primary medium

collocation in English

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primary
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us
/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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medium
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmiː.di.əm/us
/ˈmiː.di.əm/
a method or way of ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandmediumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I am trying to gain a clearer phenomenological appreciation of the fact that sound was a moreprimarymediumthan print.
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For turntablists there is no oneprimarymedium, no one network of social conventions through which aesthetic credibility is conferred and artistic success confirmed.
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Although theatre, unlike painting, features the human body as itsprimarymedium, it is still an aesthetic construct whose elements can never be completely 'real'.
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By this time paper had become theprimarymediumfor writing (though government offices continued to use bamboo slips).
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A sketchbook was theprimarymediumfor recording the field studies and study tours which constituted the meat of the class.
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The former is theprimarymediumof musical speech (recitative); the latter implies the musically structured form of song.
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Herprimarymediumis photography, but her works are often exhibited as installations and considered sculptural.
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The use of a single prop was in keeping with using paint as aprimarymedium.
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During the 1950s, television became theprimarymediumfor molding public opinion.
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English is used as theprimarymediumof instruction at most private higher educational institutions.
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Early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch machines, as theprimarymediumfor input of both computer programs and data.
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Until the introduction of paper, the palm leaves remained as theprimarymediumfor creating, circulating and preserving written articles in the region.
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Hisprimarymediumis acrylic paint, and his paintings are hyper-realistic in detail, yet also extremely grotesque in their distortion.
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Acrylic was hisprimarymediumduring this period.
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The ceramic coin, made from clay and glazed in various colors, is theprimarymediumof exchange, worth about a hundredth of a gold piece.
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Hisprimarymediumwas watercolour but by the 1840s he was beginning to experiment with oils.
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The name came from the fact that photographic film (also called filmstock) has historically been theprimarymediumfor recording and displaying motion pictures.
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Dancing was theprimarymedium, and the production also used puppetry, especially during the wirewalking sequence.
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From the 1900s, into the 1950s, punched cards were theprimarymediumfor data entry, data storage, and processing in institutional computing.
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