(n.) 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.
(n.) A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
(n.) A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(3) A backbench policy advisory group will be established to develop ideas.
(4) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(5) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(6) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
(7) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.
(8) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
(9) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(10) This is about the best experience for our users: the idea that the experience was lacking, the innovation was lacking and we weren't reaching that ubiquity."
(11) Bose grew up with the idea, as the child of a well-to-do Bengali family in Kolkata.
(12) The observations support the idea that the function of pericytes in the choriocapillaris, the major source of nutrition for the retinal photoreceptors, resides in their contractility, and that pericytes do not remove necrotic endothelium during capillary atrophy.
(13) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
(14) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(15) These results are consistent with the idea that RPE pigment dispersion is triggered by a substance that diffuses from the retina at light onset.
(16) These conclusions are consistent with those obtained from other techniques and support the idea that the effects of dopamine agonists on the activity of dopamine neurons and globus pallidus cells can provide an indication of the relative selectivity of these drugs for pre- or postsynaptic dopamine receptors.
(17) They also dismiss those who suggest that the current record-low interest rates mean countries could safely stimulate growth by raising their borrowing levels higher: Economists simply have little idea how long it will be until rates begin to rise.
(18) These results favour the idea that the factor present in peak II fraction might behave as an ouabain-like substance.
(19) You could also chat to local estate agents to get an idea of what kind of extension, if any, would appeal to buyers in your area.
(20) When the alternatives are considered, it seems most consistent with Piaget's ideas to regard both cognitive and affective phenomena as problem-solving organizations.
Momentum
Definition:
(n.) The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.
(n.) Essential element, or constituent element.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(2) The momentum flux theory describes such phenomena most appropriately.
(3) It has given momentum to innovative tendencies in psychiatry.
(4) At least four US air strikes appear to have slowed the momentum of the jihadists, Kurdish peshmerga forces said on Saturday.
(5) At times, they gained a momentum that took even the protagonists by surprise.
(6) The expression of emotions by vocal behavior gains momentum in man and is based on certain transformations of the CNS that were fundamental for the emergence of speech.
(7) They've repeatedly deflated the pressure from Portland when it threatens to build into dangerous momentum, and for the most part Borchers and Schuler, and sometimes Beckerman have been first to the most dangerous balls in their own box.
(8) Coleman, in his efforts to sustain the national team's momentum, will be particularly eager to keep Craig Bellamy in the lineup, although it was the persuasiveness of Speed that brought his return.
(9) If Microsoft partnered with a major local brand it could help drive Windows Phone momentum but, with the Nokia takeover imminent, this does not look likely to happen anytime soon.
(10) Green groups condemn Glencore involvement in Garden Bridge project Read more Meanwhile, disquiet over the bridge’s environmental credentials is gathering momentum.
(11) He’s got enough momentum to keep his fundraising going.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
(13) As his campaign gained momentum, many have been in denial.
(14) It’s time to count real delegates, not measure some notional concept of momentum.
(15) The results of the scattering experiments were almost independent of whether the NaDNA fibers were oriented parallel or perpendicular to the momentum transfer.
(16) Brown also said there was growing momentum for "advancing" the date of the next major UN climate change conference, due to be held in Mexico City in December 2011.
(17) Retail sales have held up surprisingly well , according to the Confederation of British Industry's August survey published on Thursday, suggesting that momentum continued into the early part of the third quarter.
(18) The world is profoundly different from how it was then.” Schneider says Momentum breaks down into trade unionists, “Bennites and post-Bennites” (who share the background of Corbyn, McDonnell and a lot of Momentum’s older activists), and the younger members, who cut their teeth with the anti-tax avoidance activists UK Uncut or the Stop The War coalition.
(19) In terms of lifelong participation, if we build the momentum up to the age of 11 and then it all disappears it’s really hard to re-engage again later.” Olympic legacy failure: sporting numbers plummet amid confusion and blame Read more It is a view shared by David Ellis, the headteacher at York high school, another establishment where sport is thriving.
(20) The momentum of provision has slowed down in recent years.