Principal vs Great - What's the difference?
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Primary; most important.
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(obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
(finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
* 1902 , William Pember Reeves, State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand , Volume 1, 2011, Cambridge University Press,
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(North America, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
* 1971 , Louis Kaplan, Education and Mental Health ,
* 2008 , Brian Dive, The Accountable Leader: Developing Effective Leadership Through Managerial Accountability ,
* 2009 , Colin J. Marsh, Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum ,
* 2011 , U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook 2011-2012 ,
(UK, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
* 1967 , University of Edinburgh Graduates? Association, University of Edinburgh Journal , Volumes 23-24,
(legal) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one?s behalf.
* 1958 , American Law Institute. Restatement of the Law, Second: Agency 2d'', Volume 7 ,
* 1966 , Pan American Union, The Marketing Structure for Selected Processed Food Products: In Sweden, Denmark, Norway, The Federal Republic of Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom ,
* 2009 , California Continuing Education of the Bar, California Probate Code ,
(legal) The primary participant in a crime.
* 1915 , Eugene Allen Gilmore, Wiliam Charles Wermuth, Modern American Law ,
A company represented by a salesperson.
(senseid) (North America) A partner or owner of a business.
(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
(architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
Very big, large scale.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:He doth object I am too great of birth.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
Title referring to an important leader.
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Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
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Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.
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(lb) Pregnant; large with young.
*(Bible), (Psalms) lxxviii. 71
*:the ewes great with young
More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:We have all / Great' cause to give ' great thanks.
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Intimate; familiar.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:those that are so great with him
Expression of gladness and content about something.
sarcastic inversion thereof.
A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
A course of academic study devoted to the works of such persons and also known as Literae Humaniores ; the "Greats" name has official status with respect to 's program and is widely used as a colloquialism in reference to similar programs elsewhere.
(music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
very well (in a very satisfactory manner)
Principal is a related term of great.
As an adjective principal
is principal, main.As a verb great is
.principal
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Alternative forms
* principall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Smith is the principal architect of this design.
- The principal cause of the failure was poor planning.
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- In a word, the Epi?odes of Homer'' are complete Epi?odes; they are proper to the ?ubject, because they are drawn from the ground of the fable; they are ?o joined to the principal''' action, that one is the nece??ary con?equence of the other, either truly or probably: and la?tly, they are imperfect members which do not make a complete and fini?hed body; for an Epi?ode that makes a complete action, cannot be part of a ' principal action; as is e??ential to all Epi?odes.
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- The principal treasure of ths department, however, is the Stele of Hammurabi (1792—1750 B.C.), king of the first Babylonian kingdom, a basalt cylinder 2.25m/7ft 5in. inscribed with Hammurabi?s laws written in Akkadian in cuneiform script.
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- In theory, there are the same number of principal' components as there are variables, but in practice, usually only a few of the ' principal components need to be identified to account for most of the data variance.
- (Spenser)
Usage notes
Principal'' should not be confused with principle. ''Principle'' is always a noun, which is sometimes erroneously used with the meaning of the adjective ''principal . * Incorrect: He is the principle musician in the band * Correct: He is the principal musician in the band A mnemonic to avoid this confusion is "The principal'' alphabetic ''principle'' places ''A'' before ''E ". Principal'' is generally not used in the comparative or superlative in formal writing, as the meaning is already superlative. However, one may occasionally see, e.g., ''more principal'' meaning ''more likely to be principal'' or ''more nearly principal . There are similar issues with unique.Synonyms
* (primary) chief, main, primaryNoun
- A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal , and the rest covers interest.
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- In March 1902, I find in the statement of liabilities and assets £711 put down as arrears of interest, but there is no entry of arrears of principal .
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- For instance, in some states, dividends that have automatically been reinvested will be treated as principal .
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- If you know the principal amount, the interest rate, and the number of years the payments will be made, you can consult an amortization calculator or schedule to arrive at the monthly payment.
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- The important administrative figure to the teacher is the school principal .
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- The problem was neatly summed up by one principal in Australia who said recently: ‘There is no incentive for me to develop my best teachers to become my successor.’
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- Now renamed Teaching Australia, its officers are undertaking exploratory steps in developing professional standards for school leaders. A National Standards Drafting Group of volunteer principals' is currently drafting ' principal standards (Teaching Australia, 2007).
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- Principals are now being held more accountable for the performance of students and teachers, while at the same time they are required to adhere to a growing number of government regulations.
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- Unlike the students, Principal' Robertson, who now resided almost alone in the College, continued to use the accistomed route on his visits to the Old Town; and it “became the joke of the day that from being the principal gate it had become only a gate for the ' Principal .”5
- ''When an attorney represents a client, the client is the principal who permits the attorney, the client?s agent, to act on the client?s behalf.
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- The firm admitted the amount owed, but averred as an affirmative defense that it had hired the expert as an agent of a disclosed principal , the client.
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- A food broker has been defined as an independent sales agent who performs the services of negotiating the sale of food and/or grocery products for and on account of the seller as principal .
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- An attorney-in-fact has a duty to act solely in yhe interest of the principal and to avoid conflicts of interest.
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- The accessories may be prosecuted, tried and punished, though the principal has not been prosecuted or has been acquitted.
- My principal sells metal shims.
- (Spenser)
Usage notes
Principal'' should not be confused with principle. They are both nouns, but ''principle'' means "moral rule", while ''principal may refer to a person or entity. * Incorrect: He is the principle of our school * Correct: He is the principal of our schoolSynonyms
* (original money invested or loaned) * (school administrator) headmaster, headmistress * (chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college) dean * (one under whose direction and on whose behalf an agent acts) client * (company represented by a salesperson) * (primary participant in a crime) ringleader * (owner of or partner in a business) proprietor * (organ stop) diapasonCoordinate terms
* (original money invested or loaned) interest * (school administrator) master, mistress * (chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college) bursar * (primary participant in a crime) accessorySee also
* PITI payment * prince * principality * principle ----great
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(wikipedia great)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like // Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Usage notes
In simple situations, using modifiers of intensity such as fairly'', ''somewhat , etc. can lead to an awkward construction, with the exception of certain common expressions such as “so great” and “really great”. In particular “very great” is unusually strong as a reaction, and in many cases “great” or its meaning of “very good” will suffice.Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* great big * great chamber * great hall * great room * greatly * greatnessInterjection
(en interjection)- Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.
- Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.
Noun
(en noun)- Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.
- Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.
Adverb
(-)- Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened.