Principle vs. Feature — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Principle and Feature
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Definitions
Principle➦
A principle is a proposition or value that is a guide for behavior or evaluation. In law, it is a rule that has to be or usually is to be followed.
Feature➦
Any of the distinct parts of the face, as the eyes, nose, or mouth.
Principle➦
A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning
The basic principles of justice
Feature➦
Often features The overall appearance of the face or its parts.
Principle➦
A general scientific theorem or law that has numerous special applications across a wide field.
Feature➦
A prominent or distinctive part, quality, or characteristic
A feature of one's personality.
A feature of the landscape.
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Principle➦
A fundamental source or basis of something
The first principle of all things was water
Feature➦
A property of linguistic units or forms
Nasality is a phonological feature.
Principle➦
A basic truth, law, or assumption
The principles of democracy.
Feature➦
In generative linguistics, any of various abstract entities that specify or combine to specify phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic properties of linguistic forms and that act as the targets of linguistic rules and operations.
Principle➦
A rule or standard, especially of good behavior
A man of principle.
Feature➦
The main film presentation at a theater.
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Principle➦
The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments
A decision based on principle rather than expediency.
Feature➦
A long, narrative movie, typically lasting more than one hour.
Principle➦
A fixed or predetermined policy or mode of action.
Feature➦
A special attraction at an entertainment.
Principle➦
A basic or essential quality or element determining intrinsic nature or characteristic behavior
The principle of self-preservation.
Feature➦
A prominent or special article, story, or department in a newspaper or periodical.
Principle➦
A rule or law concerning the functioning of natural phenomena or mechanical processes
The principle of jet propulsion.
Feature➦
An item advertised or offered as particularly attractive or as an inducement
A washing machine with many features.
Principle➦
(Chemistry) One of the elements that compose a substance, especially one that gives some special quality or effect.
Feature➦
Outward appearance; form or shape.
Principle➦
A basic source. See Usage Note at principal.
Feature➦
Physical beauty.
Principle➦
A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
We need some sort of principles to reason from.
Feature➦
To give special attention to; display, publicize, or make prominent.
Principle➦
A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.
Feature➦
To have or include as a prominent part or characteristic
The play featured two well-known actors.
Principle➦
Moral rule or aspect.
I don't doubt your principles.
You are clearly a person of principle.
It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.
Feature➦
To depict or outline the features of.
Principle➦
(physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
Bernoulli's Principle
The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.
The principle of the internal combustion engine
Feature➦
(Informal) To picture mentally; imagine
Can you feature her in that hat?.
Principle➦
A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle.
Feature➦
(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
Principle➦
A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
Feature➦
An important or main item.
Principle➦
An original faculty or endowment.
Feature➦
(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
Principle➦
(obsolete) A beginning.
Feature➦
(film) feature film
Principle➦
(transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
Feature➦
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
Principle➦
Beginning; commencement.
Doubting sad end of principle unsound.
Feature➦
(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
Principle➦
A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
The soul of man is an active principle.
Feature➦
The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
One of the features of the landscape
Principle➦
An original faculty or endowment.
Nature in your principles hath set [benignity].
Those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering.
Feature➦
(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
Principle➦
A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.
Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection.
A good principle, not rightly understood, may prove as hurtful as a bad.
Feature➦
(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
Principle➦
A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle.
All kinds of dishonesty destroy our pretenses to an honest principle of mind.
Feature➦
An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
Principle➦
Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; - applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc.
Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.
Feature➦
(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
Principle➦
To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
Governors should be well principled.
Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.
Feature➦
(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
Principle➦
A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct;
Their principles of composition characterized all their works
Feature➦
(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
Principle➦
A rule or standard especially of good behavior;
A man of principle
He will not violate his principles
Feature➦
(transitive) To star, to contain.
Principle➦
A basic truth or law or assumption;
The principles of democracy
Feature➦
(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
Principle➦
A rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system;
The principle of the conservation of mass
The principle of jet propulsion
The right-hand rule for inductive fields
Feature➦
To have features resembling.
Principle➦
Rule of personal conduct
Feature➦
The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
What needeth it his feature to descrive?
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature.
Principle➦
(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature);
The rationale for capital punishment
The principles of internal-combustion engines
Feature➦
The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
It is for homely features to keep home.
Feature➦
The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
And to her service bind each living creatureThrough secret understanding of their feature.
Feature➦
A form; a shape.
So scented the grim feature, and upturnedHis nostril wide into the murky air.
Feature➦
A prominent aspect of something;
The map showed roads and other features
Generosity is one of his best characteristics
Feature➦
The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;
An expression of pleasure crossed his features
His lineaments were very regular
Feature➦
The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;
The feature tonight is `Casablanca'
Feature➦
A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;
They ran a feature on retirement planning
Feature➦
An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles
Feature➦
Have as a feature;
This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France
Feature➦
Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;
She was sporting a new hat
