on principle

US pronunciation

American soundon principle

onprinciple

Syllables: 2 syllables
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on - principle -> on principle

Myanmar meaning

(idm) မူအရ။ ယုံကြည်မှုအရ။

Full entry

principle /'prÇnsǝpl/ n

၁။ [C] အခြေခံသဘောတရား။ the basic principles of geometry ❍ the principle of equality of opportunity for all ❍ Discussing all these details will get us nowhere; we must get back to first principles.
၂။ (က) [C usu pl ] (ကိုယ်ပိုင်)မူ။ live according to one's principles ❍ She seems to have no principles at all when it is a question of making money. ❍ It would be against my principles to lie to you. (ခ) [U] ကိုယ်ကျင့်တရား။ a woman of (high) principle ❍ He is completely without principle (ie does not behave morally) ❍ It is a matter of principle with her to answer her children's questions honestly.
၃။ [sing] နိယာမ။ ဥပဒေသ။ These devices both work on the same principle. ❍ The system works on the principle that heat rises.
❏ in principle [IDM ]
၁။ အခြေခံသဘောအရ။ There's no reason in principle why people couldn't travel to Mars (ie It is possible, though it has not yet been done).
၂။ မူအားဖြင့်။ ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့်။ They have agreed to the proposal in principle but we still have to negotiate the terms.
❏ on principle [IDM ] မူအရ။ ယုံကြည်မှုအရ။ Many people are opposed to abortion on principle.
❏ principled adj ကိုယ်ကျင့်တရားကောင်းသော။ မူအရ ဖြစ်သော။ a (high-) principled man ❍ a principled stand against federalism.

More examples

Excellent customer service should be our guiding principle.
[principle of] : It is a basic principle of English law that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
[principle that] : The principle that education should be free to everyone
Marxist/Buddhist/democratic principles
The principles and ideals that the party stands for
He seems to have absolutely no principles.
[against someone’s principles] : It was against their principles to join the armed forces.
[stick to/stand by your principles] : Bennett stuck to his principles, and refused to name the source of his information.
A woman of principle
[on principle] : We are opposed on principle to any collaboration with terrorists.
[a point/matter/issue of principle] : There are some basic issues of principle relating to the debate about abortion.
Windmills differ in design, but all operate on exactly the same principle.
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
[principle of] : It was Darwin who first identified the ‘principle of female choice’.

Synonyms

code, standard, belief, attitude, opinion, antecedent, assumption, axiom, basis, canon, cause, convention, criterion, determinant, dictum, doctrine, dogma, ethic, form, formula, foundation, fundamental, golden rule, ground, law, maxim, norm, notion, origin, postulate, precept, prescript, principium, proposition, regulation, rule, source, tenet, theorem, theory, truth, usage, value, verity, wellspring

Antonyms

ambiguity, effect, end, leftover, result, unconsumed, uneaten