LAWS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Laws mean? 

• LAWS (noun)
  The noun LAWS has 1 sense:

1. the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit

  Familiarity information: LAWS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAWS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Laws; Pentateuch; Torah

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 

Altogether I was lost in amazement, and sat staring at her, quite oblivious, I am afraid, of the laws of politeness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thanks to the lessons of Felix and the sanguinary laws of man, I had learned now to work mischief.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Besides the law of meat, there were a myriad other and lesser laws for him to learn and obey.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Termination of pregnancy under conditions allowed under local laws.

(Legally Induced Abortion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

He cannot go where he lists; he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws—why we know not.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They shook him with lines of thought that were new to him; and gave him insights, not into new biological laws, but into new applications of the old laws.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Describes behavior that ignores the rights of others and the practices and laws of society.

(Antisocial, NCI Dictionary)

The study of the application of mechanical laws and the action of forces to living structures.

(Biomechanics, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

That is to say, Lord Avon, that any defence which you may have to make will be decided upon by your peers and by the laws of your country.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This youth is a scholar from Cambrig, where men are wont to be blown out by a little knowledge, and lose the use of their hands in learning the laws of the Romans.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)