Crossword-Solution: PRIMING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Priming | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Prime |
| Priming | n. | The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm. |
| Priming | n. | The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface. |
| Priming | n. | The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “PRIMING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of making something ready | 1 answer |
| Applying a first coat of paint | 1 answer |
| drilling | 9 answers |
| Pharmaceutical | 24 answers |
| seminar | 26 answers |
| sorting | 31 answers |
| Offing | 34 answers |
| pedagogy | 36 answers |
| ___ processing | 36 answers |
| preparative | 39 answers |
| devising | 43 answers |
| preliminaries | 44 answers |
| preparing | 46 answers |
| Potion | 46 answers |
| Prescription __ | 47 answers |
| Orchestration | 51 answers |
| ___ progression | 51 answers |
| premeditation | 54 answers |
| provision | 57 answers |
| Preparation | 58 answers |
| policy | 61 answers |
| precaution | 62 answers |
| investigating | 64 answers |
| Organisation | 65 answers |
| Outlook | 71 answers |
| Practice | 75 answers |
| Procedure | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIMING (5)
Drought and power supply problems hampered production, while inadequate revenues prevented government pump priming.
What's the manual, sergeant, eh? Cock your firelock--look to your priming--present your firelock--eh, sergeant? Oh, Jimini, I've broke your musket in halves!" "That's all right, sir," cried the gunner laughing.
The Captain, having re-examined the priming of the pistols, placed one of them in the hand of Fitzgerald.--M'Donough inquired whether the parties were prepared, and having been answered in the affirmative, he proceeded to give the word, 'Ready.' Fitzgerald raised his hand, but almost instantly lowered it again.
The shot was succeeded by the hiss of the cannon's priming, then the blaze and the crashing thunder of the monstrous gun burst upon the savages with such deafening roar that it seemed as if their very mountains had been rent asunder.
How Jeremy prayed for an Exmoor fog (such as he had often sworn at), that he might turn aside and lurk, while his pursuers went past him! But no fog came, nor even a storm to damp the priming of their guns; neither was wood or coppice nigh, nor any place to hide in; only hills, and moor, and valleys; with flying shadows over them, and great banks of snow in the corners.
Quotes with PRIMING (3)
I feel claimed and bonded to him like animals do. I feel like I've already been caught and trapped and he's merely priming me, leaving me to simmer in my juices, anxiously waiting for the moment when he takes his first bite of me.
By priming your subconscious mind you are allowing it to run in the background, and that way you are actually sending out positive thoughtforms from your subconscious in the waking state!
Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable permanence that paintings in museums do. There is a small crack in the lower left, and a little of the priming between the wooden panel and the oil emulsions of paint has been bared. A bit of abrasion shows, at the rim of a bowl of berries, evidence of time’s power even over this — which, paradoxically, only seems to increase its poetry, its…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).