Used in a Sentence

principe

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for principe.

Editorial note

There are also radar detector detectors, operating off the same principe - detecting the local oscillator of the receiver.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

An Italian prince.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of principe gathered in one view.

noun

An Italian prince.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for principe.

noun

An Italian prince.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

1

There are also radar detector detectors, operating off the same principe - detecting the local oscillator of the receiver.

2

It is new, for both secret services and politics, there use to be a principe of honor and respectability.

3

I think it's possible to match on a subset in principe, but I don't know if/how this is implemented.

4

That appears to be the basic operating principe of the current paradigm.

5

In principe no code outside the cancel path need changing.

6

I'm just pointing out that all of our economy is based on the same principe/model; as long as the vast majority of the group (us) believe the dollar is worth something, it will be.

7

A lot of large companies lay off swags of technical staff regularly (or watch them leave), and rotate CEOs but their middle management have jobs for life - as the Peter Principe states, they are promoted to their highest respective incompetence and stay there because no CEO has time to replace them.

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Note that I was concurrently adding an update to my post as you posted this (though I think my update is orthogonal to your point here.) With regard to contemporary attitudes to verification, we know that Eddington went to Principe to measure the magnitude of gravity’s effect on light specifically because it would be seen (and was) as strong confirmation of the theory.

Quote examples

1

C'est heureusement une minorité, tout comme les français qui refuseraient de parler anglais "par principe".

2

At first, all Principe gets is a “dirty gray lump”.

3

To quote from Machiavelli's Il Principe, from the 1500's: "The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present." Want to go earlier?

4

I'll thrown an exception and handle it as an api error" [Later, somewhere near the equator] "?!?!??!" ------------------ "Ok, we learned our lesson from what happened to our customers in Sao Tome and Principe: 0.0 is a perfectly valid latitude to have.

Proper noun examples

1

My opinion about the shape of the earth is and should be stronger than my opinion about the hilliness of sao tome and Principe.

2

> I recently read The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence Principe, which I loved, especially because he tries to replicate ancient alchemical recipes in his own lab.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use principe in a sentence?

There are also radar detector detectors, operating off the same principe - detecting the local oscillator of the receiver.

What does principe mean?

An Italian prince.

What part of speech is principe?

principe is commonly used as noun.