Capital vs. Principal

the city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region

first in order of importance; main

wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available for a purpose such as starting a company or investing

denoting an original sum invested or lent

a letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names

the most important or senior person in an organization or group

the distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column

a sum of money lent or invested, on which interest is paid

(of an offence or charge) liable to the death penalty

a person for whom another acts as an agent or representative

(of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.

the person directly responsible for a crime.

excellent

a main rafter supporting purlins.

used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight

an organ stop sounding a main register of open flue pipes typically an octave above the diapason

A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.

First or highest in rank or importance.

A city that is the center of a specific activity or industry

Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.

Wealth, especially in the form of financial or physical assets, used in the production or accumulation of more wealth.

One who holds a position of presiding rank, especially the head of an elementary school, middle school, or high school.

Accumulated assets or advantages used for economic or political gain

A main participant in a situation, especially a financial transaction.

The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.

A person having a leading or starring role in a performance, such as the first player in a section of an orchestra.

Net worth.

An amount of capital originally borrowed or invested, as opposed to the interest paid or accruing on it.

Capital stock.

The most significant part of an estate, as opposed to minor or incidental components.

Capitalists considered as a group or class.

The person on behalf of whom an agent acts.

A capital letter.

The person having prime responsibility for an obligation as distinguished from one who acts as surety or as an endorser.

The top part of a pillar or column, typically having an ornamental design.

The main actor in the perpetration of a crime.

First and foremost; principal

(Architecture) Either of a pair of inclined timbers forming the sides of a triangular truss for a pitched roof.

First-rate; excellent

Primary; most important; first level in importance.

Relating to or being a seat of government.

Of or relating to a prince; princely.

Extremely serious

(mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.

Involving death or calling for the death penalty

The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business

The chief administrator of a school.

Relating to or being a capital letter.

The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).

(legal) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.

Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.

(legal) The primary participant in a crime.

(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.

(North America) A partner or owner of a business.

(countable) The most important city in the field specified.

(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.

(countable) An uppercase letter.

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.

The uppermost part of a column.

The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.

One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned

The chief or most important thing.

(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.

Of prime importance.

A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.

(computing) A security principal.

Excellent.

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.

(crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.

Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.

Uppercase.

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.

used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness

The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, - as distinguished from an accessory.

Of or relating to the head.

A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.

Of or pertaining to the head.

the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.

the educator who has executive authority for a school;

First in importance; chief; principal.

an actor who plays a principal role

Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.

capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.

the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

most important element;

The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.

That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.

Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.

An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

A chapter, or section, of a book.

assets available for use in the production of further assets

wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

a seat of government

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis;

a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

first-rate;

punishable by death;

of primary important;

uppercase;