Crossword clues for notions
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"miscellaneous articles," 1805, American English, from notion with the idea of "clever invention."
Wiktionary
n. (plural of notion English)
Wikipedia
Notions are the specialised slang used, now or formerly, by pupils, known as men, at Winchester College. A notion is defined as "any word, custom, person or place peculiarly known to Wykehamists". The number of notions officially in use declines each year, with around 200 notions currently included in the official Notions book sent to New Men.
Some of the same words are used at other schools, in particular Eton and Charterhouse (e.g. both schools use "div", though with extended meanings), though there they are not referred to as "notions". A Wykehamist may however speak (e.g.) of "an Eton notion" or "an Oxford notion" in describing the vocabulary or traditions of another institution.
An example of a custom which is a notion is Morning Hills, when the whole school gets up early in the morning to meet on the top of St. Catherine's Hill, a nearby hill belonging to the college.
A personal notion is a personal right or privilege. For example, it is a "notion" of the Prefect of Hall (head boy) to be carried into class in bed.
An academic notion is one with no significance except as a question to be asked at notions examinā.
A bad notion is a solecism: either a non-notional mode of speech or action where a notion is expected, or an attempt at a notion that misfires. A purported notion not accepted as historically authentic may be described as spurious.
In sewing and haberdashery, notions is an umbrella term for a variety of small objects or accessories. Notions can include items that are sewn or otherwise attached to a finished article, such as buttons, snaps, and collar stays, but the term also includes small tools used in sewing, such as thread, pins, marking pens, and seam rippers. The noun is almost always used in the plural. The term is chiefly found in the United States, and was formerly used in the construction Yankee notions.
Usage examples of "notions".
It is rather our conclusion after an analysis of the structures of self, morality, notions of causality, types of cognition, and so on, that emerge at various stages of development.
Nagarjuna to be marks of the unreal: they are dualistic notions dependent upon their opposites, and thus are nothing in themselves.
All romantic notions Avelyn had held concerning sea voyages were long gone, washed away by the slow, creaking, rolling reality.
I could take solace in the twin notions that I had simply acted in accordance with the whims of the divine and fate, and that I might actually be making the world a better place while doing it.
Oblivious to my mood and the fearsome notions that wrestled for control of my mind, oblivious to the fact that I had sneaked down to the dungeon just the previous night.
I would be more than happy to disabuse them of any notions that their faith afforded them safekeeping in any way.
I suspect there is--and we can just put aside these foolish notions of you killing me, okay, Denyys?
He had kindled her fancy with those notions of a Sabbatical year and a Silver Wedding Journey, and when she was willing to renounce both he had persisted in taking her to see the ship, only to tell her afterwards that he would not go abroad on any account.
Even in the serious and perplexing situation in which he found himself he could not help being amused with her unliterary notions of literature, her conventional and commonplace conceptions of it.
What bizarre notions would run through his mind as he confronted his own mortality without having achieved any of his grandiose visions?
The old institutions and most of the officials would probably be tainted by the regime, and relying on them would inevitably mean a creeping return to old, corrupt practices and inefficient notions of administration.
Because of our well-demonstrated fallibilities, it rules out of court, beyond serious discourse, a wide range of uplifting images, playful notions, earnest mysticism and stupefying wonders.
However, in the course of looking deeply within ourselves, we may challenge notions that give comfort before the terrors of the world.
Except for the first week of introductory philosophy courses, though, the names and notions of the early lonians are almost never mentioned in our society.
Because our notions, both hereditary and learned, of how Nature works were forged in the millions of years our ancestors were hunters and gatherers.