A Quick and Simple Dictionary

prime

1. Adjective.  First in importance, degree, or rank.
2. Adjective.  First in time, order, or sequence.
3. Adjective.  First in excellence, quality, or value.
4. Adjective.  (mathematics, lay) Having no integral factors except itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
5. Adjective.  (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
6. Adjective.  (mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
7. Noun.  (Christianity, historical) One of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.).
8. Noun.  (obsolete) The early morning.
9. Noun.  (context, now) The earliest stage of something.
10. Noun.  The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
11. Noun.  The chief or best individual or part.
12. Noun.  (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
13. Noun.  (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
14. Noun.  (context, algebra) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
15. Noun.  (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
16. Noun.  (backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
17. Noun.  The symbol: ′.
18. Verb.  (transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
19. Verb.  (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.