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 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 of the superhumans in Marvel's Earth owe their powers to the Celestials, cosmic entities who visited Earth millions of years ago and experimented on our prehistoric ancestors ( a process they also carried out on several other planets ).

Most galactic cosmic rays have energies too low to penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, and the radii of their helical trajectories in the Earth's magnetic field tends to channel them to the poles.

Most of these galaxy-spanning domains depend on some form of transportation capable of quickly or instantly crossing vast cosmic distances ( usually measured in light-years ), many times faster than could photons at light speed.

Most of their energy is spent repairing cell damage caused by cosmic rays or racemization, and very little is available for reproduction or growth.

As Frans Lemaire has written, " Most of the time, the words present themselves as a murmured complaint or an insistent supplication, as opposed to the cosmic indifference of the music ".

Most of Laffoley's pieces are painted on large canvases and combine words and imagery to depict a spiritual architecture of explanation, tackling concepts like dimensionality, time travel through hacking relativity, connecting conceptual threads shared by philosophers through the millennia, and theories about the cosmic origins of mankind.

Most in the universe is thought to be formed by cosmic ray nucleosynthesis from cosmic ray spallation in the period between the Big Bang and the formation of the solar system.

Most likely, the name comes from the perceived resemblance that some of the flowers bear to the sun and its rays, and in fact a species of Solanum ( Solanum nigrum ) is known as the " sunberry ".

Most of this energy is released in gamma rays, although some GRBs have extremely luminous optical counterparts as well.

Most sharks, rays and skates ( Elasmobranchii ) have small brain-to-body ratios, but the ratio is relatively high in manta rays and the closely related Mobula rays.

Most myliobatoids are demersal, but some, such as the pelagic stingray and the eagle rays, are pelagic.

Most cases are caused by over-exposure to UV rays from the sun or sunbeds .< ref > Non-melanoma skin cancers are the most common skin cancers.

Most starfish typically have five rays or arms, which radiate from a central disc.

Most of the Talmudic rabbis, and Josephus, following the belief that Urim meant lights, argued that divination by Urim and Thummim involved questions being answered by great rays of light shining out of certain jewels on the breastplate ; each jewel was taken to represent different letters, and the sequence of lighting thus would spell out an answer ( though there were 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and only 12 jewels on the breastplate ); two Talmudic rabbis, however, argued that the jewels themselves moved in a way that made them stand out from the rest, or even moved themselves into groups to form words.

Most tanning beds emit mainly UVA rays — which may increase the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Most tanning beds use bulbs with the same UVB relative to UVA rays as the Sun and produce the same levels of vitamin D. High pressure tanning equipment, however, has a much lower ratio of UVB to UVA, and is much less effective for this purpose.

Most aging of skin is due to UVA rays destroying collagen and connective tissue beneath the superficial layer of the skin.

Most sunless tanning products do not contain sunscreen, therefore, they do not provide any protection against ultraviolet rays when the person is outdoors.

Most radioactive sources produce gamma rays of various energies and intensities.

Most Shan have a phobia of sunlight because the electromagnetic frequency of the Sun's rays poisons their metabolism.