Commanding and Primary

commanding

Be in command of.
- usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
- synonyms: command
Make someone do something.
- synonyms: command, require
Demand as one's due.
- usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
- synonyms: command
Look down on.
- usage: "The villa dominates the town"
- synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
Exercise authoritative control or power over.
- usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
- synonyms: control, command

Used of a height or viewpoint.
- usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
- synonyms: dominating, overlooking

(a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
(a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
(a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

primary

A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen.
- synonyms: primary election
One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.
- synonyms: primary feather, primary quill
Astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it. (
Coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit.
- usage: "current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil"
- synonyms: primary coil, primary winding

Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary.
- usage: "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest"
Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic.
- usage: "a primary instinct"
Most important element.
- usage: "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch"
- synonyms: chief, main, principal, master
Of or being the essential or basic part.
- usage: "an elementary need for love and nurturing"
- synonyms: elementary, elemental
Of primary importance.
- synonyms: basal

(a.) Earliest formed; fundamental.
(n.) That which stands first in order, rank or importance; a chief matter.
(a.) First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
(n.) A primary meeting; a caucus.
(a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
(a.) First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
(a.) Illustrating, possessing or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
(n.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.
(n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary