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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
primitive
adj 1: belonging to an early stage of technical development;
characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the
crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early
man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living
conditions in the Appalachian mountains" [syn: crude,
primitive, rude]
2: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral
type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the
okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
[syn: archaic, primitive]
3: used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies;
"primitive societies"
4: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive
in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is
often colorful and striking" [syn: primitive, naive]
n 1: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
[syn: primitive, primitive person]
2: a mathematical expression from which another expression is
derived
3: a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms;
"`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Primitive \Prim"i*tive\, a. [L. primitivus, fr. primus the
first: cf. F. primitif. See Prime, a.]
1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early
times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as,
primitive innocence; the primitive church. "Our primitive
great sire." --Milton.
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2. Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned;
characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of
dress.
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3. Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive
verb in grammar.
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Primitive axes of coordinate (Geom.), that system of axes
to which the points of a magnitude are first referred,
with reference to a second set or system, to which they
are afterward referred.
Primitive chord (Mus.), that chord, the lowest note of
which is of the same literal denomination as the
fundamental base of the harmony; -- opposed to derivative.
--Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Primitive circle (Spherical Projection), the circle cut
from the sphere to be projected, by the primitive plane.
Primitive colors (Paint.), primary colors. See under
Color.
Primitive Fathers (Eccl.), the acknowledged Christian
writers who flourished before the Council of Nice, A. D.
325. --Shipley.
Primitive groove (Anat.), a depression or groove in the
epiblast of the primitive streak. It is not connected with
the medullary groove, which appears later and in front of
it.
Primitive plane (Spherical Projection), the plane upon
which the projections are made, generally coinciding with
some principal circle of the sphere, as the equator or a
meridian.
Primitive rocks (Geol.), primary rocks. See under
Primary.
Primitive sheath. (Anat.) See Neurilemma.
Primitive streak or Primitive trace (Anat.), an opaque
and thickened band where the mesoblast first appears in
the vertebrate blastoderm.
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Syn: First; original; radical; pristine; ancient; primeval;
antiquated; old-fashioned.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Primitive \Prim"i*tive\, n.
An original or primary word; a word not derived from another;
-- opposed to derivative.
[1913 Webster]
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4. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
primitive
A function, operator, or type which is
built into a programming language (or operating system),
either for speed of execution or because it would be
impossible to write it in the language. Primitives typically
include the arithmetic and logical operations (plus, minus,
and, or, etc.) and are implemented by a small number of
machine language instructions.
(1995-05-01)
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Thesaurus Results for primitive:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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