costeleta

Phonetic: "/pɹaɪ̯m/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.

Definition: The religious service appointed to this hour.

Definition: The early morning generally.

Definition: The earliest stage of something.

Definition: The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

Definition: The chief or best individual or part.

Definition: The first note or tone of a musical scale.

Definition: The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

Definition: A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.

Example: 3 is a prime.

Definition: A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.

Definition: Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.

Example: I'm threatening to build a prime here.

Definition: The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.

Definition: Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.

Definition: An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.

Definition: The priming in a flintlock.

Definition: Contraction of prime lens, a film lens

Phonetic: "/pɹaɪ̯m/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: First in importance, degree, or rank.

Example: Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.

Definition: First in time, order, or sequence.

Example: Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.

Definition: First in excellence, quality, or value.

Example: This is a prime location for a bookstore.

Definition: (lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).

Example: Thirteen is a prime number.

Definition: Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.

Definition: Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.

Definition: Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.

Definition: Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

Definition: Lecherous, lewd, lustful.

Phonetic: "/ɹɪb/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum

Definition: A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something

Definition: A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones

Definition: Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull

Definition: Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength

Definition: A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

Definition: A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth

Definition: The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf

Definition: A teasing joke

Definition: A single strand of hair.

Definition: A stalk of celery.

Definition: (archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.

Phonetic: "/ɹɪb/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.

Definition: To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.

Example: He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.

Definition: To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

Definition: To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).