What part of speech is primaries?

Primaries can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. primaries is a noun, plural of primary.

Inflections

Noun

What does primaries mean?

Definitions

Noun

primary - a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
primary - (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
primary - one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
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"

Examples of primaries

#   Sentence  
1. noun They are deemed to be on notice that they had alternate point rights (its in the tariff) and if they wanted to submit a bid that had a different rate for primaries and alternates, they could have done so.
2. noun Our letter agreement simply memorializes that we will charge the same negotiated rate whether the gas flows on primaries or alternates.
3. noun The sum of the ignorance of the Republican candidates in the primaries for the U.S. presidential election is simply mind-boggling: one is afraid that China will obtain nuclear weapons, which they have had for 44 years, and the other proposes to close the U.S. embassy in Iran, which has been closed for 32 years... Such stupidity at the head of the world's most powerful country gives one the shivers!
4. noun Current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil.
5. noun The dark horse candidate was losing in the polls before the primary.
6. noun Remember "Wacky Races"? Watch the US primary, it's its spitting image!
7. noun The dark horse candidate was losing in the polls before the primary.
8. noun Remember "Wacky Races"? Watch the US primary, it's its spitting image!
9. adj. Primary goals.
10. adj. A primary effect.
11. adj. Primary sources.
12. adj. A primary interest.
13. adj. A primary instinct.
14. adj. Policemen were primary targets.
Sentence  
noun
They are deemed to be on notice that they had alternate point rights (its in the tariff) and if they wanted to submit a bid that had a different rate for primaries and alternates, they could have done so.
Our letter agreement simply memorializes that we will charge the same negotiated rate whether the gas flows on primaries or alternates.
The sum of the ignorance of the Republican candidates in the primaries for the U.S. presidential election is simply mind-boggling: one is afraid that China will obtain nuclear weapons, which they have had for 44 years, and the other proposes to close the U.S. embassy in Iran, which has been closed for 32 years... Such stupidity at the head of the world's most powerful country gives one the shivers!
Current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil.
The dark horse candidate was losing in the polls before the primary.
Remember "Wacky Races"? Watch the US primary, it's its spitting image!
The dark horse candidate was losing in the polls before the primary.
Remember "Wacky Races"? Watch the US primary, it's its spitting image!
adj.
Primary goals.
A primary effect.
Primary sources.
A primary interest.
A primary instinct.
Policemen were primary targets.

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