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Meaning of प्रधान in English

  • Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.
  • Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.
  • Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.
  • A sovereign medicine or remedy.
  • A magistral line.
  • Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
  • Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
  • First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister.
  • Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.
  • The first minister of state; the prime minister.
  • Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance.
  • First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
  • First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.
  • First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.
  • Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
  • Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
  • Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.
  • The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.
  • The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.
  • That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.
  • The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.
  • The first of the chief guards.
  • 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.
  • A prime number. See under Prime, a.
  • An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1.
  • To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
  • To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.
  • To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.
  • To trim or prune, as trees.
  • To mark with a prime mark.
  • To be renewed, or as at first.
  • To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
  • To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.
  • A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
  • Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
  • The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
  • The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
  • Unmanufactured material; raw material.
  • The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
  • A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
  • A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
  • A small pit.
  • A district granted to an abbey.
  • Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
  • Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
  • Fit to be sold; marketable.
  • Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
  • To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
  • Elementary.

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