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The correct spelling is primes.
How to pronounce primes
noun
IPA: /pɹaɪmz/
Say it like: Pri-mes
The correct spelling is primes. The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour. For example: "3 is a prime."
Usage Examples
“3 is a prime.”
“I'm threatening to build a prime here.”
“You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- 2.The religious service appointed to this hour.
- 3.The early morning generally.
- 4.The earliest stage of something.
- 5.The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
verb
- 1.To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
- 2.To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- 3.To be renewed.
- 4.To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- 5.(of a steam boiler) 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.
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