different between principle vs president

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French principe, from Latin pr?ncipium (“beginning, foundation”), from pr?nceps (“first”); see prince.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??ns?p?l/, /?p??ns?p?l/
• Hyphenation: prin?ci?ple
• Homophone: principal

Noun

principle (plural principles)

1. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.

   • Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor to my dog, we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept
          my dog is asleep on __
     to the object
          the floor
     (see Frege 1919). Frege recognizes what is now a commonplace in the logical analysis of natural language. We can attribute more than one logical form to a single sentence. Let us call this the principle of multiple analyses. Frege does not claim that the principle always holds, but as we shall see, modern type theory does claim this.

2. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.

3. (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.

   I don't doubt your principles.

   You are clearly a person of principle.

   It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.

4. (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.

   Bernoulli's Principle

   The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.

   The principle of the internal combustion engine

5. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
   • 1845, William Gregory, Outlines of Chemistry

     Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.

6. (obsolete) A beginning.
7. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of Being Religious

     The soul of man is an active principle.

8. An original faculty or endowment.
   • 1828, Dugal Stewart, The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man

     those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering

Usage notes

• Principle ("moral rule"), as a noun, is often confused with principal, which can be an adjective ("most important") or a noun ("school principal"). A memory aid to avoid this confusion is: "The principal alphabetic principle places A before E".

Synonyms

• (moral rule or aspect): tenet

Derived terms

Related terms

• prince
• principal
• principality

Translations

Verb

principle (third-person singular simple present principles, present participle principling, simple past and past participle principled)

1. (transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.

   • Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.

Further reading

• principle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• principle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• President (honorifically)
• præsident (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French president, from Latin praesid?ns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praeside? (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sede? (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesid?ns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??z?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent

Noun

president (plural presidents, feminine presidentess)

1. The head of state of a republic.
   • 2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144

     […] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]

2. In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
3. Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
4. A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
5. Obsolete form of precedent.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (American head of state): POTUS
• (head of a college or university): provost (UK)
• (head of various specific bodies): prepositus
• (informal, jocular): prexy, prez

Translations

Adjective

president (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.

References

• president at OneLook Dictionary Search
• president in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president

Related terms

• presidència
• presidencial
• presidir

Further reading

• “president” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “president” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “president” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “president” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

president m

1. Alternative spelling of prezident

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

president m (plural presidenten, diminutive presidentje n)

1. president

Derived terms

• vicepresident

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: presiden

Ladin

Alternative forms

• presidënt

Noun

president m (plural presidenc)

1. president

Middle French

Noun

president m (plural presidens)

1. president (leader of an organization)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin praesidens

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pre?si?dent

Noun

president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidenter, definite plural presidentene)

1. a president

Derived terms

• presidentvalg

References

• “president” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin praesidens

Noun

president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidentar, definite plural presidentane)

1. a president

References

• “president” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president

Spanish

Etymology

Catalan president. Doublet of presidente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?esi?dent/, [p?e.si?ð??n?t?]

Noun

president m (plural presidents)

1. president of Catalonia

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

president c

1. a chairman, presiding member of an assembly, e.g. a court of law
2. a president, head of state in a republic

Declension

Related terms

References

• president in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)