basic principle
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2.7
- noun
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principio fundamental
- Of course it was updated and refined over the years, but the same basic principle always held true.
- consensus on basic principles
- basic principles of justice
- basic principles of democracy
But it's it's all built around some basic principles of service.
- But it's it's all built around some basic principles of service.
- OK, so that's the kind of very basic principle about how a laser can be made.
- What are the basic principles of virology?
- Like what, what are the, what are the basic principles at work?
- How did they not understand basic principles?
- But all the rest of the basic principles are open sourced on on the web.
- They very closely resemble the basic principles of what we build on for space suits today.
- One of the basic principles of addressing NT DS has been mass Drug Administration.
- Well, the basic principle is that you decide what you want to go where in your computer.
- So it's all about we, we talked about basic principles of risk management in the preceding lecture.
Examples
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I still think the basic principle is all right.
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The basic principle of honesty is essential in building trust in any relationship.
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These are sort of some of the basic principles of her art.
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Because remember, one of the basic principles was this.
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And it's really a very basic principle.
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We always start with the basic principle of virtual work, and that is written here.
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It's the basic principle of physics.
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Consider a few examples of these basic principles: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Academic text (1992) -
Parents seemed to understand the basic principle of physical fitness.
Academic text (2015) -
The basic principles of equality and freedom never have, never will take root in Germany.
Synonyms
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3.8
A basic idea or law that explains how something works
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3.5
The basic ideas and facts that support a belief, plan, or system
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3.8
A basic idea or rule that something depends on
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7.5
A basic statement accepted as true and used as a starting point for reasoning
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4.1
A basic rule that other ideas come from
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9.4
A basic idea that something is built on
How Fundamental
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a fundamental rule or idea' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'basic' (core, essential) with 'principle' (foundational rule). This compositional pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Basic principle comes from the image of a building, where something basic sits at the base and a principle is a rule that supports other things, so a basic principle is a rule that holds everything else up. That's why it means 'a fundamental rule'.