principal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Primary; most important; first level in importance.

   “Smith is the principal architect of this design.”

2. sıfat Of or relating to a prince; princely.

   “But walkt at will, and wandred to and fro, / In the pride of his freedome principall.”

3. sıfat Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.

   “Two is the principal square root of 4. Both −2 and +2 are square roots of 4.”

4. isim The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

   “A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.”

5. isim The chief administrator of a school.

   “The important administrative figure to the teacher is the school principal.”

6. isim The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

   “Coordinate term: bursar”

7. isim A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.

   “When an attorney represents a client, the client is the principal who permits the attorney, the client′s agent, to act on the client′s behalf.”

8. isim The primary participant in a crime.

   “The accessories may be prosecuted, tried and punished, though the principal has not been prosecuted or has been acquitted.”

9. isim Either party in a duel.

   “The old man raised his arm as though it had been palsied, and fired, of course without effect. The other principal immediately deloped, much to the satisfaction of my friend and all present.”

10. isim A partner or owner of a business.
11. isim A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
12. isim The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
13. isim The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

    “a birde whose principals be scarce growne out”

14. isim One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
15. isim An essential point or rule; a principle.

    “Set two classes of monitors to question each other; so that one may try to outquestion the other. Explain to them the principal of every subject they have to teach.”

16. isim A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
17. isim A security principal.
18. isim A main character or lead actor.

    “Silverberg also gives the reader reader some excellent character insight; deep probes into the minds of all the principals bring the reader closer to the persons involved than might be thought possible with the plot so far removed from the realm of normality.”