Meaning of principle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
2. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
3. With regard to the basics: an idea that is acceptable in principle.
4. cause, origin
5. Moral rule or aspect.
6. According to or because of principle.
7. beginning, start, outset, get-go
8. one's own personal rules or standards of behaviour. It is against my principles to borrow money. beginsels مَبادئ، مُعْتَقَدات принципи princípios zásady das Prinzip princip (ηθικές) αρχές principios põhimõtted اعتقادات periaatteet principes עֵקרוֹנוֹת प्राचार्य elvek prinsip lífsreglur, prinsipp principi 主義 신조 principai, įsitikinimai principi; uzskati pendirian principes leveregler, prinsipper zasady اعتقادونه princípios principii принципы, нормы zásady načela načelo principer ข้อปฏิบัติ ilk...
9. A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
10. first-person singular present indicative of principiar
11. in general, as opposed to in detail. in beginsel مِن حَيْثُ المَبْدأ по принцип em princípio v podstatě im Prinzip i princippet κατά κανόνα, γενικάen principio põhimõtteliselt اصولاً periaatteessa en principeעקרונית मुख्य विचार के संबंध में általában, elvben pada umumnya í grundvallaratriðum in linea di principio, in teoria 原則として 원칙적으로는 iš esmės principā; kopumā pd prinsipnya in beginseli prinsippet, prinsipielt ogólnie rzecz biorąc اصولاً em princípio în principiu в принципе v podstate v nač...
12. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
13. because of one's principles. I never borrow money, on principle. uit beginsel مَبدَئيا، بِسَبَب المَبدأ заради принципите си por princípio ze zásady aus Prinzip af princip; af principielle grunde για λόγους αρχής por principio põhimõtteliselt بخاطر اصول اخلاقی periaatteesta par principe מִתוֹך עִקָרוֹן सिद्धान्तत: elvből karena prinsip samkvæmt grundvallarreglu per principio 主義として 원칙에 따라 iš principo principa pēc krn pendirian principieelav prinsipp z zasady د اخلاقى اصولو په خاطر por princípi...
14. 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).
15. A basic truth, law, or assumption: the principles of democracy.
16. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
17. A rule or standard, especially of good behavior: a man of principle.
18. An original faculty or endowment.
19. A fixed or predetermined policy or mode of action.
20. A basic or essential quality or element determining intrinsic nature or characteristic behavior: the principle of self-preservation.
21. A beginning.
    obsolete
22. A rule or law concerning the functioning of natural phenomena or mechanical processes: the principle of jet propulsion.

Equivalents

Examples

“We need some sort of principles to reason from.”

“Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor to my dog, we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept my dog is asleep on __ to the object the floor (see Frege 1919). Frege recognizes what is now a commonplace in the logical analysis of natural language. We can attribute more than one logical form to a single sentence. Let us call this the principle of multiple analyses. Frege does not claim that the principle always holds, but as we shall see, modern type theory does claim this.”

“The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.”

“Mr. Genachowski proposed codifying the new principles with four existing principles issued several years ago by the F.C.C. They say that network operators cannot prevent users from accessing lawful Internet content, applications and services of their choice, nor can they prohibit users from attaching nonharmful devices to the network.”

“I don't doubt your principles.”

“You are clearly a person of principle.”

“It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.”

“Lavinia—shrewd, careless, clever; ready to meet any difficulty, however humiliating, that might occur; utterly without principle; confident in that good fortune, which she scrupled at no means of attaining—was the very type of the real.”

“Bernoulli's principle”

“The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.”

“The principle of the internal combustion engine”

“Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.”

“Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle.”

“the active principle”

“Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.”

“The soul of man is an active principle.”

“those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering”

“Doubting sad end of principle unsound.”

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