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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
idea
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a central idea
▪ This was a central idea in Marxist theory.
a clear picture/idea (=a good understanding)
▪ Some work experience should give you a clear idea of what the job involves.
a gift idea
▪ Here is another gift idea with children in mind.
a vague idea/notion
▪ The students only had a vague idea of what they were supposed to do.
abandoned...idea
▪ Because of the fog they abandoned their idea of driving.
abstract idea/concept etc
▪ the ability to translate abstract ideas into words
add weight to the suggestion/idea etc
▪ Recent research adds weight to the theory that the climate is changing.
be sb’s idea of fun (=be what someone enjoys doing – used especially when this seems strange to you)
▪ Camping in this rainy weather is not my idea of fun.
brainstorm ideas
▪ Employees get together and brainstorm ideas.
bright ideas
▪ He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money.
brilliant idea
▪ I think that’s a brilliant idea.
challenge a view/an idea/an assumption etc
▪ Viewpoints such as these are strongly challenged by environmentalists.
cherish a hope/an idea/a dream etc
▪ willingness to re-examine cherished beliefs
cling to the hope/belief/idea etc (that)
▪ He clung to the hope that she would be cured.
conflicting views/opinions/ideas
▪ There are conflicting opinions on what causes the disease.
convey an idea
▪ Art can be used to convey an idea.
crazy idea
▪ It’s an absolutely crazy idea.
discuss a plan/idea
▪ It’s a good idea to discuss your plans with your parents.
dismiss an idea/suggestion
▪ Both actors dismissed any idea of a romantic relationship between them.
draw on sb's ideas
▪ We hope that we will be able to draw on these ideas to develop the work further.
drop the idea
▪ The project was going to be too expensive so the idea was dropped.
endorse a proposal/an idea/a candidate etc
▪ The Prime Minister is unlikely to endorse this view.
express your views/opinions/ideas
▪ Everyone who attends the meeting will be given the opportunity to express their opinions.
formulate an idea/theory
▪ Darwin formulated the theory of natural selection.
fresh ideas
▪ We need some fresh ideas.
general idea
▪ I have a general idea of what I want to express.
good ideas
▪ She’s full of good ideas.
grandiose scheme/plan/idea etc
▪ grandiose schemes of urban renewal
hit on the idea of
▪ Then we hit on the idea of asking viewers to donate money over the Net.
ideas above her station (=higher than her social rank)
▪ Karen was definitely getting ideas above her station.
implausible theory/idea/explanation etc
▪ Margaret found his excuse somewhat implausible.
it seemed like a good idea
▪ Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
keen on the idea
▪ My flatmates want to have a party, but I’m not keen on the idea.
like the idea
▪ I didn’t like the idea of being a single parent.
nice idea
▪ I thought it would be a nice idea to send them some flowers.
novel idea/approach/method etc
▪ What a novel idea!
original ideas
▪ I don’t think George is capable of having original ideas!
played with the idea of
▪ After university, I played with the idea of teaching English in China.
pretty good idea
▪ The police have a pretty good idea who did it.
propagate...ideas
▪ The group launched a website to propagate its ideas.
put forward an idea
▪ In 1829 he put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting.
refute a hypothesis/a claim/an idea etc
▪ an attempt to refute Darwin’s theories
relish the prospect/thought/idea
▪ I don’t relish the thought of you walking home alone.
romantic notion/view/idea etc
▪ romantic notions about becoming a famous actress
▪ Like many New Yorkers, he had a romantic image of country life.
set ideas
▪ People had very set ideas about how to bring up children.
strong views/opinions/ideas
▪ She has strong views on education.
stupid idea/question
▪ Whose stupid idea was this?
the basic idea
▪ The basic idea is that science discovers the truth of how the world works.
the very idea/thought (=just an idea or suggestion)
▪ The very idea of acting on stage scares the pants off me.
toy with the idea of doing sth
▪ I’ve been toying with the idea of going to Japan to visit them.
vetoed...idea
▪ Jenny wanted to invite all her friends, but I quickly vetoed that idea.
wince at the memory/thought/idea
▪ I still wince at the thought of that terrible evening.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
▪ Here, he will say, is another fashionable and bad idea.
▪ The data suggests that it is a bad idea if you are heavy cigarette smokers.
▪ She had no doubt it would be a very bad idea for them to go in search of Oliver and Cobalt.
▪ Requiring a central bank to support a flagging currency will remain a bad idea after the union is formed, Tietmeyer said.
▪ Perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad idea to be slightly more circumspect about looking for her.
▪ A quick history lesson by their coaches may not be a bad idea.
▪ I saw my first queenie, chomping through a loch, and discovered that laughing underwater is a bad idea.
▪ Maybe the smoke was a bad idea.
basic
▪ The basic idea is that the quicker it produces its report the better.
▪ The basic idea was that using the seat belt takes time, to which the driver attaches a value.
▪ Its two basic ideas sound obvious, and neither is new.
▪ The sine function, hyperbolic tangent, and other non-linear variations on these basic ideas have also been used.
▪ The basic idea, in short, is that the problem of individuation should be approached from the horizon of ordinary everyday experience.
▪ The basic idea is to make public safety a community responsibility, rather than simply the responsibility of the professionals-the police.
▪ The basic ideas dominating the educational philosophy of Highlander are two-fold.
▪ The basic idea is quite simple: linguistic communication is a kind of problem solving.
bright
▪ A Newcastle school aims to open a shop to sell pupils' bright ideas.
▪ That bright idea, understandably, provoked howls of protest and is so obviously wrong that Rep.
▪ Moira was full of bright ideas about the mixing, and some synth effects she wanted me to lay down.
▪ In May 1988, Tudorbury dealers had the bright idea of fixing a football game with Harvard Securities.
▪ Angela soon had quite a bright idea.
▪ Your bright idea could even earn you some extra cash.
▪ But there's still plenty of venture capital out there looking for bright new ideas.
▪ Some one must have thought it was a bright idea, though.
clear
▪ These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead.
▪ However, investment without a clear idea of the electronic commerce architecture being built would be akin to driving with blinders on.
▪ She had no clear idea of what a mortgage was.
▪ What is important is the fact that it expresses a clear idea of what is being tested or studied.
▪ Is it possible to explain the asymmetry by way of a clear idea of power or capacity, ability, or disposition?
▪ Gates had always had a clear idea of what he wanted to be: the prime software supplier to the world.
▪ It is also necessary to set out a clear idea of what role the public and private sectors can play.
▪ But he had a very clear idea of the manner in which his Council should be conducted.
faintest
▪ Had Mrs Leigh the faintest idea what an imposition it was?
▪ I haven't the faintest idea of how to spell auf-wie-der-sein, but that's the word.
▪ But I haven't the faintest idea what to do.
▪ That was bad enough but what made it worse was that I hadn't the faintest idea what was wrong with them.
▪ She hadn't the faintest idea what this thing was.
▪ He looked embarrassed and said he didn't have the faintest idea.
▪ Besides, how could she crew efficiently when she didn't have the faintest idea of what she was supposed to do?
▪ The return to my house is strained by the thought that he still has not the faintest idea where he is going.
general
▪ Jack has got some great general idea.
▪ This image then supports the general idea of the duality found throughout all of nature.
▪ Similarly, although anything that exists is particular and individual, we can have general ideas.
▪ But I got the general idea.
▪ Chambers hoped to reconcile those readers with religious qualms to the general idea of transmutation.
▪ A general misery of ideas and means.
▪ It was a way of thought based on the general Hellenic idea that salvation is obtained by knowledge.
▪ The general idea is that the string is embedded in the program or operating system.
good
▪ But I thought that to have a saint's care was a good idea, even to my Protestant mind.
▪ The introduction and failure of this project provide a good idea of why a separate black economic agenda has always been stifled.
▪ It's a good idea if you can organise a space for each cat to call its own.
▪ Unless one is an experienced aquarist it is not a good idea to try to keep any but the more hardy species.
▪ It is a good idea to take off the grating occasionally and clean out any debris.
▪ You will also get a good idea as to how long training will take.
▪ The old tiger himself pronounced it a good idea, even if his friends had to listen in a state of uncharacteristic sobriety.
▪ In fact, it seemed like a good idea.
new
▪ Friction between the generations is exacerbated when younger staff grasp the new idea and their creativity is suddenly released.
▪ They were satisfied to learn, to come up with new ideas, and to nudge the field forward.
▪ He encourages initiative, new ideas.
▪ To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them.
▪ The designers experimented with new ideas in spatial forms and lighting.
▪ Mr Hashimoto has been anything but inspiring when it comes to new ideas.
▪ Surely this is too early to embark on new ideas - obscuring what we have so painstakingly created.
▪ They know that risk-taking is inherent in trying new ways and new ideas, but that this is what makes progress possible.
original
▪ In March 1973 the Trustees returned to the original idea of building a church hall attached to the Memorial hall.
▪ This is especially true of original and futuristic ideas.
▪ The balance of evidence seems to be swinging away from the original idea of swamp-dwelling giant dinosaurs to fully terrestrial habits.
▪ What better way to reward yourself for your original gardening idea.
▪ The original idea was that the library would be symmetrical with the entrance and stairs in the centre.
▪ They were all aspiring entrepreneurs, but so few of them had an original idea.
▪ My original idea of telling them together was a bad one.
▪ They are far from perfect: a gulf appears naturally between their original ideas and their new found pedestal.
very
▪ Indeed, for many the very idea of attaining a political focus has been discarded in favour of a celebration of fragmentation.
▪ The very idea of taking drugs disgusted me.
▪ He rejects, it is true, the very idea of consistency in principle as important for its own sake.
▪ Dorothy would leave and abandon her at the very idea.
▪ But I would never want to upset anyone unless there was some very positive idea which we must try.
▪ The very idea of coming up with something so novel that no one has thought of it is daunting.
▪ The campaign in the popular press mobilised a backlash against the very idea of the welfare state itself.
▪ Ockleton, true to his academic training, had been disposed to dismiss the very idea of such a connection.
whole
▪ In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion.
▪ But it makes the whole idea of the endowment more real to attach a name to the donor.
▪ But after a few months, I felt completely bored with the whole idea.
▪ The more grandiose their mad ark visions got, the more interested in the whole idea they all became.
▪ Slowly we began to take the whole idea of the band more seriously.
▪ Besides, one young professor observed indignantly at a faculty meeting, the whole idea was degrading.
▪ Maybe she should postpone the whole crazy idea - or better still, drop it altogether.
▪ I had been resisting the whole idea of focus groups-when you went out and talked to pickle eaters.
■ VERB
abandon
▪ This process abandons the old idea that it is necessary to start with a two-carbon feedstock to make the two-carbon acetic acid.
▪ After discreet soundings, they prudently abandoned the idea, which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence.
▪ With a sense of relief I abandoned my idea of escape.
▪ Why have you abandoned the idea?
▪ The shadow cabinet decided in April 1912 that it would abandon the referendum idea and return to the full tariff policy.
▪ Nevertheless, the appearance of Forbes' paper led Darwin to abandon any idea of a separate publication on the topic.
develop
▪ Imagine writing the books in which he develops these ideas.
▪ But we can not assume that humans would naturally or inevitably develop such distorted ideas.
▪ Put briefly, there developed an idea of the pervasive religious and moral responsibility of the ruler.
▪ Katz and Kahn have developed ideas on how leadership can contribute to the functioning of a system.
▪ Bird flew high above the simple pop songs upon which they were based, developing new ideas and melodies on the spot.
▪ Why doesn't Ferry ask instead why some Western companies didn't buy these companies or develop those ideas?
▪ Lesser men, together with the conscientious and immeasurably learned John Stuart Mill, refined, developed and organized the ideas.
get
▪ Have you got any idea of the number of things I have to keep track of every day?
▪ They definitely should phone a number of people to get ideas from different caterers.
▪ Perhaps now she might get an idea of what went wrong.
▪ Then we got bigger ideas and bought our truck.
▪ Male speaker I got the idea when I was younger and lying in bed.
▪ Some one gets a good idea, and no one wants to be left out of it.
▪ And older women the world over got ideas.
give
▪ To give definiteness to our ideas let us take an illustration from the woollen trade.
▪ That gives you an idea of how hard it can rain.
▪ The one Masklin had found in the Store, the one that had given him the idea for driving the Truck.
▪ The following questions should give you some idea. 1.
▪ He says you give me ideas.
▪ To give you an idea of what to look out for, take a look at the photograph opposite.
▪ Can they give you an idea of the questions which will be asked?
▪ Jubilant, most gave up the idea of protesting in the freezing temperatures again, but approximately 1,000 persisted with their plan.
like
▪ But she didn't like the idea that we knew she was hiding something, did she?
▪ I like that idea, that you remember only the things that you like.
▪ She wanted to paint, my father didn't like the idea.
▪ They liked books and ideas, and they liked to talk about them in ways that fostered growth rather than established dominance.
▪ If I didn't like the idea, he dropped it.
▪ Henry liked the idea of being a single-parent family.
▪ Kelleher liked the idea and became a minor investor.
reject
▪ The Committee stands by the decision in Morgan and rejects the idea that belief in consent should be required to be reasonable.
▪ But I reject the idea that it should never be changed.
▪ We have just seen how Kierkegaard rejected any idea that faith could be proved by the appeal to historical argument.
▪ But almost in the same instant she rejected that idea.
▪ Brady, however, rejected the idea.
▪ I know that the House will reject that idea.
▪ The next day the rebels rejected the idea of peace talks, insisting that he should leave the country.
▪ More generally, Weber rejected the idea that sociologists could generalise about social structures by using the analysis of modes of production.
share
▪ Conservation swap Global pollution could be more effectively tackled if countries would share their conservation ideas.
▪ Have each group share its ideas.
▪ It will celebrate the successes of science teaching in schools and colleges and will share the latest ideas.
▪ At the seminar I met a number of interesting people and explored ways we could interact by sharing ideas.
▪ I wish I thought that his colleagues were beginning to share that idea - perhaps we have an alliance here.
▪ In those sessions employees have shared ideas that have become company traditions.
▪ As I notice various strategies I frequently draw the class together and encourage them to share ideas.
▪ Ask the students to share their ideas for pictures.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(that's a) good idea/point/question
a bright idea
bounce ideas off sb
▪ He bounced ideas off colleagues everywhere he went, and they were greeted with enthusiasm.
▪ Is there some one I can bounce ideas off?
▪ They can bounce ideas off one another and provide a mutual critique or one another's work.
▪ We could bounce ideas off each other and share problems.
▪ You can bounce ideas off them and benefit from their expertise, as they have often been self-employed themselves.
buck your ideas up
▪ Meanwhile, both Severiano Ballesteros and Jose-Maria Olazabal had bucked their ideas up.
entertain an idea/hope/thought etc
▪ He had entertained thoughts of marrying her and raising a family, but he entered the Society instead.
▪ Most significantly on my sense of a distant but still valid national identity-until then I had entertained hopes of return.
exchange information/ideas etc
▪ As they exchanged ideas and memories, both felt richer.
▪ Both sides also agreed to exchange information on a weekly basis between senior military commanders on troop deployments and movements.
▪ Bulletin boards are a low-tech way to exchange information.
▪ Children exchange information with one another in their conversations and learn to view events from the position of others.
▪ He needs to be able to exchange ideas, express moods and emotions.
▪ Meeting together at a disability arts event can also provide rare opportunities for disabled people to exchange ideas.
▪ The meetings provided an opportunity to exchange information about future events and to discuss problems of mutual interest.
▪ There are no formal ties between the national clearinghouses but they maintain regular contact, and exchange information, newsletters and materials.
exchange of ideas/information etc
▪ Can an exchange of ideas across different languages be of any general value?
▪ Click on an icon to begin an exchange of ideas.
▪ Clubs provide education, exchange of ideas and often show a profit.
▪ Communication problems may occur in the exchange of information and the expression of emotion.
▪ It does mean learning to cultivate the exchange of ideas and viewpoints.
▪ Oppenheimer also knew that science can not proceed without the free exchange of information.
▪ The key factor is the exchange of information to deal with international crime.
▪ They defined administration as routine communication activities such as paperwork and exchange of information.
form an opinion/impression/idea
▪ Members of the jury must not have formed opinions from publicity before the trial.
▪ Among those who have formed an opinion, more say public projects should go on the ballot than not.
▪ He conceded to Franceschelli that actually being present during the autopsy might have given him better information to form an opinion.
▪ He was in no state to form an idea of what we were talking about.
▪ It is the auditor's responsibility to form an opinion on the truth and fairness of the accounts.
▪ Nor that we should not form opinions or make evaluations.
▪ So gather information about your child, rather than forming opinions and judgments.
▪ Yet, along with journalists, poets, literary figures, and agitators, they do help form opinions.
▪ You should try to form an impression of the person the adjectives describe.
get hold of an idea/an impression/a story etc
give (sb) an impression/a sense/an idea
have a vague idea/feeling/recollection etc (that)
▪ I can remember nothing of them, but I have a vague feeling of having been well cared for.
have big ideas/plans
▪ Waller has big plans for her retirement.
▪ I have big plans for Selina.
▪ They have big plans for their life together.
have fixed ideas/opinions
mistaken belief/idea/impression/view etc
▪ A thin, friendly man, he often gave the mistaken impression that nothing was too much trouble.
▪ Cannabis may have few immediate withdrawal effects and this again may give rise to the mistaken belief that it is not addictive.
▪ People have a mistaken idea about artists.
▪ Such a deeply mistaken belief can only come from a citizen of a country with a disciplinarian attitude to politics.
▪ That can lead to the mistaken impression that the principles do not fit businesses involved in services.
▪ The foregoing paragraphs dispose, it is hoped, of some mistaken ideas as to the state and progress of sexuality in adulthood.
▪ The most mistaken idea is that you can Xerox people and somehow clone a fully grown adult.
▪ This can give rise to the mistaken belief that cocaine is not an addictive drug.
not have the faintest idea
▪ I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.
not have the first idea about sth
not have the foggiest (idea)
▪ I don't have the foggiest idea what his address is.
▪ Before I go on, some of you may not have the foggiest what a fanzine is.
not have the remotest idea/interest/intention etc
plant an idea/doubt/suspicion (in sb's mind)
▪ Their conversation had planted doubts in Dennis' mind about the partnership.
punch holes in sb's argument/idea/plans etc
run away with the idea/impression (that)
▪ But don't run away with the idea it was all Jerusalem the Golden.
sb's idea of a joke
▪ Is this your idea of a joke?
▪ The dismembered leg sticking straight out of the rubbish was clearly his idea of a joke.
smarten up your act/ideas
▪ Despite the encouraging figures, the Chunnel has prompted ferry companies to smarten up their act, and offer better deals.
the germ of an idea/theory/feeling etc
▪ It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.
what's the big idea?
▪ Hey, what's the big idea? Who said you could borrow my car?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I have an idea," she said. "Why don't you come with us?"
▪ Ideas and customs used to be passed on intact down the generations.
▪ Ideas of how society should function have changed dramatically in the last 200 years.
▪ an idea for a new TV game show
▪ Do you agree generally with Marx's ideas?
▪ Here are some new ideas for quick meals that taste great.
▪ How old is the idea that there is life after death?
▪ I never wanted to go to Spain. It was Sue's idea.
▪ medieval ideas about the origins of the universe
▪ Nobody seemed very keen on the idea that we should all dress up for the party.
▪ That's a good idea!
▪ The idea behind the commercials is that reading is as cool and entertaining as their favorite bands.
▪ The idea of an underground garage in the park has provoked a lot of anger.
▪ The idea of the centre was to provide a place where old people could go during the day.
▪ We're trying to think of a name for the book. Does anyone have any ideas?
▪ We make toys that are both fun and educational - at least that's the idea.
▪ Who's idea was it to ask him to the party?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a general rule, it is a good idea not to choose the same accountant as your manager.
▪ He also uses personification rather a lot throughout the novel to give us more of an idea of what he was experiencing.
▪ Individual students contribute to the knowledge base as authors and are acknowledged when others use their ideas.
▪ Men and women alike listen to others' ideas and sympathise with their problems.
▪ The balanced-budget amendment would be a bad idea under any circumstances.
▪ Where did the new ideas come from?
▪ Yet, as was suggested earlier in this section, new ideas were being bandied about.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idea

Idea \I*de"a\, n.; pl. Ideas. [L. idea, Gr. ?, fr. ? to see; akin to E. wit: cf. F. id['e]e. See Wit.]

  1. 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.

    Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
    --Fairfax.

    Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind.
    --Shak.

    This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea.
    --P. Browne.

  2. A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.

    Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.
    --L. Caroll.

  3. 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.

    Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call idea.
    --Locke.

  4. A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.

    That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
    --Johnson.

    What is now ``idea'' for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, ``how it showed . . . Answering his great idea,'' to its present use, when this person ``has an idea that the train has started,'' and the other ``had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!''
    --Trench.

  5. A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.

    I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an idea of undertaking while there the translation of the work.
    --W. Irving.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

    Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his great idea.
    --Milton.

    Note: ``In England, Locke may be said to have been the first who naturalized the term in its Cartesian universality. When, in common language, employed by Milton and Dryden, after Descartes, as before him by Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker, etc., the meaning is Platonic.''
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

    Abstract idea, Association of ideas, etc. See under Abstract, Association, etc.

    Syn: Notion; conception; thought; sentiment; fancy; image; perception; impression; opinion; belief; observation; judgment; consideration; view; design; intention; purpose; plan; model; pattern.

    Usage: There is scarcely any other word which is subjected to such abusive treatment as is the word idea, in the very general and indiscriminative way in which it is employed, as it is used variously to signify almost any act, state, or content of thought.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
idea

late 14c., "archetype of a thing in the mind of God; Platonic `idea,'" from Latin idea "idea," and in Platonic philosophy "archetype," from Greek idea "ideal prototype," literally "the look of a thing (as opposed to the reality); form; kind, sort, nature," from idein "to see," from PIE *wid-es-ya-, suffixed form of root *weid- "to see" (see vision). Sense of "result of thinking" first recorded 1640s.\n\nMen of one idea, like a hen with one chicken, and that a duckling.

[Thoreau, "Walden"]

\nIdée fixe (1836) is from French, literally "fixed idea."\n
Wiktionary
idea

n. (context philosophy English) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples. (from 14th c.)

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WordNet
idea

  1. n. the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" [syn: thought]

  2. a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"

  3. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take" [syn: estimate, estimation, approximation]

  4. 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" [syn: mind]

  5. (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" [syn: theme, melodic theme, musical theme]

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Wikipedia
Idea (political party)

IDEA, formerly known as Alliance of the New Citizen (, ANO), Free Word Party of Nora Mojsejová (, SSS-NM) and CITIZENS is a political party in Slovakia. The party was founded in 2001 and it was part of the governing coalition in Slovakia from October 2002 to September 2005. It changed its name from ANO to SSS in November 2011, when Eleonóra Mojsejová a Slovak businesswoman and TV personality took over the party. The party changed its name to OBČANIA in 2013 and in 2014 to IDEA. The president is Miroslav Leňo.

Idea (genus)

Idea is a genus of butterflies known as Tree Nymphs or Paper butterflies. The member species are concentrated around southeast Asia. See Sevenia for the genus of African tree nymphs.

Idea (disambiguation)

An idea is an image existing or formed in the mind.

Idea or IDEA or similar may also refer to:

Idea (TV special)

Idea was a television special starring the Bee Gees with Brian Auger and The Trinity, Julie Driscoll and Lil Lindfors. It was aired on 11 December 1968 on Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). The TV special was produced by Michèle Arnaud and directed by Jean-Christophe Averty

IDEA (supermarkets)

IDEA is a retail chain in Serbia, with a constant market share growth since 2005, when the first store was opened in Belgrade. IDEA is part of the Agrokor Group, one of the largest companies in Southeast Europe, focused on food and beverages production and distribution. After the merger of Mercator-S and IDEA in 2014, IDEA became the largest retail chain in Serbia, with over 300 shops in almost 100 cities.

IDEA is one of the founders and largest partners in the customer loyalty program SuperKartica, established in 2013.

Idea

In philosophy, ideas are usually construed as mental representational images of some object. Ideas can also be abstract concepts that do not present as mental images. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being. The capacity to create and understand the meaning of ideas is considered to be an essential and defining feature of human beings. In a popular sense, an idea arises in a reflexive, spontaneous manner, even without thinking or serious reflection, for example, when we talk about the idea of a person or a place. A new or original idea can often lead to innovation.

Idea (album)

Idea is the fifth album by the Bee Gees. Released in September 1968, the album sold over a million copies worldwide. The album was issued in both mono and stereo pressings in the UK. The artwork on the Polydor release designed by Wolfgang Heilemann featured a lightbulb with a group photo in its base, while the North American ATCO release designed by Klaus Voormann featured a composite head made from each band member. It was their third internationally released album - the first two albums being released only in the Australian market.

" I've Gotta Get a Message to You" and " I Started a Joke" were both released as singles in North America. In the UK, Message was only released as a single and "I Started a Joke" was only an album track, though another album track, " Kitty Can", was featured on the B-side of "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" for buyers who could not afford the album.

The North American ATCO LP and the South African Polydor LP replaced " Such a Shame" with "I've Gotta Get a Message to You". Both songs were included when the album was released on CD in 1989.

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Usage examples of "idea".

The Empress might have enough support among the nobles to keep a precarious hold on her throne, but she had made no overtures to the common folk, and they were solidly opposed to the idea of an Aberrant ruler.

The candidate who aspired to the virtue of evangelical poverty, abjured, at his first entrance into a regular community, the idea, and even the name, of all separate or exclusive possessions.

StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.

Idea to hearth and home, it would become a new thing, for it would cease to be the thing apart, the ground of all else, the receptacle of absolutely any and every form.

Kosmos into a flatland interlocking order of holistic elements, with the embarrassed subject dangling over the flatland holistic world with absolutely no idea how it got there.

After breakfast I sent for mine host and ordered an excellent supper for five persons, feeling certain that Don Sancio, whom I expected in the evening, would not refuse to honour me by accepting my invitation, and with that idea I made up my mind to go without my dinner.

The other dominant idea of the early years was the notion of monasticism, the idea that full spirituality is best achieved by renouncing the world and all its temptations.

I think we can show that if this idea is adopted, it will open the door toward eventually making many of those reductions and achieving most of our goals.

They never would have entertained such a strange idea if they had been acquainted with cabalistic science.

Thenceforth, he contented himself with quick looks and glances, easily interpreted, or by some acquiescent motions of his hands, when such could be convenient, to emphasise his idea of the correctness of any inference.

The Brahmins carry this idea into the next life, and say that the departing spirit carries with him nothing except this individual character, no acquirements or information or extraneous culture.

He tried again and again to get Scott to talk about his idea for utilizing some of the Overhulse acreage to build clean but cheap housing.

It made Addle feel like he was sorting through her mind, opening up certain ideas and shuffling aside others.

My idea runs counter to general opinion, but the evidence I adduce for it is found on Egyptian monuments.

Actually, as little as I liked the idea of being beholden to Aden at this particular moment, it struck me as a great idea.