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Search results for ‘prime culprit’

English Dictionary (1-2 of 2)

prime
[praɪm]
  • 1. first in quality or value; first-rate
  • 2. fundamental; original
  • 3. first in importance, authority, etc; chief
  • 4. having no factors except itself or one
  • 5. having no common factors (with)
  • 6. having the best credit rating
  • 7. the time when a thing is at its best
  • 8. a period of power, vigour, etc, usually following youth (esp in the phrase the prime of life )
  • 9. the beginning of something, such as the spring
  • 10. short for prime number
  • 11. a semantically indivisible element; minimal component of...

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culprit
['k^lprɪt]
  • 1. a person awaiting trial, esp one who has pleaded not guilty
  • 2. the person responsible for a particular offence, misdeed, etc
  • 3. C17: from Anglo-French cul-, short for culpable guilty + prit ready, indicating that the prosecution was ready to prove the guilt of the one charged

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Examples (1-5 of 15)

the Prime Minister's media advisory advisory
the prime minister was in a bullish mood bullish
``When I am Prime Minister,'' he went on, ``we shall abolish taxes.'' go on
a line of prime ministers line
x2 + x + 3 is a prime polynomial prime