law
law - English
Pronunciation
Noun
law (countable and uncountable, plural laws)
- (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- The courts interpret the law but should not make it.
- In theory, entrapment is against the law.
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- property law
- commercial hunting and fishing law
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- There is a law against importing wallabies.
- A new law forbids driving on that road.
- The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.
- (more generally) A rule, such as:
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
- the law of self-preservation
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- the laws of playwriting and poetry
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- Synonyms: see law of nature
- the laws of thermodynamics
- Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
- This is one of several laws derived from his general theory expounded in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- the law of scarcity
- the law of supply and demand
- (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
- Grimm's law
- Dahl's law
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- They worked to maintain law and order.
- It was a territory without law, marked by violence.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- Here comes the law — run!
- then the law arrived on the scene
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- He is studying for a career in law.
- She has practiced law in New York for twenty years.
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- She went to university to study law.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- They were quick to go to law.
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- normal law; alternate law; direct law
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
Derived terms
- above the law
- administrative law
- admiralty law
- against the law
- alternate law
- Amara's law
- Amdahl's law
- Ampère's law
- as a matter of law
- attorney-at-law
- attorney at law
- Avogadro's law
- Baby Moses law
- basic law
- Baxter's law
- Beer-Lambert law
- Benford's law
- Bennett's law
- Betteridge's law, Betteridge's law of headlines
- Betz's law
- black-letter law
- black letter law
- blue law
- blue sky law
- Bode's law
- Bowley's law
- Boyle's law
- Bragg's law
- Brooks's law
- by-law
- bye-law
- bylaw
- canon law
- case law
- Cassie's law
- Charles' law
- Charles's law
- chemical law
- Christian sharia law
- chthonic law
- civil law
- civil law notary
- club law
- color of law
- combined gas law
- common-law
- common-law marriage
- common law
- company law
- con law
- conservation law
- constitutional law
- contract law
- Conway's law
- corn laws
- cosine law
- Coulomb's law
- court of law
- Cowgill's law
- criminal law
- cube-square law
- Curie's law
- customary international law
- Dalton's law
- Danth's law
- Darcy's law
- decisional law
- De Morgan's law
- de Morgan's laws
- Descartes law
- direct law
- divine law
- Dollo's law
- due process of law
- Duverger's law
- e-law
- Emmert's law
- employment law
- English and Welsh law
- English law
- Enoch Arden law
- Eroom's law
- every law has a loophole
- every law has its loophole
- family law
- Faraday's law
- federal law
- feudal law
- Finagle's law
- fiscal law
- Fourier's law
- Gauss's law
- Godwin's law
- Goodhart's law
- good law
- Good Samaritan law
- Graham's law
- Granger law
- granger law
- Grassmann's law
- Gresham's law
- Grimm's law
- Grosch's law
- Gustafson's law
- Hardy-Weinberg law
- have the law of someone
- heir-at-law
- heir at law
- Hellin's law
- Henry's law
- Hess's law
- Hilt's law
- Hirt's law
- Hofstadter's law
- Hooke's law
- Hubble law
- Hubble's law
- Hume's law
- ideal gas law
- in-law
- inheritance law
- international humanitarian law
- international law
- in the eyes of the law
- into law
- inverse-square law
- IT law
- Jim Crow law
- Joule's law
- judge-made law
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Kerchoff's laws
- Kirchhoff's current law
- Kirchhoff's voltage law
- labor law
- labour law
- Lambert's cosine law
- Lanchester's law
- law-abiding
- law-breaker
- law-enforcement
- law-trained
- law-way
- law-ways
- law agent
- law and order
- law binding
- lawbreaker
- law calf
- law clerk
- law court
- law day
- law dictionary
- law enforcement
- law firm
- lawful
- lawgiver
- law Latin
- law leather
- lawless
- lawlike
- law list
- law lord, Law Lord
- lawmaker, law-maker
- law merchant
- law of attraction
- law of averages
- law of conservation of mass
- law of contradiction
- law of cosines
- law of diminishing marginal utility
- law of diminishing returns
- law of double negation
- law of excluded middle
- law of Hobson-Jobson
- law of identity
- law of large numbers
- law of love
- law of markets
- law of nations
- law of nature
- law of non-contradiction
- law of noncontradiction
- law of nontriviality
- law of obligations
- law of one
- law of one price
- law of parsimony
- law of sines
- law of small numbers
- law of tangents
- law of the excluded middle
- law of the jungle
- law of the land
- law of the Medes and the Persians
- law of the sea
- law of the tongue
- law of unintended consequences
- law of war
- law review
- law school
- law suit
- law unto oneself
- lay down the law
- Leibniz's law
- Lemaître's law
- lemon law
- Lenz's law
- letter of the law
- Lewis's law
- limb of the law
- Little's law
- Littlewood's law
- long arm of the law
- Lotka's law
- Lyman's law
- lynch law
- Maine law
- malice in law
- man of law
- Marconi's law
- Mariotte's law
- maritime law
- martial law
- matter of law
- Meillet's law
- Menzerath's law
- Metcalfe's law
- Miles' law
- mob law
- Mooers's law
- Moore's law
- Muphry's law
- Murphy's law
- natural law
- necessity knows no law
- Newton's first law
- Newton's law of cooling
- Newton's law of gravitation
- Newton's laws of motion
- Newton's second law
- Newton's third law
- normal law
- Ohm's law
- Okun's law
- one's word is law
- operation of law
- organic law
- paenultima law
- Panini's law
- Pareto's law
- Parkinson's law
- Pascal's law
- Peirce's law
- penal law
- penultima law
- periodic law
- physical law
- Plateau's law
- Poe's law
- Poiseuille's law
- poor law
- positive law
- possession is nine-tenths of the law
- possession is nine points of the law
- Postel's law
- Pournelle's law
- power law
- precedential law
- Price's law
- private international law
- private law
- procedural law
- property law
- public international law
- public law
- question of law
- red flag law
- red letter law
- retroactive law
- Ribot's law
- Roman law
- Romeo and Juliet law
- rule of law
- Salic law
- Say's law
- Scots law
- Scottish law
- sharia law
- shield law
- sign into law
- sine law
- Snell's law
- Sod's law
- Son of Sam law
- sound law
- space law
- spirit of the law
- square-cube law
- stand-your-ground law
- Stang's law
- state law
- statute law
- statutory law
- Stefan-Boltzmann law
- Stigler's law
- Stokes' law
- Sturgeon's law
- substantive law
- sumptuary law
- sunset law
- sunshine law
- sus law
- suss law
- Szemerényi's law
- take law into one's own hands
- take the law into one's own hands
- tax law
- the law is a ass
- the law is an ass
- there oughta be a law
- there oughtta be a law
- there ought to be a law
- thief in law
- three-strikes law
- threefold law
- three laws of robotics
- Titius-Bode law
- tort law
- TRAP law
- trigger law
- trite law
- unwritten law
- van 't Hoff's law
- Verner's law
- Vierordt's law
- Virchow's law
- water law
- Weber-Fechner law
- Welsh law
- windward of the law
- Winter's law
- Wolff's law
- Worthington's law
- Zawinski's law
- zero-one law
- Zipf's law
Translations
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Verb
law (third-person singular simple present laws, present participle lawing, simple past and past participle lawed)
Noun
law (plural laws)
Noun
law (plural laws)
Related terms
Interjection
law
- (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
Anagrams
law - Fula
Adverb
law
law - Khumi Chin
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɔ˧/
Noun
law
law - Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /law/
Noun
law m (diminutive lawk, feminine equivalent lawowka)
Declension
Derived terms
- lawica
- lawik
- lawowy
law - Middle English
Noun
law
- Alternative form of lawe
law - Scots
Noun
law (plural laws)
law - Sranan Tongo
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lau̯/
Verb
law
Derived terms
law - Upper Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lau̯/
Noun
law m
Declension
Derived terms
- lawica, lawjace/-a/-y, lawowe/-a/-y
law - Welsh
Noun
law
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
glaw | law | nglaw | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Noun
law
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
llaw | law | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |