Principle

Definition

principle /'prÇnsǝpl/ n ၁။ [C] အေျခခံသေဘာတရား။ 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 ] (ကိုယ္ပိုင္)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] ကိုယ္က်င့္တရား။ 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။ ဥပေဒသ။ These devices both work on the same principle. ❍ The system works on the principle that heat rises. ❏ in principle [ IDM ] ၁။ အေျခခံသေဘာအရ။ 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။ မူအားျဖင့္။ ေယဘုယ်အားျဖင့္။ They have agreed to the proposal in principle but we still have to negotiate the terms. ❏ on principle [ IDM ] မူအရ။ ယံုၾကည္မႈအရ။ Many people are opposed to abortion on principle. ❏ principled adj ကိုယ္က်င့္တရားေကာင္းေသာ။ မူအရ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a (high-) principled man ❍ a principled stand against federalism.

Examples

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