Elementary vs. Primary
Difference Between Elementary and Primary
Elementaryadjective
Of, relating to, or constituting the basic, essential, or fundamental part
an elementary need for love and nurturing.Primaryadjective
First or highest in rank or importance; principal.
Elementaryadjective
Of, relating to, or involving the fundamental or simplest aspects of a subject
an elementary problem in statistics.Primaryadjective
Occurring first in time or sequence; earliest
the primary stages of the project.Elementaryadjective
Of or relating to an elementary school or elementary education
the elementary grades.elementary teachers.Primaryadjective
Of or relating to primary schools.
Elementaryadjective
Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
Primaryadjective
Not derived from anything else; basic or original
The interviews and other primary materials in the study are more interesting than the analysis.Elementaryadjective
Relating to an elementary school.
Primaryadjective
Immediate; direct
a primary source of information.Elementaryadjective
(physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
Primaryadjective
(Geology) Characteristic of or existing in a rock at the time of its formation.
Elementaryadjective
(archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
Primaryadjective
Of or relating to a primary color or colors.
Elementarynoun
An elementary school
Primaryadjective
Having a word root or other linguistic element as a basis that cannot be further analyzed or broken down. Used of the derivation of a word or word element.
Elementarynoun
A supernatural being which is associated with the elements.
Primaryadjective
Referring to present or future time. Used as a collective designation for various present and future verb tenses in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.
Elementaryadjective
easy and not involved or complicated;
an elementary problem in statisticselementary, my dear Watsona simple gamefound an uncomplicated solution to the problemPrimaryadjective
Of or relating to primary stress.
Elementaryadjective
of or being the essential or basic part;
an elementary need for love and nurturingPrimaryadjective
(Electronics) Of, relating to, or constituting an inducting current, circuit, or coil.
Primaryadjective
Of, relating to, or designating the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.
Primaryadjective
Of or relating to agriculture, forestry, the industries that extract natural materials from the earth, or the products so obtained
a primary commodity.Primaryadjective
Relating to, or having a carbon atom that is attached to only one other carbon atom in a molecule.
Primaryadjective
Relating to the replacement of only one of several atoms or groups in a compound, such as an amine in which one valence of the functional group is taken by a carbon atom.
Primaryadjective
(Botany) Of, relating to, or derived from a primary meristem.
Primarynoun
One that is first in time, order, or sequence.
Primarynoun
One that is first or best in degree, quality, or importance.
Primarynoun
One that is fundamental, basic, or elemental.
Primarynoun
A meeting of the registered voters of a political party for the purpose of nominating candidates and for choosing delegates to their party convention.
Primarynoun
A preliminary election in which the registered voters of a political party nominate candidates for office.
Primarynoun
A primary color.
Primarynoun
A primary flight feather.
Primarynoun
(Electronics) An inducting current, circuit, or coil.
Primarynoun
A celestial body, especially a star, relative to other bodies in orbit around it.
Primarynoun
The brighter of two stars that make up a binary star.
Primaryadjective
The first in a group or series.
Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.Primaryadjective
Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.Primaryadjective
(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
Primaryadjective
(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
Primaryadjective
(medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
Primaryadjective
(medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Primarynoun
A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
Primarynoun
The first year of grade school.
Primarynoun
A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
Primarynoun
The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
Primarynoun
A primary school.
Primarynoun
(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
Primarynoun
A primary colour.
Primarynoun
(medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
unknown primarymost common primariesPrimarynoun
(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
Primaryverb
To knock out an incumbent in the primary election, typically used referring to a non-incumbent challenger.
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
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 coilPrimaryadjective
of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand;
primary goalsa primary effectprimary sourcesa primary interestPrimaryadjective
not derived from or reducible to something else; basic;
a primary instinctPrimaryadjective
most important element;
the chief aim of livingthe main doors were of solid glassthe principal rivers of Americathe principal examplepolicemen were primary targetsPrimaryadjective
of or being the essential or basic part;
an elementary need for love and nurturingPrimaryadjective
of primary importance;
basic truths
