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LAWS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit
Synonyms:
Laws; Pentateuch; Torah
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Meronyms (parts of "Laws"):
Book of Genesis; Genesis (the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers)
Book of Exodus; Exodus (the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses; God gave them the Ten Commandments and the rest of Mosaic law on Mount Sinai during the Exodus)
Book of Leviticus; Leviticus (the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents)
Book of Numbers; Numbers (the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt)
Book of Deuteronomy; Deuteronomy (the fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law)
Holonyms ("Laws" is a part of...):
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Hebrew Scripture; Tanach; Tanakh (the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings)
Context examples:
But in the central part of England there was surely some security for the existence even of a wife not beloved, in the laws of the land, and the manners of the age.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Magnetism in two dimensions is almost against the laws of physics due to the destabilising effect of fluctuations, but in this material, it seems to be true.
(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)
This prince took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into the manners, religion, laws, government, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him the best account I was able.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The opposite house on the horoscope wheel rules your other relatives—in-laws, stepparents, and stepsiblings, for example.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The center within the Food and Drug Administration that regulates biological products for human use under applicable federal laws.
(Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, NCI Thesaurus)
Scaling laws, like that discovered by the scientists, are known to accurately predict species numbers for plant and animal communities.
(Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species, NSF)
You must remember, Miss Brewster, that you are a new inhabitant of this little world, and that you do not yet understand the laws which operate within it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In his view he should himself have been heir of all my estates, and he deeply resented those social laws which made it impossible.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A coded value specifying the type of governance over which an entity has to make laws and enforce them.
(Jurisdiction Authority Code, NCI Thesaurus)
