Principial vs. Principal
Principialadjective
(obsolete) elementary
Principialadjective
Elementary.
Principaladjective
Primary; most important.
Principaladjective
Of or relating to a prince; princely.
Principalnoun
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
Principalnoun
The chief administrator of a school.
Principalnoun
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
Principalnoun
(legal) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
Principalnoun
(legal) The primary participant in a crime.
Principalnoun
(North America) A partner or owner of a business.
Principalnoun
(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
Principalnoun
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
Principalnoun
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
Principalnoun
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Principalnoun
(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
Principalnoun
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
Principalnoun
(computing) A security principal.
Principaladjective
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.
Principaladjective
Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.
Principalnoun
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.
Principalnoun
The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, - as distinguished from an accessory.
Principalnoun
A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
Principalnoun
the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
Principalnoun
the educator who has executive authority for a school;
Principalnoun
an actor who plays a principal role
Principalnoun
capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
Principalnoun
the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
Principaladjective
most important element;
Principaladjective
first in order of importance; main
Principaladjective
denoting an original sum invested or lent
Principalnoun
the most important or senior person in an organization or group
Principalnoun
the head of a school, college, or other educational institution
Principalnoun
the leading performer in a concert, play, ballet, or opera
Principalnoun
the leading player in each section of an orchestra
Principalnoun
(in certain professions) a fully qualified practitioner
Principalnoun
(in the UK) a senior civil servant in charge of a particular section.
Principalnoun
a sum of money lent or invested, on which interest is paid
Principalnoun
a person for whom another acts as an agent or representative
Principalnoun
the person directly responsible for a crime.
Principalnoun
each of the combatants in a duel.
Principalnoun
a main rafter supporting purlins.
Principalnoun
an organ stop sounding a main register of open flue pipes typically an octave above the diapason
