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By Cindy Sui BBC News, Taipei Six weeks ahead of Taiwan's presidential poll, three main candidates are primed to contest what is set to be a closely-watched race in the young democracy. The island is at a crossroads in its relations with its rival, ...

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Never have the media been so influential in determining the course of war as during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which, as far as the Western media are concerned, has essentially become a battle over images and ideas. Israel has already poured hundreds of millions of dollars into what in Hebrew is called hasbara, or information for the outside world (hence, propaganda). This has included an entire range of efforts: lunches and free trips for influential journalists; seminars for Jewish university students who over a week in a secluded country estate can be primed to "defend" Israel on the campus; bombarding congressmen and -women with invitations and visits; pamphlets and, most important, money for election campaigns; directing (or, as the case requires, harassing) photographers and writers of the current Intifada into producing certain images and not others; lecture and concert tours by prominent Israelis; training commentators to make frequent references to the Holocaust and Israel's predicament today; many advertisements in the newspapers attacking Arabs and praising Israel; and on and on. Because so many powerful people in the media and publishing business are strong supporters of Israel, the task is made vastly easier.

Hazard: Fuel can leak from the generator's carburetor, posing a fire hazard.

completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress.

Primed - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com

prime

v., primed, prim·ing, primes. v.tr.

1. To make ready; prepare: guard dogs primed for attack.
2. To prepare (a gun or mine) for firing by inserting a charge of gunpowder or a primer.
3. To prepare for operation, as by pouring water into a pump or gasoline into a carburetor.
4. To prepare (a surface) for painting by covering with size, primer, or an undercoat.
5. To inform or instruct beforehand; coach.

v.intr.
To become prepared for future action or operation.

prime

adjective

• 1of first importance; main:a nurse’s prime concern is the well-being of the patient
• from which another thing may derive or proceed:Diogenes' conclusion that air is the prime matter

• 2 [attributive] of the best possible quality; excellent:prime cuts of meat
• having all the typical characteristics of something:the novel is a prime example of the genre
• most suitable or likely:any hospital with high costs is a prime candidate for closure

• 3 Mathematics (of a number) divisible only by itself and unity (e.g. 2, 3, 5, 7, 11).
• [predic.] (of two or more numbers in relation to each other) having no common factor but unity: a congruence whose modulus is a number prime to b

noun

• 1 [in singular] the state or time of greatest vigour or success in a person’s life:you’re in the prime of life he wasn’t elderly, but clearly past his prime
• archaic the beginning of something:the prime of the world

• 2 Christian Church a service forming part of the Divine Office of the Western Church, traditionally said at the first hour of the day (i.e. 6 a.m.), but now little used.

• 3a prime number.

• 4 Printing a symbol (ʹ) written after a letter or symbol as a distinguishing mark or after a figure as a symbol for minutes or feet.

• 5 Fencing the first of eight parrying positions, used to protect the upper inside of the body, with the sword hand at head height in pronation and the tip of the blade pointing downwards.

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• 6a special section in a cycle race, attracting a special prize.

Derivatives

primeness

noun

Origin:

Old English prīm (in prime¹ (sense 2 of the noun)), from Latin prima (hora) 'first (hour)', reinforced in Middle English by Old French prime; the adjective dates from late Middle English, via Old French from Latin primus 'first'

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1 …を準備［用意］する(prepare).

2 〈火器に〉火薬を詰める；〈火薬・地雷などに〉導火線をつける.

3 〈ポンプに〉呼び水を差す；〈シリンダー・気化器に〉ガソリンを入れる.

4 〈壁などを〉下塗りする.

5 〈人に〉予備知識を与える, 入れ知恵する；〈人に〉（情報などを）（あらかじめ）与える((with ...)).

6 …に（飲食物を）たっぷり与える((with ...)).

carburetor, ((主に英))-rettor[car・bu・re・tor, ((主に英))-ret・tor]

 

• 発音記号[kɑ'ːrbərèitər | -bjurètə]
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[名]（エンジンなどの）気化器, キャブレター.