convention
Noun
(en noun)
A meeting or gathering.
- The convention was held in Geneva.
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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
- ”The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
The convening of a formal meeting
A formal agreement, contract or pact
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- ”The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
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- ”Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
Derived terms
* by convention
* coding conventions
* conventional, conventionally
* conventionalize
* conventioneer
* convention centre, convention center
* naming convention
* pictorial convention
* trade convention
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law
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).
Noun
(lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
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A particular such rule.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
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A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify “what happens,” without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
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(lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
A category of English “common law” petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to “equity”.
(lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
The police.
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(lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
Derived terms
* above the law
* against the law
* a law unto oneself
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* Avogadro’s law
* Beer-Lambert law
* Boyle’s law
* bylaw
* canon law
* Charles’ law
* civil law
* common law
* contract law
* corn laws
* Coulomb’s law
* criminal law
* de Morgan’s laws
* employment law
* family law
* Faraday’s laws
* federal law
* feudal law
* Fourier’s law
* Gauss’s law
* Graham’s law
* Gresham’s law
* Henry’s law
* Hooke’s law
* Hubble’s law
* international law
* into law
* Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
* Kerchoff’s laws
* law and order
* lawful
* lawgiver
* lawlike
* law lord
* lawmaker, law-maker
* law of cosines
* law of large numbers
* law of sines
* law of small numbers
* law of tangents
* law of the land
* law of the tongue
* lay down the law
* long arm of the law
* lynch law
* martial law
* Moore’s law
* Murphy’s law
* natural law
* Newton’s law of cooling
* Newton’s law of gravitation
* Newton’s laws of motion
* Ohm’s law
* physical law
* power law
* Poiseuille’s law
* possession is nine points of the law
* property law
* Roman law
* statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US)
* state law
* statute law (Commonwealth English)
* Stefan-Boltzmann law
* Stokes’ law
* sus law
* take the law into one’s own hands
* the law is an ass
* three laws of robotics
* unwritten law
* Zipf’s law
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Also spelled low.
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) a tumulus of stones
a hill
* 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
- You might climb the Law […] and behold the face of many counties.
Etymology 3
Compare (la).
Interjection
(en interjection)
(dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
References
Etymology] in [[:w:da:ODS, ODS]
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