law

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /lɔː/|/loː/    美 /lɔ/|/loː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tumulus of stones. obsolete
  2. A score; share of expense; legal charge. dialectal,obsolete
  3. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. countable,uncountable,usually,with-definite-article
    — Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
  4. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.; The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic. countable,uncountable,usually,with-definite-article
    — property law
  5. A hill. Northern-England,Scotland,archaic
    — [Y]ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships.
  6. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.; Common law, as contrasted with equity. countable,uncountable,usually,with-definite-article
  7. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. countable,uncountable
    — There is a law against importing wallabies.
  8. A rule, such as:; Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.) broadly,countable,uncountable
    — "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
  9. A rule, such as:; A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — the laws of playwriting and poetry
  10. A rule, such as:; A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.) broadly,countable,uncountable
    — Observing pi is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation.
  11. A rule, such as:; A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.
  12. A rule, such as:; Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — the law of scarcity
  13. A rule, such as:; A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — Grimm's law
  14. A rule, such as:; One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC. broadly,countable,uncountable
  15. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules. countable,uncountable
    — They worked to maintain law and order.
  16. A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers). countable,informal,uncountable
    — Here comes the law — run!
  17. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc). countable,uncountable
    — He is studying for a career in law.
  18. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules. countable,uncountable
    — She went to university to study law.
  19. Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc.). countable,uncountable
    — They were quick to go to law.
  20. 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. countable,uncommon,uncountable
    — After a few minutes' waiting, two well-known runners, chosen for the hares, buckled on the four bags filled with scent, compared their watches with those of young Brooke and Thome, and started off at a long, slinging trot across the fields in the direction of Barby. Then the hounds clustered round Thome, who explained shortly, "They're to have six minutes' law."
  21. A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft. countable,uncountable
    — normal law; alternate law; direct law
  22. One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos. countable,uncountable
  23. 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".) countable,historical,uncountable
    — As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury.
动词 v.
  1. To work as a lawyer; to practice law. obsolete
    — That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?
  2. To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate. ambitransitive,dialectal
    — Your husband's … so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.
  3. To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern. nonstandard
    — At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there.
  4. To enforce the law. informal
    — De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot.
  5. To subject to legal restrictions.
    — Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been lawed and lawed until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied
感叹词 intj.
  1. An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks; in interjections, a minced oath for Lord. dated
    — ‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘Law Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’

词形变化

laws plural laws present,singular,third-person lawing participle,present lawed participle,past lawed past laws plural laws plural

词汇关系

近义词
act canon code convention constitution corpus decree dictate directive doctrine edict enactment guideline legislation mandate maxim order ordinance pandect prescription prohibition regulation rule standard statute tenet
衍生词
above the law administrative law admiralty law against the law alternate law Amagat's law Amara's law Amdahl's law Ammon's law Ampère's circuital law Ampère's force law Ampère's law arbitrary law Arndt-Schulz law as a matter of law Ashby's law astrolaw attorney-at-law attorney at law Atwood's Law Avogadro's law Babo's law Baby Moses law bad facts make bad law basic law Basquin's law Baxter's law Bayes' law Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law Beer-Lambert law Beer's law below the law Benford's law Bennett's law Betteridge's law Betteridge's law of headlines Betz's law BigLaw black-letter law black letter law blawg blue law blue sky law blue-sky law Bode's law book law Bouguer's law Bowley's law Boyle-Mariotte law Boyle's law Bradford's law Bragg's law Brandolini's law Brewster's law broken power law Brooks's law business law Buys Ballot's law bye-law bylaw by-law canon law Carnot's 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 commercial law common-law common law common-law marriage company law con law conservation law constitutional law contract law Conway's law Cope's law corn law corn laws corporate law corporation law cosine law Coulomb's law Coulter's Law counterlaw court of law Courvoisier's law Cowgill's law criminal law cube-square law Curie's law Curie-Weiss law customary international law cyberlaw Dahl's 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 Dybo's law ecclesiastical law Eichner's law e-law Emmert's law employment law Engel's law English and Welsh law English law Enoch Arden law Eroom's law Eurolaw every law has a loophole every law has its loophole extreme risk law family law Faraday's law Fechner's law federal law feudal law Finagle's law financial law fiscal law Fitts' law Fitts's law Fourier's law framework law gas law Gauss's law Gay-Lussac's law Geiger-Nuttall law God's law Godwin's law Gompertz-Makeham law Goodhart's law good law Good Samaritan law go to law Graham's law Granger law Grassmann's law Gresham's law Grimm's law Grosch's law Grotthuss-Draper law Gustafson's law Haldane's law hard cases make bad law Hardy-Weinberg law have the law of have the law of someone Healey's first law of holes Healey's law Heaps' law heir-at-law heir at law Hellin's law Henry's law Henry's law constant Hess's law Hilt's law Hirt's law Hofstadter's law Hooke's law Hubble law Hubble's law Hume's law Humphrey's law Hyrum's law ideal gas law immigration law inheritance law inlaw in-law international humanitarian law international law in the eyes of the law in the name of the law into law inverse-square law iron law IT law Jim Crow law Jordan's law Joule's law judge-made law Jurin's law Kepler's law Kepler's laws of planetary motion Kerchoff's laws Kirchhoff's current law Kirchhoff's voltage law Kluge's law Knight-Darwin law Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy Kohlrausch's law labor law labour law Lambert-Beer law Lambert's cosine law Lambert's emission law Lambert's law Lanchester's law law abider law-abiding law agent law and order law-biding law binding lawbook lawbot lawbreaker law-breaker lawbreaking law calf lawclerk law clerk lawcode law court lawcraft law day law dictionary law enforcement law-enforcement law-enforcer lawfare law firm lawful lawgiver lawgiving law Latin law leather lawless lawlike law list law lord lawly lawmaker law-maker lawmaking law merchant lawmonger law of attraction law of averages law of conservation of mass law of contradiction law of correspondence law of cosines law of demand law of diminishing marginal utility law of diminishing returns law of double negation law of excluded middle law of Hobson-Jobson law of holes law of identity law of large numbers law of love law of majestas 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 sufficient reason law of tangents law of the excluded middle Law of the Instrument 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 volumes law of war law report law reporter law review lawscape law school law shopping lawsome lawspeaker lawsuit law suit law-trained law unto oneself law-way law-ways lay down the law Leavitt 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 Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology Lyman's law lynch law Maas's law Maine law malice in law man of law Marconi's law Mariotte's law maritime law Marshall law martial law matter of law Meckel-Serres law Meillet's law Menzerath's law metalaw Metcalfe's law Miles' law military law Mitscherlich's law mob law Mooers's law Moore's law Muphry's law Murphy's law natural law necessity knows no law neurolaw 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 nonlaw normal law notary-at-law Ohm's law Okun's law one's word is law operation of law oral law organic law O'Sullivan's law outlaw paenultima law Panini's law Pareto's law Parkinson's law Pascal's law Paschen's law patent law Peirce's law penal law penultima law periodic law personal law physical law Plateau's law Poe's law Poiseuille's law poor law positive law possession is nine points of the law possession is nine-tenths of the law Postel's law Pournelle's law powerlaw power law precedential law prelaw Price's law private international law private law procedural law property law pseudolaw public international law public law question of law Raoult's law Rayleigh-Jeans law red flag law red letter law regulatory law retroactive law Ribot's law Riepl's law Roman-Dutch law Roman law Romeo and Juliet law rule of law Salic law Sanio's law Sarah's Law Say's law Schneier's law scofflaw Scots law Scottish law sergeant-at-law serjeant-at-law sharia law shield law Shine the Light Law Sievers' law Sievers's law Sieverts' 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 Stark-Einstein law state law statute law statutory law Stefan-Boltzmann law stepmother-in-law Stigler's law Stokes' law Sturgeon's law sublaw 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 hands take the law into one's own hands Talbot-Plateau law Talbot's law tax law Tay's 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 threefold law three laws of robotics three-strikes law Thurneysen's law Titius-Bode law TomSka's law Torricelli's law tort law trade law Tranzschel's law TRAP law trigger law trite law trust law ugly law unlaw unwritten law van der Waals law van 't Hoff's law Verner's law Vierordt's law Virchow's law von Babo's law water law Weber-Fechner law Weise's law Welsh law Westlaw Wiedemann-Franz law Wien's displacement law windward of the law Winter's law Wirth's law Wolff's law Worthington's law Yerkes-Dodson law Yog's Law Zawinski's law zero-one law Zipf's law Largo Law Warden Law
相关词
law of nature lawe

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *lagą
Old Norse lag
Old Norse lǫgbor.
Old English lagu
Middle English lawe
English law
From Middle English lawe, laȝe, from Old English lagu (“law”), borrowed from Old Norse lǫg (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots law (“law”), Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Faroese lóg (“law”), Norwegian lov (“law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”), Finnish laki (“law”). Compare typologically distant cognate Russian уложе́ние (uložénije). Displaced native Old English ǣ and ġesetnes. More at lay.
Not related to legal, nor to French loi, Spanish ley, all of which ultimately derive from Latin lēx, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”).
词源 2
From Northern Middle English lawe, from Old English hlāw (“burial mound”). Also spelled low. See also Scots law.
词源 3
From Middle English lagh, from Old Norse lag (“that which is lying or laid, position, price, way, sting, blow”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid”). Cognate with Scots lauch (“one's tavern-reckoning or one's share of the cost, a score; a payment for drink or entertainment”), Middle English lai (“one's share of expenses, one's bill or account”).
词源 4
Compare la and Lawd.
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