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fundamentals

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Noun1.fundamentals - principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics"
basic principle, fundamental principle, basics, bedrock
principle - a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy"
ABC, ABC's, ABCs, first principle, first rudiment, rudiment, alphabet - the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
fundamentals
noun basics, laws, rules, principles, essentials, cornerstones, axioms, first principles, rudiments, sine qua non (Latin) teaching small children the fundamentals of road safety
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fundamentals [ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəlz] npl (= basics) → principes mpl de base
fundamentals [ˌfʌndəˈmɛntlz] npl → basi fpl, fondamenti mpl, principi mpl fondamentali
fundamentals [ˌfʌndəˈmɛntlz] npl → basi fpl, fondamenti mpl, principi mpl fondamentali


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But ploughed up to the primary rock of the matter, the two great principles laid down in the twin whaling laws previously quoted, and applied and elucidated by Lord Ellenborough in the above cited case; these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will, on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human jurisprudence; For notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines, has but two props to stand on.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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