IDEA
\a͡ɪdˈi͡ə], \aɪdˈiə], \aɪ_d_ˈiə]\
Definitions of IDEA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
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a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"
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your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"
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the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
By Princeton University
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(music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
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a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"
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your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"
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the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
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A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
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Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
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A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
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A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
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A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
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A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
By Oddity Software
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The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
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A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
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Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
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A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
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A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
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A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
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A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
By Noah Webster.
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A mental image or picture; a conception of what ought to be; an abstract principle; opinion; belief; plan; a general notion; an impression.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Greek] The image or picture formed by the mind of any thing external, whether sensible or spiritual;—any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought;—a belief, doctrine, or opinion;—the complete conception of an object in its necessary elements, constituents, and relations;—one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have existed from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
