fancy vs principal

fancy

adj
  • Of a superior grade. 

  • Unnecessarily complicated. 

  • Executed with skill. 

  • Decorative, or featuring decorations, especially intricate or diverse ones. 

adv
  • In a fancy manner; fancily. 

verb
  • To appreciate without jealousy or greed. 

  • To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. 

  • would like 

  • To form a conception of; to portray in the mind. 

  • To breed (animals) as a hobby. 

  • To be sexually attracted to. 

  • To imagine, suppose. 

noun
  • A diamond with a distinctive colour. 

  • The object of inclination or liking. 

  • In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies). 

  • A whim. 

  • The imagination. 

  • A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing. 

  • Love or amorous attachment. 

  • The enthusiasts of such a pursuit. 

  • That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value. 

  • Any sport or hobby pursued by a group. 

  • An image or representation of anything formed in the mind. 

  • An opinion or notion formed without much reflection. 

principal

adj
  • Primary; most important; first level in importance. 

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

noun
  • The chief administrator of a school. 

  • A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ. 

  • 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. 

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

  • The primary participant in a crime. 

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

  • A security principal. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • A partner or owner of a business. 

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

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