Principle

Noun

 * 1) A fundamental assumption.
 * We need some sort of principles to reason from.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) plural Moral rule or aspect.
 * 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.
 * 1)  A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
 * Bernoulli's principle
 * The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.
 * The principle of the internal combustion engine
 * 1) A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
 * Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle.
 * Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna. &mdash; Gregory.
 * 1)  A beginning.
 * Doubting sad end of principle unsound. &mdash; Spenser.

Synonyms

 * tenet

Derived terms

 * agreement in principle
 * anthropic principle
 * Aufbau principle
 * Bernoulli's principle
 * correspondence principle
 * cosmological principle
 * Dilbert principle
 * dormitive principle
 * equivalence principle
 * extractive principle
 * first principles
 * Huygens' principle
 * IBM Pollyanna Principle
 * Le Chatelier's principle
 * Mach's principle
 * matter of principle
 * Matthew principle


 * Mitchell principle
 * on principle
 * Pareto principle
 * Pauli exclusion principle
 * Peter principle
 * pigeonhole principle
 * precautionary principle
 * principle of least action
 * principle of substitutivity
 * principled stance
 * reciprocity principle
 * strong equivalence principle
 * superposition principle
 * uncertainty principle
 * verifiability principle

Related terms

 * prince
 * principal
 * principality
 * principled

Adjectives for Principle
political; fundamental; moral; poetical; infallible; unsuspected; applicable; acknowledged; essential; immortal; revolutionary rigid; guiding; ultimate; wholesome; just competitive; cantilever; inductive; mistaken common; immutable; particular; thoughtful sexual; strict; eternal; underlying; false animating; incorporating; vital; involved party; maleficent; despotic; sacred; religious; uniform; methodological; architectural; patriotic; latent; antagonistic; vigorous; virtuous; odious; death-bringing; pervading; evolutionary; anti-centralizing; active chemical; unimpeachable;  humanitarian first; vicious; internal; untrue; inductive mischievous; settled; rational; human; leading; exhausted; distorted; one-term; critical intuitive; basic; ruling; durable; adverse honorable; beautifying; abandoned; intelligible; simple; commonsense; fixed; cooperative; rudimental; scientific; irreconcilable; immaterial; preposterous; philosophical; artistic; cardinal; warlike; favorite; sound unquestionable; established; high; proper enlightened; better; novel; demonstrative sound; self-exploding; moving; dynamic ethical-; phonetic; elementary; unjust; spirited; uniform; dazzling; racial; germinal.

Verbs for Principle
abhor—; accept—; adhere to—; apply—; base on—; commit to—; comprehend—; compromise—; concur on—; contravene—; deduce—; dispute—; dissect—; embody; — embrace—; endorse—; enunciate—; espouse —; establish—; exemplify—; expound—;extend—; formulate—; grasp—; illustrate —;inculcate—; infract—; infuse—; instill —; invest with—; invoke—; obscure—; oppose—; pledge to—; proclaim—; promulgate —; refute—; reiterate—; safeguard—; steep in— trample— unfold—; utilize—; vaunt —; vindicate—; violate—; —decays; —justifies; —triumphs; —underlies.

Thesaurus
Procrustean law, a belief, a priori truth, activity, ambition, antecedents, article of faith, aspiration, at bottom, attitude, axiom, base, basement, basically, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, belief, brocard, call, calling, campaign, canon, causation, cause, cause and effect, center, code, commandment, commitment, conscience, consideration, convention, core, credo, creed, criterion, crusade, determinant, determinative, dictate, dictum, doctrine, dogma, drive, element, elements, elixir, essence, essential, essentially, ethic, etiology, factor, faith, floor, flooring, flower, focus, fond, footing, form, formality, formula, formulary, foundation, fundament, fundamental, fundamentally, fundamentals, general principle, gist, given, goal, golden rule, grammar, gravamen, great cause, ground, grounds, groundwork, guide, guideline, guiding light, guiding principle, guiding star, hardpan, heart, honesty, hypostasis, idea, ideal, ideally, imperative, in essence, in theory, inner essence, inspiration, integrity, intention, interest, issue, kernel, law, law of nature, lifework, lodestar, mainspring, marrow, mass movement, matter, maxim, meat, mitzvah, model, moral, morality, morals, motive, movement, norm, norma, notion, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, occasion, order of nature, ordinance, pavement, philosophy, pith, point of view, postulate, precept, prescribed form, prescription, principium, principles, probity, proposition, quid, quiddity, quintessence, radical, reason, reason for being, regulation, riprap, rock bottom, rubric, rudiment, rudiments, rule, sake, sap, score, seat, self-evident truth, sentiment, set form, settled principle, sill, solid ground, solid rock, soul, source, spirit, spring, standard, standing order, stereobate, stimulus, stuff, stylobate, substance, substratum, substruction, substructure, teaching, tenet, terra firma, the nitty-gritty, theorem, theoretically, truism, truth, ulterior motive, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, universal law, universal truth, uprightness, usage, viewpoint, vocation, working principle, working rule

Etymology
< principe: <  principium: < princeps:; see prince.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, սկզբնապատճառ
 * Chinese: 原則, 原则 (yuánzé)
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: principo
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: αρχή (archí)
 * Hebrew: עקרון
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 원리 (wolli)
 * Polish: zasada, reguła
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: princip
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Armenian: ,
 * Esperanto: principo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hebrew: עקרון
 * Japanese: ,


 * Polish: zasada, reguła
 * Portuguese: princípio
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: načelo
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: principo
 * Estonian: põhimõte
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hebrew: עקרון
 * Icelandic:


 * Japanese:, 信念;  行動指針
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: zasada
 * Portuguese: princípio
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: načelo
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: principo
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:


 * Hebrew: עקרון
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: prawo, zasada
 * Portuguese: princípio
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * : 原則, 原则 (yuánzé)
 * : principe
 * : principo
 * : Prinzip (1, 2), Prinzipien  (3)
 * : principio
 * : principio
 * : 원리 (wolli) (1, 2)
 * : principium
 * : prinsipp
 * : principio
 * : prinsip