| 单词 | the law |
| 释义 | law1 /lö/noun
To go to law ORIGIN: ME lawe, from late OE lagu, of ON origin, from the same root as lie2 and lay1 lawˈful adjective
lawˈfully adverb lawˈfulness noun lawˈing noun
lawˈless adjective
lawˈlessly adverb lawˈlessness noun lawˈyer noun
lawˈyerly adjective lawˈ-abiding adjective Obedient to and having respect for the law lawˈ-abidingness noun law agent noun (Scots law; old) A solicitor lawˈ-book noun A book dealing with the law or law cases lawˈbreaker noun A person who does not observe or who abuses a law lawˈbreaking noun and adjective lawˈ-burrows noun (Scots law) A writ requiring a person to give security against doing violence to another lawˈ-calf noun A book-binding in smooth, pale-brown calfskin law centre noun An office, usu in a socially deprived area, where free legal advice and assistance are given (also neighbourhood law centre) Law Commission noun A body of judges, solicitors, barristers and academic lawyers, appointed to report to Parliament on areas of possible law reform lawˈcourt noun A court of justice lawˈ-day noun A day when court proceedings may be held in public, a day of open court lawful day noun A day on which particular kinds of business may be legally done, not a Sunday or a public holiday lawˈgiver noun A person who enacts or imposes laws lawˈgiving adjective law Latin noun Latin as used in law and legal documents, being a mixture of Latin with Old French and Latinized English words lawˈ-list noun An annual book of information about lawyers, courts, etc Law Lord noun
lawˈmaker noun A legislator lawˈman noun A sheriff or policeman (US; now chiefly archaic or facetious) lawˈ-man noun (historical) A member of a select body with magisterial powers in some of the Danish towns of early England lawˈ-merˈchant noun (obsolete) The customs that have grown up among merchants in reference to mercantile documents and business, commercial law lawˈmonger noun A trivially contentious lawyer law of averages noun see under average lawˈ-officer noun A legal official and adviser of the government, esp an Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, or Lord Advocate law of nations noun Now international law (see under international), orig applied to those ethical principles regarded as obligatory on all communities law of nature noun
law of octaves noun see under octave law of supply and demand noun The economic theory that the price of an item at a particular time is determined by conditions of supply and demand law of the jungle noun The rules for surviving, succeeding, etc in a competitive or hostile situation by the use of force, etc law of the land noun The established law of a country law of the Medes and Persians noun see under Median law reports plural noun Written records of previous case law which are used during court proceedings to make reference to established legal principles Law Society noun The solicitors' governing body for England and Wales laws of motion plural noun see under motion lawˈ-stāˈtioner noun A person who sells parchment, documents and other articles needed by lawyers lawˈsuit noun A suit or process in law lawˈ-writer noun
lawyer's wig noun Another name for shaggy cap (see under shag) lawyer vine noun A spiny Australian vine of the palm family be a law unto oneself or itself To act in a way that does not follow established rules or conventions Bode's law (astronomy) A rule popularized by Johann Bode (1747–1826, German astronomer) but first announced by Johann Titius (1729–96), which states that the distances of the planets from the sun in astronomical units is found by adding 4 to the series 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,… and dividing the number so obtained by 10 Boyle's law (also Mariotte's law) The law that, for a gas at a given temperature, pressure varies inversely to volume, announced by Robert Boyle in 1662, and confirmed by Mariotte (1620–84, French physicist) Charles's law The law that all gases have the same value for the coefficient of expansion at constant pressure, stated by JAC Charles (1746–1823, French physicist), also called Gay-Lussac's law after JL Gay-Lussac (1778–1850, French chemist and physicist) Dalton's law (chem) The law that, in a mixture of gases, the pressure exerted by each gas is the same as that which it would exert if it were the only gas present go to law with To resort to litigation against Gresham's law The law, formulated by Sir Thomas Gresham (1519–79), that of two forms of currency the inferior or more depreciated tends to drive the other from circulation, owing to the hoarding and exportation of the better form Grimm's law The law formulating certain changes undergone by Indo-European stopped consonants in Germanic, stated by Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) have or get the law on (informal) or have the law of (archaic) To enforce the law against Hooke's law The law formulated by Robert Hooke (1635–1703), which states that, for an elastic material within its elastic limit, the extension produced by stretching the material is proportional to the force that is producing the extension Kepler's laws
lay down the law To speak authoritatively or dictatorially Mariotte's law see Boyle's law above. Moore's law The law formulated by Gordon Moore (born 1929), which states that the number of transistors that it is possible to fit onto a silicon chip doubles approx every 18 months Murphy's law (facetious) The law which states that if anything can go wrong, it will Parkinson's law see separate entry. Snell's law The law of refraction discovered by Willebrord Snel or Snell (1580–1626, Dutch mathematician), which states that the sine of the angle of incidence divided by the sine of the angle of refraction is a constant, known as the refractive index Sod's law see under sod2 take the law into one's own hands To obtain justice, or what one considers to be justice, by one's own actions, without recourse to the law, the police, etc the law (informal)
Verner's law A law stated by Karl Verner in 1875, showing the effect of accent in the shifting of Indo-European stopped consonants and s in Germanic, and explaining the most important anomalies in the application of Grimm's law |
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