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principle
- /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ Australia, Canada, US, UK
- [ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pɫ̩] Australia, Canada, US, UK
- /ˈpɹɪn.sə.pəl/ Australia, Canada, US, UK
- [ˈpɹɪn.sə.pɫ̩] Australia, Canada, US, UK
Sounds like principal
Where it comes from
From Middle English principle, from Old French principe, from Latin prīncipium (“beginning, foundation”), from prīnceps (“first”). By surface analysis, prīmus (“first”) + -ceps (“catcher”); the former ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before”); see also prince.
noun principles
- A fundamental assumption, fundamental law or guiding belief. We need some sort of principles to reason from.
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem. The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.
- Moral rule or aspect. I don't doubt your principles.
- A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied. Bernoulli's principle
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality. Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle.
- 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). the active principle
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. The soul of man is an active principle.
- An original faculty or endowment. those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering
- Misspelling of principal.principal
- A beginning. Doubting sad end of principle unsound.
verb principles · principling · principled
- To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct. Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.
