Principal

['prɪnsəp(ə)l] or ['prɪnsəpl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account.

(noun.) the educator who has executive authority for a school; 'she sent unruly pupils to see the principal'.

(noun.) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement.

(noun.) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it.

(noun.) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated.

手打:苏珊--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.

(n.) A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.

(n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.

(n.) A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.

(n.) One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.

(n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.

(n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.

(n.) The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.

(n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.

(n.) A heirloom; a mortuary.

(n.) The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

(n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

(n.) A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.

錄入:诺顿

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Chief, main, first, highest, supreme, leading, cardinal, most considerable, most important.

n. [1]. Chief, head, leader, chief actor.[2]. Master, head master.[3]. Employer, constituent.[4]. Capital sum (placed at interest).

切丽錄入

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Highest, first, main, leading, chief, primary, foremost, pre-eminent,prominent

ANT:Inferior, subordinate, secondary, supplemental, subject, auxiliary, minor

欧文整理

解釋/意思:

adj. taking the first place: highest in rank character or importance: chief.—n. a principal person or thing: a head as of a school or college: one who takes a leading part: money on which interest is paid: (archit.) a main beam or timber: (law) the person who commits a crime or one who aids and abets him in doing it: a person for whom another becomes surety a person who being sui juris employs another to do an act which he is competent himself to do: (mus.) an organ-stop: (Shak.) the principal rafter.—n. Principal′ity supreme power: the territory of a prince or the country which gives title to him: (B.) a prince: (obs.) a power: (pl.) an order of angels the seventh in the hierarchy of Dionysius.—adv. Prin′cipally.—ns. Prin′cipalness the state of being principal or chief; Prin′cipalship position of a principal; Prin′cipate primary: a principality esp. the office of the ancient Roman emperors.

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