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📖 Определения и значения для слова principle

📒 a moral rule or a strong belief that influences your actions

  • He has high moral principles.
  • Stick to your principles and tell him you won't do it.
  • against your principles I refuse to lie about it; it's against my principles.

📒 a law, a rule or a theory that something is based on

  • The same principles apply to both humans and animals.
  • an important legal principle
  • ‘You learn general principles from studying particular things,’ he asserts.

📒 a belief that is accepted as a reason for acting or thinking in a particular way

  • The welfare of the child is the guiding principle of the family courts.
  • They were accused of violating the principles of democracy.
  • The principle of equality is enshrined in the Constitution.

📒 a general or scientific law that explains how something works or why something happens

  • O'Sullivan was among the first chemists to apply scientific principles to brewing beer.
  • principle that… the principle that heat rises
  • in principle A tidal current turbine is similar in principle to a windmill.

📒 if something can be done in principle, there is no good reason why it should not be done although it has not yet been done and there may be some difficulties

  • In principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be able to do one day.

📒 in general but not in detail

  • They have agreed to the proposal in principle but we still have to negotiate the terms.
  • I agree with you in principle, but we'll need to discuss the details.
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