Most online dictionaries list a pejorative meaning as the primary definition before a neutral one, though Merriam-Webster lists the neutral one first.

Most frogs identify prey by movement, and vision appears to be the primary method by which the cane toad detects prey ; however, the cane toad can also locate food using its sense of smell.

Most cement kilns today use coal and petroleum coke as primary fuels, and to a lesser extent natural gas and fuel oil.

Although the Chinese and Indian communities could maintain their own Chinese and Tamil-language primary schools, all their students were required to learn Malay, and to study an agreed “ Malayan curriculum .” Most importantly, the entry exam to the University of Malaya ( which moved from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in 1963 ) would be conducted in Malay, even though most teaching at the university was in English until the 1970s.

Most Agorists consider that property rights are natural rights deriving from the primary right of self-ownership.

Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary lung cancers, are carcinomas that derive from epithelial cells.

Most organisms then process the pre-mRNA ( also known as a primary transcript ) using various forms of Post-transcriptional modification to form the mature mRNA, which is then used as a template for protein synthesis by the ribosome.

Most modern theorists agree that both are important with aggregate behavior being primarily determined by traits and situational factors being the primary predictor of behavior in the short term.

Most modern armies deploy anti tank guided missiles ( ATGM ) as their primary infantry anti-tank weapon, but the RPG still remains a potent threat to armored vehicles, especially in situations such as urban warfare or jungle warfare, where they are favored by guerrillas.

Most later Western scholars, such as Bradley ( 1997 ) and La Polla ( 2003 ) have retained Matisoff's two primary branches, though differing in the details of Tibeto-Burman.

Most single episode seizures are managed by primary care physicians ( emergency or general practitioners ), whereas investigation and management of ongoing epilepsy is usually done by neurologists.

Most patients who are diagnosed at a hospital's emergency department as having suffered from a TIA will be discharged home and advised to contact their primary physician to organize further investigations.

Most of the other northern tribes sided with the French, their primary trading partner and supplier of arms.

Most primary schools already end with grade 4 ( age 10 years ) but some have grades 5 and 6 ( age 11 and 12 years, respectively ); the change between different school types, and thus tracks, remains possible throughout the school years.

Most major classes of predatory and parasitic arthropods contain species that eat pollen, despite the common perception that bees are the primary pollen-consuming arthropod group.

Most high explosive bombs consist of an insensitive secondary explosive that must be detonated with a blasting cap containing a more sensitive primary explosive.

Most primary cosmic rays ( those that enter the atmosphere from deep space ) are composed of familiar stable subatomic particles that normally occur on Earth, such as protons, atomic nuclei, or electrons.

Most other species are more restricted in their habitat, with several species being restricted to undisturbed primary forest.

Most of the primary sources treating Photios's life are written by persons hostile to him.

Most government high schools have compulsory policies, although it is sometimes less enforced in primary schools that have uniforms.

Most of these rivers flow from east to west disgorging in the Atlantic ; from north to south, the primary rivers are the Minho, Douro, Tagus and the Guadiana.

Most Belizeans travel the country using public buses as their primary form of transportation.

Most such " primary " ( or " primitive ") J words serve as mathematical symbols, with the dot or colon extending the meaning of the basic characters available.

Most Centaurs launched on Atlas have excess propellants, ranging from hundreds to thousands of pounds, which could be used for " rideshare " experiments flown as secondary payloads conducted after separation of the primary spacecraft.

Most joysticks are designed to be operated with the user's primary hand ( e. g. with the right hand of a right-handed person ), with the base either held in the opposite hand or mounted on a desk.

Most such printed sources have been updated for intervals of only about every fifty years ( e. g., J1900, J1950, J2000 ).

Most early sources in the West that examine the art of acting (, hypokrisis ) discuss it as part of rhetoric.

Most current sources list O ' Neill's 1887 average as. 435, as calculated by omitting his walks.

Most people have a strong intuition that some animals, such as dogs, are conscious, while others, such as insects, are not ; but the sources of this intuition are not obvious.

Most ancient sources categorize the Cimbri as a Germanic tribe, but some ancient authors include the Cimbri among the Celts.

The most notable difference is the number of its heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads ; others show it with two or even just one ; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50 or even 100.

Most DJ mixers now include a beat-counter which analyzes the tempo of an incoming sound source and displays its tempo in Beats Per Minute ( BPM ), which may assist with beatmatching analog sound sources.

Most sources credit St. Louis University's Bradbury Robinson from Bellevue, Ohio with throwing the first legal forward pass.

Most modern scholars agree that Luke used the Gospel of Mark as one of his sources.

Most sources that we do have available come from United States agencies such as the Agency for International Development ( USAID ).

Most sources agree that the chief method of philosophy is logical, rational, critical enquiry and argument " of a more or less systematic kind.

Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations ( sometimes deliberate ) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power.

Most modern potatoes grown in North America arrived through European settlement and not independently from the South American sources.

Most Roman sources name Servius ' mother as Ocrisia, a young noblewoman taken at the Roman siege of Corniculum and brought to Rome, either pregnant by her husband, who was killed at the siege: or as a virgin.

Most studies of historical smuggling have been based on official sources — such as court records, or the letters of Revenue Officers.

Most sources agree that Tizoc took power in 1481 ( the Aztec year " 2 House "), succeeding his older brother.

Most modern historians accept the claim of the Muslim sources that after the revolt, the Jewish tribes became clients of the Aus and the Khazraj.

Most sources credit the discovery of gunpowder to Chinese alchemists in the 9th century searching for an elixir of immortality.

Most of the world's rivers are fed from mountain sources, and more than half of humanity depends on mountains for water.

Most Czech sources since the 19th century — encyclopedias, general histories, materials of the University itself — prefer to give 1348 as the year of the founding of the university, rather than 1347 or 1349.

Most linguists look to Dutch sources, noting the extensive interaction between the colonial Dutch in New Netherland ( now largely New York State, New Jersey, Delaware and western Connecticut ) and the colonial English in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut.

Most modern historians and reference works say Gediminas ' wife was Jewna, dismissing Vida and Olga as fictitious, since no sources other than this chronicle mention the other two wives.

Most sources of time and celestial coordinate system standards use UT1 as the default meaning of UT, though occasionally UTC may be implied.

Most sources of these are synthetic radioisotopes.