
first
adj 1: preceding all others in time or space or degree; "the first
house on the right"; "the first day of spring"; "his
first political race"; "her first baby"; "the first
time"; "the first meetings of the new party"; "the
first phase of his training" [ant: {last}, {intermediate}]
2: indicating the beginning unit in a series [syn: {1st}]
3: serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue";
"the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory
step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in
Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: {inaugural},
{initiative}, {initiatory}, {maiden}]
4: serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the
first verse" [syn: {beginning(a)}]
5: ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the
foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate"
[syn: {foremost}, {world-class}]
6: highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or
instruments or orchestra sections; "first soprano"; "the
first violin section"; "played first horn" [ant: {second}]
7: being the gear producing the lowest drive speed; "use first
gear on steep hills" [syn: {low}]
n 1: the first or highest in an ordering or series; "He wanted to
be the first" [syn: {number one}]
2: the first element in a countable series; "the first of the
month" [syn: {number one}, {number 1}]
3: the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got
an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the
man for her" [syn: {beginning}, {commencement}, {outset},
{get-go}, {start}, {kickoff}, {starting time}, {showtime},
{offset}] [ant: {middle}, {end}]
4: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who
is stationed at first base [syn: {first base}]
5: an honours degree of the highest class [syn: {first-class
honours degree}]
6: the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor
vehicle; used to start a car moving [syn: {first gear}, {low
gear}, {low}]
adv 1: before anything else; "first we must consider the garter
snake" [syn: {firstly}, {foremost}, {first of all}, {first
off}]
2: the initial time; "when Felix first saw a garter snake"
[syn: {for the first time}]
3: before another in time, space, or importance; "I was here
first"; "let's do this job first"
4: prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost" [syn: {foremost}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0
FIRST
ForschungsInstitut fuer Rechnerarchitektur und SoftwareTechnik (org.,
GMD, Berlin, Germany)
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FIRST
Forum of Incident Response and SecuriTy (org., NIST)
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