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principal | law |

As an adjective principal

is principal, main.

As a proper noun law is

or law can be , perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound or law can be (judaism) the torah.

principal

English

Alternative forms

* principall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Primary; most important.
    • Smith is the principal architect of this design.
    The principal cause of the failure was poor planning.
  • * 1760 [1726], , ''The Odyssey , Volume 2, page 217,
    • 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.
  • * 1995 , Madeleine Cabos, Baedeker Paris , page 105,
    • 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.
  • * 2005 , Ruth N. Collins, Application of Phylogenetic Algorithms to Assess Rab Functional Relationships'', Sidney P. Colowick, Alan Hall (editors), ''Methods in Enzymology , Volume 403, page 22,
    • 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.
  • (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
    • (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, primary

    Related terms

    * principally

    Noun

  • (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
    • A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal , and the rest covers interest.
  • * 1902 , William Pember Reeves, State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand , Volume 1, 2011, Cambridge University Press, page 342,
    • 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 .
  • * 2012 , Denis Clifford, Plan Your Estate , 11th Edition, NOLO, US, page 298,
    • For instance, in some states, dividends that have automatically been reinvested will be treated as principal .
  • * 2012 , Fred Steingold, Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business , page 88,
    • 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.
  • (North America, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
  • * 1971 , Louis Kaplan, Education and Mental Health , page 413,
    • The important administrative figure to the teacher is the school principal .
  • * 2008 , Brian Dive, The Accountable Leader: Developing Effective Leadership Through Managerial Accountability , page 212,
    • 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.’
  • * 2009 , Colin J. Marsh, Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum , page 132,
    • 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).
  • * 2011 , U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook 2011-2012 , page 45,
    • 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.
  • (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, page 314,
    • 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
  • (legal) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one?s behalf.
    • ''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.
  • * 1958 , American Law Institute. Restatement of the Law, Second: Agency 2d'', Volume 7 , page 533,
    • 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.
  • * 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 , page 34,
    • 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 .
  • * 2009 , California Continuing Education of the Bar, California Probate Code , page 375,
    • An attorney-in-fact has a duty to act solely in yhe interest of the principal and to avoid conflicts of interest.
  • (legal) The primary participant in a crime.
  • * 1915 , Eugene Allen Gilmore, Wiliam Charles Wermuth, Modern American Law , page 125,
    • The accessories may be prosecuted, tried and punished, though the principal has not been prosecuted or has been acquitted.
  • A company represented by a salesperson.
    • My principal sells metal shims.
  • (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.
    • (Spenser)
  • 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.

    • 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 school

    Synonyms

    * (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) diapason

    Coordinate 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) accessory

    Related terms

    * principalship

    See also

    * PITI payment * prince * principality * principle ----

    law

    English

    (wikipedia law)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).

    Noun

  • (lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
  • :
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
  • A particular such rule.
  • :
  • *
  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
  • (lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
  • :
  • A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify "what happens," without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
  • :
  • (lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
  • A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity".
  • (lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
  • The police.
  • :
  • (lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
  • An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
    • Hyponyms
    * sharia law
    Derived terms
    * above the law * against the law * a law unto oneself * * Avogadro’s law * Beer-Lambert law * Boyle’s law * bylaw * canon law * Charles’ law * civil law * common law * contract law * corn laws * Coulomb’s law * criminal law * de Morgan’s laws * employment law * family law * Faraday’s laws * federal law * feudal law * Fourier’s law * Gauss’s law * Graham’s law * Gresham’s law * Henry’s law * Hooke’s law * Hubble’s law * international law * into law * Kepler’s laws of planetary motion * Kerchoff’s laws * law and order * lawful * lawgiver * lawlike * law lord * lawmaker, law-maker * law of cosines * law of large numbers * law of sines * law of small numbers * law of tangents * law of the land * law of the tongue * lay down the law * long arm of the law * lynch law * martial law * Moore’s law * Murphy's law * natural law * Newton’s law of cooling * Newton’s law of gravitation * Newton’s laws of motion * Ohm’s law * physical law * power law * Poiseuille’s law * possession is nine points of the law * property law * Roman law * statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US) * state law * statute law (Commonwealth English) * Stefan-Boltzmann law * Stokes’ law * sus law * take the law into one’s own hands * the law is an ass * three laws of robotics * unwritten law * Zipf’s law

    See also

    * * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Also spelled low.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a tumulus of stones
  • a hill
  • * 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
    • You might climb the Law [...] and behold the face of many counties.

    Etymology 3

    Compare (la).

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.

    • References

    Etymology] in [[:w:da:ODS, ODS]

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