The difference between Mistress and Principal

When used as nouns, mistress means a woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership, whereas principal means the money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

Mistress is also verb with the meaning: of a woman: to master.

Principal is also adjective with the meaning: primary.

check bellow for the other definitions of Mistress and Principal

  1. Mistress as a noun:

    A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: boss q1=applicable to either sex head q2=applicable to either sex leader q3=applicable to either sex"

    "ant master"

    "She was the mistress of the estate-mansion, and owned the horses."

  2. Mistress as a noun:

    A female teacher.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: schoolmarm"

    "ant master"

    "games mistress'"

  3. Mistress as a noun:

    The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: bit on the side q1=applicable to either sex fancy woman comaré goomah Thesaurus:mistress"

    "ant cicisbeo fancy man"

  4. Mistress as a noun:

    A dominatrix.

    Examples:

    "ant master"

  5. Mistress as a noun:

    A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

  6. Mistress as a noun:

    A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Clarendon"

  7. Mistress as a noun (Scotland):

    A married woman; a wife.

  8. Mistress as a noun (obsolete):

    The jack in the game of bowls.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Beaumont and Fletcher"

  9. Mistress as a noun:

    A female companion to a master

  10. Mistress as a noun:

  11. Mistress as a noun:

  1. Mistress as a verb (transitive, rare):

    Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.

  2. Mistress as a verb (intransitive):

    To act or take the role of a mistress.

  1. Principal as an adjective:

    Primary; most important.

    Examples:

    "Smith is the principal architect of this design."

    "The principal cause of the failure was poor planning."

  2. Principal as an adjective (obsolete, Latinism):

    Of or relating to a prince; princely.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Edmund Spenser"

  1. Principal as a noun (finance, uncountable):

    The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

    Examples:

    "A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest."

  2. Principal as a noun (North America, Australia, New Zealand):

    The chief administrator of a school.

  3. Principal as a noun (UK, Canada):

    The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

  4. Principal as a noun (legal):

    A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.

    Examples:

    "When an attorney represents a client, the client is the principal who permits the attorney, the client′s agent, to act on the client′s behalf."

    "My principal sells metal shims."

  5. Principal as a noun (legal):

    The primary participant in a crime.

  6. Principal as a noun (North America):

    A partner or owner of a business.

  7. Principal as a noun (music):

    A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.

  8. Principal as a noun (architecture, engineering):

    The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.

  9. Principal as a noun:

    The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

    "rfquotek J. H. Walsh"

  10. Principal as a noun:

    One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Oxf. Gloss."

  11. Principal as a noun (obsolete):

    An essential point or rule; a principle.

  12. Principal as a noun:

    A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

  13. Principal as a noun (computing):

    A security principal.

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