LAW

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.

   “The courts interpret the law but should not make it.”

2. isim The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.

   “property law”

3. isim Common law, as contrasted with equity.
4. isim A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.

   “There is a law against importing wallabies.”

5. isim Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)

   “"Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.”

6. isim A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.

   “the laws of playwriting and poetry”

7. isim A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)

   “the laws of thermodynamics”

8. isim A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.

   “Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.”

9. isim Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.

   “the law of scarcity”

10. isim A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.

    “Grimm's law”

11. isim One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
12. isim The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.

    “They worked to maintain law and order.”

13. isim A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).

    “Here comes the law — run!”

14. isim The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).

    “He is studying for a career in law.”

15. isim Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.

    “She went to university to study law.”

16. isim Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc.).

    “They were quick to go to law.”

17. isim An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
18. isim A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.

    “normal law; alternate law; direct law”

19. isim One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
20. isim An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)

    “As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury.”

21. fiil To work as a lawyer; to practice law.

    “That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?”

22. fiil To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.

    “Your husband's … so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.”

23. fiil To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.

    “At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there.”

24. fiil To enforce the law.

    “De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot.”

25. fiil To subject to legal restrictions.

    “Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been lawed and lawed until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied”

26. isim A tumulus of stones.
27. isim A hill.

    “[Y]ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships.”

28. isim A score; share of expense; legal charge.
29. ünlem An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks; in interjections, a minced oath for Lord.

    “‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘Law Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’”

30. özel isim A surname originating as a patronymic.