| 释义 |
principal /prinˈsi-pl/ adjective- Highest in rank or importance
- Chief, main
- Constituting a capital sum or principal (finance)
noun- The head of a college or university, or sometimes of a school
- Someone who takes a leading part
- A leading actor or performer in a play, show, etc
- The person who commits a crime, or someone who aids and abets him or her in doing it (law)
- A person for whom another becomes surety (law)
- A person who, being sui juris, employs someone else to do an act which he or she is competent himself to do (law)
- Someone who fights a duel
- The sum of money on which interest is paid
- A main beam, rafter, girder or timber
- A roof-truss
- The structural framework of a roof
- An organ stop similar to a diapason but usu sounding an octave higher than the basic pitch (music)
- A collective name for all the pipes of different pitches that produce the basic sound of an organ (music)
ORIGIN: L principālis, from princeps, -ipis chief principality /-palˈi-ti/ noun - The status, rank or power of a prince
- The condition of being a prince
- The territory of a prince or one that he derives his title from
- (in pl) one of the nine orders of angels in the Celestial hierarchy (medieval theol)
prinˈcipally adverb prinˈcipalness noun prinˈcipalship noun principal axis noun A line through the centre of curvature of a lens principal boy noun (theatre) The role of the young male hero in pantomime, usu played by a woman principal clause noun (grammar) A clause which could function as an independent sentence, a main clause principal parts plural noun (grammar) Those forms of a verb from which all other forms may be deduced, eg, in English, the infinitive, the past tense and the past participle the Principality Wales |