To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
An accepted, fundamental rule or truth to be used as a guide in one's action or conduct.
A universal law of nature which guides the manner in which the universe functions. A consistent parameter in which the forces of nature are manifest. An unchanging fact, which composes a facet of truth.
A governing law of conduct; a fundamental belief serving as a responsible guide to action; a basis for policy.
A basic unifying idea from which may be deduced relative concepts and facts with the same principle, like from the principle of Action/Reaction different examples are deduced using the same principle.
(Security.) High-level fundamentals.
A rule or ethical standard.
a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct. Any particular principle is questionably independent as it is likely to be a part of a certain paradigm or doctrine. paradigm doctrine economics
Basic rule that guides or influences thought or action.
Basic truth or doctrine used as a basis of reasoning or a guide to behavior.
negligence: general rule or guideline to be obeyed or applied in similar cases An important legal principle is that you are innocent until proven guilty. principled (adj)
a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; "their principles of composition characterized all their works"
a rule or standard especially of good behavior; "a man of principle"; "he will not violate his principles"
a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy"
a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields"
(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines"
a basic belief that you accept as a guide to your personal behaviour
a basic or essential quality that determines the intrinsic nature of something
a basic truth, a rule of conduct, a way to proceed
a basic truth, policy, or action
a concept, an abstract concept, that defines essential relationships among a host of subsidiary concepts, ideas, and matters of fact
a foundational law or truth
a fundamental or basic tenet, truth or rule
a fundamental primary or general truth on which other truths depend
a fundamental rule that underlies your set of rules
a guide to action (mental or physical), and therefore, requires an identification of the goal sought, i
an authoritative starting point for legal reasoning from which we seek rules or grounds of decision by deduction
an enduring truth, a law, a rule you can adopt to guide you in making decisions
an essential ground rule to guide the movement of the organization based on observable evidence to back its veracity
an individual's code of conduct
an 'obvious' truth, it is self-evident
an overall concept or truth
an unvarying rule of action which has always been true and which permits of no exception
a rule of conduct or a basic truth
a rule or law that governs conduct in a given situation
a rule which guides a person's behaviour or actions
a ruling factor if it makes a difference in the way people live
a settled rule of morality or conduct
a starting point of departure as well as a rule
a truth, method, or rule adopted as the basis for action or conduct
A general rule of conduct to be followed in achieving goals and objectives.
an adopted rule or method for application in action: a working principle for general use.
A basic truth, law, or assumption that is widely accepted and followed as a general rule or standard.
A fundamental basis for action.
a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption; a rule or code of conduct
The embodiment of some aspect of truth on which this system of ours is based; that which governs always the action of the ego on its own plane. The basic differentiations, essential qualities or types of energy upon which all things are built; they give the distinctive nature of all forms. Principles are eternal, personalities temporal. Principles are to be viewed in the light of eternity, personalities from the standpoint of time. The trouble is that, in many situations, two principles are involved, one of which is secondary. The difficulty likes in the fact that (both being principles) both are right. It is a rule for safe guidance always to remember that usually basic principles (for their wise comprehension and fruitful working out) call for play of intuition whilst secondary principles are more purely mental. The methods hence necessariy differ. While holding to the basic principles, the wisest methods are silence and a joyful confidence that the Law works.
a general truth upon which other truths depend thinking held in a usable form
A moral rule or standard of good behavior; a basic truth that explains or controls how something happens or works.
The spelling principle to remember here is that the school principal is a prince and a pal (despite appearances)--and the same applies to anything of foremost importance, such as a principal principle. A "principle" is a rule. (Thank you, Meghan Cope, for help on this one.)