prime
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4.1
- adjective
- /praɪm/
- But Organovo's announcement doesn't mean bioprinting is ready for prime time, Lipson said.
- in prime condition
- prime time
Examples
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My Tyson in his prime, what does a power punch feel like from him?
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Harshire's prime concern is that none of his men plunder any of the valley's other tombs.
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Ideas that had passed their prime, it used to be said, came to America to die.
Academic text (1999) -
"One would consider most women of that age past their prime and firmly on the shelf."
Fiction book (1999) -
I don't know, like in my in my peak in my prime, probably a couple thousand.
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One such strategy, the vastly popular practice of differentiated instruction, is a prime example of this.
Academic text (2011) -
For example, California has 500,000 acres of prime agricultural land situated along the San Joaquin Delta.
Academic text (1999) -
"Preschool and early kindergarten are prime times for teaching PA to lay the groundwork for decoding."
Academic text (2012) -
Apart from this fossil bed, the only other prime example of soft-tissue pyritization is Germany's Hunsruck Slate.
Academic text (1992) -
At thirty-five, he felt he was at his prime, full of energy and ambition.
Synonyms
64
4.5
Most important or best in a group of similar things
16
3.3
Something is at its strongest, most successful, or most intense
1
9.9
At the highest point in development
Antonyms
42
5.9
A slow change when something like a building or a person's health becomes worse
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
10
3.6
A whole number greater than 1 that you can divide only by 1 and itself
- Formal
4
9.9
A first being people think starts everything, often the God of some religions
- Specialized
1
4.2
The lowest interest rate banks charge to their best business customers
1
4.4
An imaginary line at zero degrees that runs through Greenwich, England and is used to measure east and west
- Specialized
1
4.9
A number greater than one that can only be divided by one and itself and divides another number exactly
- Specialized
A whole number greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself
How Vigorous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Prime comes from the Latin primus meaning 'first', so to be in one's prime is to be at your 'first' or most powerful stage. That explains why we use prime to mean being at the peak of health or skill.