principle 的定义
- an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived: the principles of modern physics.
- a fundamental doctrine or tenet; a distinctive ruling opinion: the principles of the Stoics.
- principles, a personal or specific basis of conduct or management: to adhere to one's principles; a kindergarten run on modern principles.
- guiding sense of the requirements and obligations of right conduct: a person of principle.
- an adopted rule or method for application in action: a working principle for general use.
- a rule or law exemplified in natural phenomena, the construction or operation of a machine, the working of a system, or the like: the principle of capillary attraction.
- the method of formation, operation, or procedure exhibited in a given case: a community organized on the patriarchal principle.
- a determining characteristic of something; essential quality.
- an originating or actuating agency or force: growth is the principle of life.
- an actuating agency in the mind or character, as an instinct, faculty, or natural tendency: the principles of human behavior.
- Chemistry. a constituent of a substance, especially one giving to it some distinctive quality or effect.
- Obsolete. beginning or commencement.
principle 近义词
law, standard
更多principle例句
- Overall, many of the principles Barr put forward are unobjectionable in general.
- Generally speaking, they do this by creating guidelines and principles for developers, funders, and regulators to follow.
- This means that, in principle, an algorithm might learn to represent the meaning of words simply from their distributions in a large amount of text.
- You write all human languages are unified by a simple principle.
- Abouheif thinks that what is happening in carpenter ants may illustrate a broader principle involving symbioses and evolution.
- But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.
- Nixon said defending the two islands was “a matter of principle.”
- If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom.
- Let the record show that espousing principles is common; acting on principle is rare.
- The principle that outsiders should be welcomed and provided for was a cross-cultural theme in ancient cultures.
- Many so-called "humming tones" are given for practice, but in accepting them observe whether the foregoing principle is obeyed.
- The grand thing is to have each of your five fingers go "dum, dum," an equal number of times, which is the principle of all three!
- He had hitherto lived for universal man:—his days should terminate on a different principle.
- The gauge of railways in Great Britain was not fixed upon any scientific principle.
- I have erected above 100 steam-engines on this principle, but never met with one accident or complaint against them.