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English to English noun
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a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct |  | Example: their principles of composition characterized all their works
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a rule or standard especially of good behavior | | Example: a man of principle
he will not violate his principles
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a basic truth or law or assumption | | Example: the principles of democracy
source: wordnet30
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a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | | Example: the principle of the conservation of mass
the principle of jet propulsion
the right-hand rule for inductive fields
source: wordnet30
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rule of personal conduct | | source: wordnet30
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(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | | Example: the rationale for capital punishment
the principles of internal-combustion engines
source: wordnet30
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Beginning; commencement. | | source: webster1913 verb
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To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill. | | source: webster1913
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