0 past simple and past participle of prime
1 to tell someone something that will prepare them for a particular situation:
Therefore, the difference in the dehydration and rehydration paths was much higher in control seeds compared to primed seeds.
The "poisoned gems" send her into a state of hysterical nervous shock because she is already primed internally by apparitions signifying her remorse.
By this technique 270 seeds (corresponding to 135 primed seeds and 135 untreated seeds) were individually analysed.
None the less, these data do not support the hypothesis that oligosaccharide loss is responsible for the reduced longevity of primed seeds.
The methods applied to obtain primed seeds without loss of longevity are very similar to those used to induce desiccation tolerance in germinated seeds.
It is not clear whether the methods described here are able to improve longevity in primed seeds of every species.
The classifier compares incoming live sound to the 'primed' log file, which selects pre-composed sound most closely matching the incoming information.
A separate audio classifier is 'primed' with analysis data from these precomposed sounds (see section 9 below).
