principal part

The tracks reached all the principal parts of the city.

In contrast, the series of terms with negative powers is the principal part.

One principal part can sometimes be predicted from another, but not with any certainty.

It was that or losing a, er, principal part of himself.

The following table gives the principal parts for the 11-principal-part verbs.

"It is, indeed, a feast in which flowers play a principal part."

After all, a principal part of his job was to prevent this kind of thing.

Most verbs are regular enough not to require a knowledge of the principal parts.

The principal parts were mostly taken by the visitors.

The principal parts are provided in both printed and machine-readable form.

The four remaining leaves make up the actual map, which is divided into two principal parts.

For some classes of verbs, however, all principal parts can be predicted given the first one.

On his marriage in 1797 the partnership was dissolved, one principal part of the business being resigned to him.

This is the totally regular class, with the infinitive being the only principal part.

The tax was a principal part of the Labor Party's election platform.

"The principal part of the outfit was the electric motor.

The fort then became a principal part in the defense of the Reims sector.

Most irregular French verbs can be described with seven principal parts.

This was the principal part of the original main line of the canal.

The term principal part is also used for certain kinds of distributions having a singular support at a single point.

In particular, the principal part of at is .

Its building history covers 450 years, but the principal parts of the buildings are in Baroque style.

Strong verbs had four principal parts, from which the remaining forms could be derived.

At the same time she declared that promiscuity was a principal part of her sexual life and alcohol.

Rivers form the principal part of the water systems of Azerbaijan.