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Noun
/īˈdēə/,
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ideas, plural;
  1. A thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action
    • - they don't think it's a very good idea
  2. A concept or mental impression
    • - our menu list will give you some idea of how interesting a low-fat diet can be
  3. An opinion or belief
    • - nineteenth-century ideas about drinking
  4. A feeling that something is probable or possible
    • - he had an idea that she must feel the same
  5. The aim or purpose
    • - I took a job with the idea of getting some money together
  6. (in Platonic thought) An eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies

  7. (in Kantian thought) A concept of pure reason, not empirically based in experience


  1. (idea) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
  2. (idea) mind: 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"
  3. (idea) a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"
  4. (idea) estimate: an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"
  5. (idea) theme: (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
  6. iDeaS is a plugin-based Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS emulator for Microsoft Windows and Linux, using the GTK+ toolkit.
  7. Ideas is a long running scholarly radio documentary show on CBC Radio One. Premiering in 1965 under the title The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight, it is currently hosted by Paul Kennedy and is on between 9:05 and 10:00 each weekday evening.
  8. In recent years a serious human rights violations has been witness when under the illegal and atrocious directions of Farooq Warind hundreds of permanent employees had been laid off including Mr.Sikander Aziz who is the pioneer of textile marketing in Pakistan. ...
  9. (Idea) In the most narrow sense, an idea is just whatever is before the mind when one thinks. Very often, ideas are construed as representational images; i.e. images of some object. In other contexts, ideas are taken to be concepts, although abstract concepts do not necessarily appear as images. ...
  10. (Idea (album)) Idea is the Bee Gees' fifth studio album, and their third international release on the ATCO label in the US and Polydor in the UK. Released in August, 1968 (see 1968 in music), the album sold over a million copies worldwide. ...
  11. (IDEA (cipher)) In cryptography, the International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA) is a block cipher designed by James Massey of ETH Zurich and Xuejia Lai and was first described in 1991. As a block cipher, it is also symmetric. ...
  12. (idea) 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.]; The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal. [16th-19th c. ...
  13. (IDEA (International Data Encryption Algorithm)) A private key encryption-decryption algorithm that uses a key that is twice the length of a DES key.
  14. (IDeA) Improvement and Development Agency.
  15. (IDEA) International Data Exchange Association. Organization based in Brussels that promotes the global expansion of EDI.
  16. (IDEA) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
  17. ((IDEA)) Developed in Switzerland and used in PGP 2.x as the symmetrical encryption algorithm. For non-commercial use in PGP licensing fees are waved, for commercial use licenses must be purchased (see What's with the patent on IDEA?). ...
  18. (1. The idea) As mentioned in the previous episode, the idea is the hardest part. Luckily, after finding some stock photos I have inspiration.
  19. (IDEA) 1. A unit of information that represents an experience, feeling, or memory of perception of things physical or abstract, sensed or intuited, real or imagined.  2. A result of processing such units of information, alone or in combination with others. (See BEHAVIOUROME) (RW)
  20. (IDEA) A joint NEMA and NAED for profit e-commerce service provider. IDEA provides a private data exchange and data warehouse for the electro industry
  21. (IDEA) Integrated Data for Enforcement Analysis
  22. (IDEA) Integrated Double-beta decay European Activities. Joint Research Activity of ILIAS
  23. (IDEA) International Data Encrypion Algorithm, developed in Europe as an alternative to exportable American ciphers such as DES which were too weak for serious use. IDEA is a block cipher using 64-bit blocks and 128-bit keys, and is used in products such as PGP. ...
  24. (IDEA) International District Energy Association IDEA represents nearly 700 members who are district heating and cooling executives, managers, engineers, consultants and equipment suppliers from 12 countries. ...
  25. (IDEA) short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications, will give investors faster, more accurate and more useful information about public companies and mutual funds. ...