Provision vs. Principle — What's the Difference?

The act of providing or supplying something

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.

The act of making preparations for a possible or future event or situation

A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning

Something provided

A general scientific theorem or law that has numerous special applications across a wide field.

Provisions Necessary supplies, such as food and clothing, as for a journey.

A fundamental source or basis of something

A preparatory action or measure

A basic truth, law, or assumption

A particular requirement in a law, rule, agreement, or document

A rule or standard, especially of good behavior

To supply with provisions.

The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments

To take preparatory action or measures

A fixed or predetermined policy or mode of action.

An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.

A basic or essential quality or element determining intrinsic nature or characteristic behavior

The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

A rule or law concerning the functioning of natural phenomena or mechanical processes

Money set aside for a future event.

(Chemistry) One of the elements that compose a substance, especially one that gives some special quality or effect.

(accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.

A basic source. See Usage Note at principal.

(law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.

A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.

(Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.

A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.

A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.

Moral rule or aspect.

(transitive) To supply with provisions.

(physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.

To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system.

A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.

The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.

That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.

An original faculty or endowment.

Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; - often in the plural.

Misspelling of principal

That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.

(obsolete) A beginning.

A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.

(transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.

A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.

Beginning; commencement.

To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.

A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.

A stipulated condition;

An original faculty or endowment.

The activity of supplying or providing something

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.

The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening;

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.

A store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms)

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.

Supply with provisions

To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.

A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct;

A rule or standard especially of good behavior;

A basic truth or law or assumption;

A rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system;

Rule of personal conduct

(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature);