Crossword-Solution: PRINCIPAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Principal | 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. |
| Principal | a. | Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. |
| Principal | 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. |
| Principal | n. | The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory. |
| Principal | n. | A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety. |
| Principal | n. | One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent. |
| Principal | n. | A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous. |
| Principal | 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. |
| Principal | 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. |
| Principal | 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. |
| Principal | n. | A heirloom; a mortuary. |
| Principal | n. | The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing. |
| Principal | n. | One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned. |
| Principal | n. | A principal or essential point or rule; a principle. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PRINCIPAL (5)
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.
The principal sources of revenue come from sales of copra, postage stamps, souvenir coins, and handicrafts.
The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colorful personalities.
The dramatic club was the pride of Tillie’s heart, and her enthusiasm was the principal factor in keeping it together.
According to Eric CALALUCA, PLD's principal focus has been on converting Jacques-Paul Migne's definitive collection of Latin texts to machine-readable form.
Quotes with PRINCIPAL (3)
Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.
Essas duas histórias - a do lado de dentro e a do lado de fora - podem ser contadas sobre cada um de nós. Ao chamá-las de 'histórias' não pretendo diminuí-las. Algumas são, apesar de tudo, verdadeiras. O problema é que temos muita dificuldade em ver como ambas as histórias que contamos sobre nós podem ser verdadeiras. O efeito da segunda história, aquela contada do lado de fora, parece uma drástica realocação do nosso papel na trama. Longe de sermos o personagem principal da …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1988–2023).