principle
noun
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Sense 1 noun
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
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Sense 2 noun
a rule or standard especially of good behavior
a man of principle
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Sense 3 noun
a basic truth or law or assumption
the principles of democracy
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Sense 4 noun
a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
the principle of the conservation of mass
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Sense 5 noun
rule of personal conduct
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Sense 6 noun
(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
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | generality |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pillar |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | yang |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | yin |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | feng shui |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | value |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | accounting principle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | knightliness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ethic |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Hellenism |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | legal principle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | scruple |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | natural law |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | dictate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fundamentals |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | logic |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pleasure principle |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | reality principle |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | insurrectionism |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | conservation |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Tao |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | law of nature |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Gestalt law of organization |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Le Chatelier's principle |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Gresham's Law |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | mass-energy equivalence |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Naegele's rule |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Occam's Razor |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | principle of equivalence |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | principle of liquid displacement |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Huygens' principle of superposition |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | principle of superposition |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | mass-action principle |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | localisation |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | ethical code |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | prescript |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | higher law |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | moral principle |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | hypothetical imperative |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | caveat emptor |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ratiocinate |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | explanation |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | dialectics |