primer

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  1. noun An elementary textbook for teaching children to read.
  2. noun A book that covers the basic elements of a subject.
  3. noun A cap or tube containing a small amount of explosive used to detonate the main explosive charge of a firearm or mine.
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  • The T7-primer is a source of experimental bias and introduces variability between microarray platforms. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The Great Eight is more like a primer -- a place to start, not stop, your investigation of the Triangle's bustling local scene. —  NewsObserver.com - Home
  • Instead of lessons from a grade-school primer, the chalk writing now addresses the day-to-day operations of the Milltown Fire Department which has made the stately, clapboard structure its home since 1911. —  Home News Tribune - News
  • Though I imagine many Baseball Analysts readers do not need this primer, here are definitions of the latter two statistics from —  Baseball Analysts
  • And then, spray paint primer is the DIY gods best friend. —  Apartment Therapy Main
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  1. Middle English, devotional manual, from Norman French, from Medieval Latin prīmārium, from neuter of prīmārius, first, from Latin, from prīmus; see prime.

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  1. Formerly also primmer; from Middle English primer, prymer, n., from Old French primer, primier, premier, French premier = Spanish primero = Portuguese primeiro = Italian primiero, first (cf. later F. primaire = Spanish Portuguese Italian primario, first, elementary), from Latin primarius, of the first, primary: see primary. Cf. premier, doublet of primer.
  2. from prime, v., + -er.
 

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