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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
secondary
1. the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
• Hypernyms:
formation
• Member Holonyms:
football team, eleven
• Member Meronyms:
back
2. coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
• Syn:
secondary coil, secondary winding
• Hypernyms:
coil
• Part Holonyms:
transformer
1. being of second rank or importance or value;
not direct or immediate (Freq. 11)
- the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher
- a secondary source
- a secondary issue
- secondary streams
• Ant:
primary
• Similar to:
alternate, alternative, substitute, auxiliary, subsidiary,
supplemental, supplementary, collateral, indirect, secondhand, second-string,
standby, thirdhand, tributary, utility, vicarious
• See Also:
inessential, unessential, unoriginal
2. inferior in rank or status
- the junior faculty
- a lowly corporal
- petty officialdom
- a subordinate functionary
• Syn:
junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern
• Similar to:
junior
• Derivationally related forms:
subaltern (for: subaltern), pettiness (for: petty)
3. depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
- a secondary infection
• Similar to:
incidental, incident
4. not of major importance
- played a secondary role in world events
• Similar to:
minor
5. belonging to a lower class or rank
• Similar to:
subordinate, low-level
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