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“primarily”
primarily (adverb) (not comparable)
1. Relating to that which is essential or basic to an activity: Hank's research projects dealt primarily with the investigation of the sleeping habits of desert toads.
2. Used to indicate the main purpose for doing something or the reason for doing it: Primarily the purpose of creating a different kind of dictionary for easier comprehension is to provide better understanding of what words mean and how they are used in context.
2. Used to indicate the main purpose for doing something or the reason for doing it: Primarily the purpose of creating a different kind of dictionary for easier comprehension is to provide better understanding of what words mean and how they are used in context.
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(primarily about narcotic addicts)
(Greek: sand; used primarily in botany and zoology)
(a different kind of vocabulary lexicon that emphasizes English words primarily from Latin and Greek origins)
(Greek: of, or pertaining to "god of war", Ares or Mars, used primarily in astronomy)
(Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity"; also a reference to the "cup-shaped ring of sepals encasing a flower bud")
(Greek: hollow; abdomen; hernia; used primarily in the sense of concave; pertaining to a bodily cavity)
(primarily the learning of the Latin and/or Greek languages, history, and literature)
(Greek: cells, cell, hollow; used primarily in the extended sense of "animal or plant cells" [because cells were originally thought to be hollow])
(Greek > Latin: disk; round plate thrown in athletic competitions; used primarily in the extended sense of "something shaped like a round plate")
(Greek: abortion, untimely birth; primarily used to mean "congenital absence" or "defect" of a part which is normally present)
(Greek: dawn [east], daybreak; early; primarily used to signify, "early, primeval")
(Greek: daybreak, dawn, red of the dawn sky; primarily used in naming chemical compounds, especially pertaining to red stain or dye)
(Latin: producing energy; primarily by burning)
(Latin: helmet, helmet shaped, to cover with a helmet; cap; used primarily in zoology and botany with phases of sense development that seem to have been: weasel, weasel's skin or hide, leather, and then a helmet made of leather; by extension, it also means "cat, cats" in some words)
(Named after the Italian physician and physicist who investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue; who in 1762 discovered and first described voltaic electricity; electric currents; and primarily, direct electrical current.)
(Greek: thin, small, fine, delicate, mild; from "peeled, husked"; used primarily in the sense of "abnormally thin, narrow, slender, or delicate")
(A suffix that forms adverbs, primarily from adjectives.)
(Latin: bad, badly, harsh, wrong; ill; evil; abnormal, defective; used primarily as a prefix)
(Latin: a suffix; state of, result of; he who, that which)
(Latin: marked with the palm of the hand; adorned with palm leaves; used primarily in the sense of "having five lobes that diverge from a common center" [as fingers from an open palm])
(Greek > Latin > Old French: passageway, used primarily as "a pore, a small orifice"; opening; cavity, tract)
(Greek: one who stands before, in front of; refers primarily to the prostate gland [so named because it "stands before" the mouth of the bladder])