Secondary

['sek(ə)nd(ə)rɪ] or ['sɛkəndɛri]

解释:

(noun.) the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen.

(adj.) belonging to a lower class or rank .

(adj.) not of major importance; 'played a secondary role in world events' .

(adj.) being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; 'the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher'; 'a secondary source'; 'a secondary issue'; 'secondary streams' .

(adj.) depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; 'a secondary infection' .

整理:莱缪尔--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

(a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

(a.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.

(a.) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

(a.) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.

(a.) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.

(n.) One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.

(n.) A secondary circle.

(n.) A satellite.

(n.) A secondary quill.

杰瑞德校对

同义词及近义词：

a. Subordinate, inferior, not primary, not first-rate, not of the first order.

德怀特手打

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Subordinate, inferior, minor, unimportant, resultant, induced

ANT:Primary, leading, Important, prominent

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