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Meanings of secondary in English
Being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate.
Coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil.
Inferior in rank or status.
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Examples for "inferior"
Examples for "inferior"
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This however depends on other results due to their inferior goal difference.
2
Other problems frequently cited include external weapons and an inferior outdated engine.
3
The energistic effect downgraded their electronic systems to a woefully inferior state.
4
No general system existed; the masters were very inferior and ill paid.
5
Now in the physical order the inferior is moved by the superior.
1
Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said the group were playing petty politics.
2
Which was true, of course, and petty of me to bring up.
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I don't have time to resolve these petty family squabbles right now.
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Oppression, daily petty harassment and humiliation are the breeding ground for violence.
5
The provost, however, had never wasted his time with such petty artifice.
1
They must be subordinate always to the general motive of the play.
2
Servants and subordinate agents in England are quite unmanageable in these respects.
3
The monks are only in an ecclesiastical sense subordinate to the abbot.
4
So far in relation to the rights and privileges of subordinate lodges.
5
An Army general isn't just accused of sexually assaulting a female subordinate.
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Niryn did not regret his lowly birth; quite the opposite, in fact.
2
She would soon forget that night in London with her lowly lieutenant.
3
Their first aim was lowly; and the way gradually opened before them.
4
Give wisdom to the simple this day, and understanding to the lowly.
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She had learnt also the lowly and self-denying faith in common chances.
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He returned abruptly to the subaltern officer and the regiment in Canada.
2
The subaltern went along the verandah to the door and tried it.
3
The blood seems to be boiling in my head, gasped the subaltern.
4
The new subaltern of A Battery suddenly lowered himself into the pit.
5
His heart beat at one with the heart of the junior subaltern.
1
That ought to make him at least a junior-grade military genius.
2
Harried noncoms and junior-grade officers buzzed everywhere, failing miserably to bring order to the chaos.
1
Sources from both sides said negotiations among lower-ranking officials would continue on Wednesday.
2
One of the lower-ranking officers on the bridge gasped, eyes widening.
3
It led to more prosecutions against lower-ranking individuals in the Nazi death machine.
4
Leaderwolves usually wait for lower-ranking wolves to come to them.
5
The restructuring plan anticipates EFIH will emerge from bankruptcy owned by lower-ranking unsecured creditors.
Usage of secondary in English
1
Question: My daughter is 14 and in second year of secondary school.
2
Today we accept free primary and secondary education as a national birth-right.
3
It also wants to extend health services in all public secondary schools.
4
There is also a secondary problem -how to add new services.
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A senior industry official said the cost was likely to be secondary.
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However, a macropulse of long pulse duration leads to undesirable secondary effects.
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PROBLEM: I am a principal of a large Dublin boys' secondary school.
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Fewer students every year learn a foreign language at our secondary schools.
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He's currently a full-time secondary school teacher, working with special needs children.
10
Netherlands-based exchange Climex launched a secondary market in JI credits last year.
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The government must still draw up secondary legislation to implement the reform.
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A large effect of water deficit on fruit secondary metabolism was observed.
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This priority list includes health settings both in primary and secondary care.
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Stores are sold out, so of course there's a secondary market emerging.
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Education once took a fairly linear route: primary, secondary, college and work.
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A secondary conflict puts all of them at war with Islamic State.
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