Prime

Definition

prime 1 /praÇm/ adj ၁။ အဓိက။ အေရးႀကီးဆံုး။ အေျခခံ။ Her prime motive was personal ambition. ❍ My prime concern is to protect my property. ❍ It is a matter of prime importance. ❍ The prime cause of the trouble was bad management. ❍ He's a prime suspect in the case. ၂။ အေကာင္းဆံုး။ ထိပ္တန္း။ prime (cuts of) beef ❍ a prime site for development. ၃။ စံျပ။ စံခ်ိန္။ That's a prime example of what I was talking about. ❏ prime minister n ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္။ ❏ prime mover n ဦးေဆာင္သူ။ အဓိကစြမ္းအား။ အဓိက စြမ္းအားရွင္။ He believes that economic factors are the prime movers of change. ❏ prime number n ( mathematics ) သုဒၶကိန္း။ ❏ prime time n [U] (ထုတ္လႊင့္မႈ) ၾကည့္႐ႈနားဆင္သည့္ ပရိသတ္အမ်ားဆံုး အခ်ိန္။ (in broadcasting) prime-time advertising/shows/television. prime 2 /praÇm/ n [sing] အရြယ္ေကာင္း။ be in the prime of life/youth ❍ When is a man in his prime? ❍ She is past her prime. prime 3 /praÇm/ v ၁။ အသင့္ျပင္သည္။ prime a fuse ❍ The bomb was primed, ready to explode. ၂။ ေအာက္ခံေဆးသုတ္ သည္၊ မႈတ္သည္။ ၃။ ~ sb (with sth) သိသင့္သိထိုက္သည္ကို အသင့္ရွာေပးထားသည္။ သင္ေပးထားသည္။ The witness had been primed by a lawyer. ❍ The new manager was clearly well primed with information before he arrived. ❏ prime the pump [ IDM ] လုပ္ငန္း ရွင္သန္သြက္လက္ လာရန္ “ခ်ဴဆီ” အျဖစ္ ေငြအရင္းအႏီွး ထပ္ထည့္ေပးသည္။ See also PUMP PRIMING

Examples

1. Our prime concern was the safety of our customers.
2. Truman had been the prime architect of the NATO alliance.
3. A prime force behind international terrorism
4. A prime location for a business park
5. Prime beef
6. A prime example of 1930s architecture
7. The prime suspect in a murder case
8. [prime target/candidate] : The couple became prime targets for press criticism.