priming
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Definitions ofpriming
- To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
Example: "You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump."
- To apply a coat of primer paint to.
Example: "I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat."
- To be renewed.
- To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- (of a steam boiler) 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.
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
Example: "The boys are primed for mischief."
- To trim or prune.
Example: "to prime trees"
- To mark with a prime mark.
- The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
- A substance used as a primer.
- The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
- The first coating of colour, size, etc. laid on canvas, or on a building or other surface.
- The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.
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