(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(2) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(3) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(4) This paper reports, principally, the caries results of the first three surveys of 5, 12 and 5-year-olds undertaken at the end of 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively.
(5) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
(6) The binding parameters indicate that the principal activating effect of UMP is not simply to increase the affinity of the enzyme for glucose.
(7) Mononuclear phagocytic cells from patients with either principal form of leprosy functioned similarly to normal monocytes in phagocytosis while their fungicidal activity for C. pseudotropicalis was statistically significantly altered and was more evident in the lepromatous than in the tuberculoid type.
(8) In the terminal segment of the hamster epididymidis there was some evidence of micro-merocrine protein secretion a the level of the principal cells and clear evidence of granular secretion in the light cells, presumable of glycoproteins.
(9) In the analysis of background fluorescence, the principal components were, as for the two-step technique, autofluorescence and propidium spectral overlap.
(10) However, at Period B, neutrophil numbers in the BAL fluid were increased in the principal but not in the control animals.
(11) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(12) The concentrations of the principal extratesticular androgens and estradiol do not seem to have a quantitative influence on these androphilic proteins either.
(13) A principal function of GPIb is its attachment to von Willebrand Factor (vWF) on injured blood vessels which leads to the adhesion of platelets to these vessels.
(14) The principal variables influencing a particular configuration and their effects are indicated.
(15) The principal form of HMTs produced by these human peripheral blood monocytes has been subjected to biochemical, functional, and serological characterization.
(16) Micronutrient antioxidants such as alpha-tocopherol, the principal lipid-soluble antioxidant, assume potential significance because levels can be manipulated by dietary measures without resulting in side effects.
(17) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
(18) 3. an up-to-date review of the principal methods and systems used to measure the sedimentation rate--Automation of the Westergren initial methodology.
(19) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
(20) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.
Surety
Definition:
(n.) The state of being sure; certainty; security.
(n.) That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
(n.) Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.
(n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.
(n.) Hence, a substitute; a hostage.
(n.) Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
(v. t.) To act as surety for.
Example Sentences:
(1) The radio talkshow host, whose syndicated show is the most listened-to talk-radio programme in the US, said Moore and others who provided surety for Assange's return to court on sex charges filed by Swedish prosecutors were "fans of serial rapists".
(2) The Australian journalist Phillip Knightley, said he had also offered £20,000 in surety for Assange, but he had no regrets about putting his money at stake.
(3) However, although the company's loans are not raised by using the property as surety, as mortgages are, the loans are attached to the property to which the improvements are made.
(4) He expressed a surety about how he saw the world and his place in it.
(5) Khan and other supporters of Assange, including film director Ken Loach and publisher Felix Dennis, posted bail totalling £200,000 to Westminster magistrates court, with a further £40,000 as promised sureties, to secure the WikiLeaks' founder's freedom when he first faced extradition proceedings in 2010 .
(6) None of the combinations or arrangements suggested surety.
(7) The federal government’s contribution towards hospitals and schools has to go up.” “The states require a return to surety on health and education.
(8) However before a ball was kicked in 92-93, the FAW requested that the club put up a bond as surety that their floodlights would be erected in time for the beginning of the League Cup competition.
(9) Two broad questions need to be asked: what is the government's role in facilitating application of contemporary nutrition knowledge to public health, and what standard of scientific surety should be the basis for its application?
(10) The unidentified defendant was allowed bail at Canterbury crown court in Kent on Friday but was not freed until Monday because it was not clear whether his bail surety had been paid.
(11) It emerged in the hearing that the DfT had demanded a greater surety from FirstGroup, pushing up the bond from £50m and settling on £200m, although at one point FirstGroup had offered £15m more.
(12) Several high-profile figures have supported Assange since his arrest in December 2010, including the film director Ken Loach and socialite and charity fundraiser Jemima Khan, who each offered £20,000 as surety.
(13) He immediately responded and asked if I would be prepared to come to court in the next hour to act as a surety for Assange.
(14) The decision by the district judge Howard Riddle to remand Assange into custody was made despite the film director Ken Loach, the journalist John Pilger, and the socialite Jemima Khan, offering sureties for him totalling £180,000.
(15) Failing reasonable surety of extirpation, permitting spontaneous healing, if feasible, is the best cours.
(16) "When looking into the eyes of those your government believe have veered from the path of democracy, British prime ministers and foreign secretaries alike will need to be able to speak with conviction and surety," their letter said.
(17) There were more reports on Monday nightof customers badly inconvenienced by the meltdown, including an unnamed man who was granted bail at Canterbury crown court, Kent, on Friday, but had to wait until Monday to be released because the bank computer problems prevented the court from confirming receipt of a surety demanded by the judge in the case.
(18) Restaurant designer Sarah Saunders also pledged £20,000 in surety.
(19) The bail conditions are that security of £200,000 is deposited with the court before Assange is freed, as well as two sureties of £20,000 each from two named people.
(20) Wednesday Trump began Wednesday with his unique combination of self-pity and self-importance, announcing in a speech to the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut : “No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.” But the Senate intelligence committee joined the House oversight committee in asking the acting FBI chief, Andrew McCabe, to hand over any notes or memos from Comey, and wrote to Comey asking him to appear in both open and closed sessions.