates will represent the party in the general election.
A primary color, which is a color that cannot be created by mixing other colors together.
Red, blue, and yellow are considered primary colors in art.
Each of the main flight feathers on a bird’s wing.
The falcon’s primaries were clipped for the veterinary procedure.
The primary coil or winding in an electrical transformer or similar device.
If the primary is short-circuited, the transformer will overheat.
The principal body in a gravitational system, such as the star in a binary star or the planet orbited by a moon.
The planet’s gravitational pull keeps its moons in orbit around the primary.
(Britain, informal) A primary school, or a pupil attending one.
Their youngest has just started at the village primary.
primaryverb
To challenge (an incumbent politician) by running against them in a party’s primary election.
The senator was primaried from the right by a more conservative opponent.