principle
IPA: prˈɪnsʌpʌɫ
noun
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
- (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- A chemical compound within plant or animal tissue that is characteristic of it and more or less peculiar to it, such that it defines the character of that tissue from a human viewpoint (as for example nicotine in tobacco).
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- An original faculty or endowment.
- (obsolete) A beginning.
- Misspelling of principal. [(finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.]
verb
- (transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
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Examples of "principle" in Sentences
- It's the principle of parsimony.
- That is the principle of the guideline.
- The laws enmeshed him into the principle.
- It is part of the principle of indifference.
- He inveighed strongly against all rules and principles.
- Four principles form the guiding principles of the party.
- He proves the law of the lever by means of the principle of work.
- The punishment is permissible under the Qisas principle of sharia law.
- The WWF is much criticized by other, more principled environmental groups.
- The common principle of all analytical judgments is the law of contradiction.
- Ignorance about the creation that can't be overcome even in principle is agnosticism not atheism
- But it appears that Misubishi, at least in principle is commited to thinking slightly outside the box.
- The solution in principle is a weak dollar, which should provide export jobs somewhere in the US economy.
- The solution in principle is a weak dollar, which should provide export jobs somewhere in the US economy ….
- Why, in principle, is it not possible to distinguish between natural phenomenon and a directed event in designating a most plausible cause?
- However, the key difference in principle is whether the people ` s liberty should be sacrificed to this end (despite scant evidence it provides the means).
- And I commented before that all the practical objections you raise are right, and any kind of "pure" national consumption tax of the sort I am discussing in principle is impossible in practice.
- Douglas sometimes says that all the States (and it is part of this same proposition I have been discussing) that have become free have become so upon his great principle; that the State of Illinois itself came into the Union as a Slave State, and that the people, upon the great principle of Popular Sovereignty, have since made it a Free State.