law

1
[ law ]
/ lɔ /

noun

verb (used with object)

Chiefly Dialect. to sue or prosecute.
British. (formerly) to expeditate (an animal).

Idioms for law

Origin of law

1
before 1000; Middle English law(e), lagh(e), Old English lagu < Old Norse *lagu, early plural of lag layer, stratum, a laying in order, fixed tune, (in collective sense) law; akin to lay1, lie2

OTHER WORDS FROM law

law·like, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH law

law hypothesis theory (see synonym study at theory)

Definition for law (2 of 6)

law 2
[ law ]
/ lɔ /

adjective, adverb, noun Obsolete.

low1.

Definition for law (3 of 6)

law 3
[ law ]
/ lɔ /

verb (used with or without object), noun Obsolete.

low2.

Definition for law (4 of 6)

law 4
[ law ]
/ lɔ /

interjection Older Use.

(used as an exclamation expressing astonishment.)

Origin of law

4
First recorded in 1580–90; form of lord

Definition for law (5 of 6)

Law
[ law ]
/ lɔ /

noun

Andrew Bon·ar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/,1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
John,1671–1729, Scottish financier.
William,1686–1761, English clergyman and devotional writer.

Definition for law (6 of 6)

legal dictionary

noun

a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.

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British Dictionary definitions for law (1 of 4)

law 1
/ (lɔː) /

noun

Other words from law

Related adjectives: judicial, jural, juridical, legal

Word Origin for law

Old English lagu, from Scandinavian; compare Icelandic lög (pl) things laid down, law

British Dictionary definitions for law (2 of 4)

law 2
/ (lɔː) /

noun

Scot a hill, esp one rounded in shape

Word Origin for law

Old English hlǣw

British Dictionary definitions for law (3 of 4)

law 3
/ (lɔː) /

adjective

a Scot word for low 1

British Dictionary definitions for law (4 of 4)

Law
/ (lɔː) /

noun

Andrew Bonar (ˈbɒnə). 1858–1923, British Conservative statesman, born in Canada; prime minister (1922–23)
Denis. born 1940, Scottish footballer; a striker, he played for Manchester United (1962–73) and Scotland (30 goals in 55 games, 1958–74); European Footballer of the Year (1964)
John. 1671–1729, Scottish financier. He founded the first bank in France (1716) and the Mississippi Scheme for the development of Louisiana (1717), which collapsed due to excessive speculation
Jude . born 1972, British film actor, who starred in The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), and Sherlock Holmes (2009)
William. 1686–1761, British Anglican divine, best known for A Serious Call to a Holy and Devout Life (1728)

Medical definitions for law

law
[ lô ]

n.

A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority.
A set of rules or principles for a specific area of a legal system.
A piece of enacted legislation.
A formulation describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met.
A generalization based on consistent experience or results.

Scientific definitions for law

law
[ lô ]

A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of an ideal gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. The conditions under which some physical laws hold are idealized (for example, there are no ideal gases in the real world), thus some physical laws apply universally but only approximately. See Note at hypothesis.

Idioms and Phrases with law

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