primary primary election | a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen |
direct primary | a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office |
closed primary | a primary in which only registered members of a particular political party can vote, closed primaries strengthen party unity |
open primary | a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party) |
primary care | the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere) |
primary censorship | armed forces censorship performed by personnel of a military unit on the personal communications of persons assigned to that unit |
primary health care | health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system |
primary primary feather primary quill | one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing |
color television colour television color television system colour television system color TV colour TV | a television that transmits images in color |
color tube colour tube color television tube colour television tube color TV tube colour TV tube | a television tube that displays images in full color |
color wash colour wash | a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment |
oil oil color oil colour | oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist |
primary coil primary winding primary | 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 |
tempera poster paint poster color poster colour | pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk |
voltaic cell galvanic cell primary cell | an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy, cannot be recharged |
color colour | the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation |
semblance gloss color colour | an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading, he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity, he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction, the situation soon took on a different color |
color of law colour of law | a mere semblance of legal right, something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law, the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights |
color colour coloring colouring | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect, a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light |
primary color primary colour | any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing |
primary color for pigments primary colour for pigments | any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing, the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow |
primary color for light primary colour for light | any of three primary colors of light from which all colors can be obtained by additive mixing, the primary colors for light are red, blue, and green |
primary subtractive color for light primary subtractive colour for light | any of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white light, the primary subtractive colors for light are magenta, cyan, and yellow |
chromatic color chromatic colour spectral color spectral colour | a color that has hue |
achromatic color achromatic colour | a color lacking hue, white or grey or black |
complexion skin color skin colour | the coloring of a person's face |
nonsolid color nonsolid colour dithered color dithered colour | a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color |
color colour coloration colouration | the timbre of a musical sound, the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music |
primary sex characteristic primary sexual characteristic primary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
color colour vividness | interest and variety and intensity, the Puritan Period was lacking in color, the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness |
primary dentition | dentition of deciduous teeth |
primary tooth deciduous tooth baby tooth milk tooth | one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one ofin children) |
color bar colour bar color line colour line Jim Crow | barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites |
color constancy colour constancy | the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions |
color colour | (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction, each flavor of quarks comes in three colors |
colour supplement | (British) a magazine that is printed in color and circulated with a newspaper (especially on weekends) |
coloring colouring food coloring food colouring food color food colour | a digestible substance used to give color to food, food color made from vegetable dyes |
color scheme colour scheme | a planned combination of colors, the color scheme for this room was determined by an interior decorator |
color colour people of color people of colour | a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
grade school grammar school elementary school primary school | a school for young children, usually the first or grades |
primary | (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it |
person of color person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person |
health professional primary care provider PCP health care provider caregiver | a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability |
primary care physician | the physician who provides primary care, the primary care physician acts as a gatekeeper to the medical system |
primary syphilis | the first stage, characterized by a chancre at the site of infection |
atypical pneumonia primary atypical pneumonia mycoplasmal pneumonia | an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing, caused by mycoplasma, primarily affecting children and young adults |
color blindness colour blindness color vision deficiency colour vision deficiency | genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue |
red-green dichromacy red-green color blindness red-green colour blindness | confusion of red and green |
primary amenorrhea | delay of menarche beyond age |
primary dysmenorrhea | painful menstruation that is intrinsic to menstruation and not the result of a disease |