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Definition: Idea |
IdeaNoun1. The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind". 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". 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". 5. Melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "idea" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Idea \I*de"a\, noun; plural Ideas. [Latin idea, Greek, see; akin to English wit: compare to French id['e]e. See Wit.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | IDEA 1. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Idea, Opinion. "Many persons think that the interior of the earth is a mass of fire; what is your idea?" Say, "What is your opinion?" Source: Slips of Speech. |
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IDEA may stand for:See also: Idea
- Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- International Data Encryption Algorithm
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Idea is a term used both popularly and in philosophical terminology with the general sense of “mental picture”. Today many people believe that ideas are a new sort of intellectual property like copyright, patent. Though some believe there is a realm where ideas exist and that we only “discover” ideas much like we discover the Wikiwiki world.To “have no idea how a thing happened”, is to be without a mental picture of an occurrence. In this general sense, it is synonymous with concept in popular usage. But idea may contain broader meaning. Say “a chair” can be an idea -- but surely not a concept.
Idea in philosophy
In philosophy, the term “idea” is common to all languages and periods, but there is scarcely any term which has been used with so many different shades of meaning. Plato used it in the sphere of metaphysics for the eternally existing reality, the archetype, of which the objects of sense are more or less imperfect copies. Chairs may be of different forms, sizes, colours and so forth, but “laid up in the mind of God” there is the one permanent idea or type, of which the many physical chairs are derived with various degrees of imperfection.From this doctrine it follows that these ideas are the sole reality (see also idealism); in opposition to it are the empirical thinkers of all time who find reality in particular physical objects (see hylozoism, empiricism, etc.).
In striking contrast to Plato’s use is that of John Locke, who defines “idea” as “whatever is the object of understanding when a man thinks” (Essay on the Human Understanding (I.), vi. 8). Here the term is applied not to the mental process, but to anything whether physical or intellectual which is the object of it.
Hume differs from Locke by limiting “idea” to the more or less vague mental reconstructions of perceptions, the perceptual process being described as an “impression.”
Wundt widens the term to include “conscious representation of some object or process of the external world.” In so doing, he includes not only ideas of memory and imagination, but also perceptual processes, whereas other psychologists confine the term to the first two groups.
G. F. Stout and J. M. Baldwin, in the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, define “idea“ as “the reproduction with a more or less adequate image, of an object not actually present to the senses.” They point out that an idea and a perception are by various authorities contrasted in various ways. “Difference in degree of intensity,” “comparative absence of bodily movement on the part of the subject,” “comparative dependence on mental activity,” are suggested by psychologists as characteristic of an idea as compared with a perception.
It should be observed that an idea, in the narrower and generally accepted sense of a mental reproduction, is frequently composite. That is, as in the example given above of the idea of chair, a great many objects, differing materially in detail, all call a single idea. When a man, for example, has obtained an idea of chairs in general by comparison with which he can say “This is a chair, that is a stool,” he has what is known as an “abstract idea” distinct from the reproduction in his mind of any particular chair (see abstraction). Furthermore a complex idea may not have any corresponding physical object, though its particular constituent elements may severally be the reproductions of actual perceptions. Thus the idea of a centaur is a complex mental picture composed of the ideas of man and horse, that of a mermaid of a woman and a fish.
“Idea” as property
Throughout the twentieth century the expression and fixation of ideas has become more commercialized as reproductive technologies have proliferated and driven the cost of the reproduction down. Capitalists have seen this as an opportunity to exploit the content of these reproductions by obtaining state sanctioned monopolies to prevent the unauthorized reproduction of content. What started with Victor Hugo and the Berne Convention as a means of protecting the economic livelyhood of authors and artists has turned into a faceless international propaganda machine that bombards individuals with an endless stream of product that is recycled to create more profits for corporate shareholders -- the individual artists and writers have lost their protection that was supposed to be guaranteed.Patents are a scheme to protect a new idea that has a functional manifestation as invention or know-how. Copyright law is a scheme to protect the expression of ideas like books, videodiscs, and datastreams. There are other schemes to protect designs and even laws to protect integrated circuit patterns. Those types of law are aimed to protect the value of expression for a limited period of time so that the creators or authors, or their designated assignee can exploit those ideas -- a form of monopoly. This area of law is quite complex and the bucket of entitlements that refer to these types of incorporeal property have come to be referred as intellectual property. With the development of digital reproduction the legal concept of fixation has become more an more ephemeral and it has become more difficult to control the reproduction of information that can exist in the digital domain. Some would say that this is the underpinniing idea behind the open source and GNU movements.
See also: intellectual property, The future of ideas, public domain
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- [Internet and Copyright in Japan (07-2002)] Andreas Bovens
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International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA) is a symmetric cypher algorithm used to encrypt and decrypt data. A key (which must be randomly chosen) is used to encrypt the data, and that same secret key is needed for decrypting the data again.
IDEA is the second version of a block cipher designed by Xuejia Lai and James L. Massey of ETH-Zurich. RSA Security [1] describes it this way:
RSA Security goes on to say that IDEA was analyzed to measure its strength against differential cryptanalysis. The analysis concluded that IDEA is immune to that technique. In fact, (says RSA Security), there are no linear cryptanalytic attacks on IDEA, and there are no known algebraic weaknesses in IDEA. The only weakness of note was discovered by Daemen [DGV94]: using any of a class of 251 weak keys during encryption results in easy detection and recovery of the key. "However, since there are 2128 possible keys, this result has no impact on the practical security of the cipher for encryption provided the encryption keys are chosen at random. IDEA is generally considered to be a very secure cipher and both the cipher development and its theoretical basis have been openly and widely discussed." [ibid.]
- [IDEA] is a 64-bit iterative block cipher with a 128-bit key. The encryption process requires eight complex rounds. Decryption is carried out in the same manner as encryption once the decryption subkeys have been calculated from the encryption subkeys. The cipher structure was designed to be easily implemented in both software and hardware, and the security of IDEA relies on the use of three incompatible types of arithmetic operations on 16-bit words. However some of the arithmetic operations used in IDEA are not that fast in software. As a result the speed of IDEA in software is similar to that of DES. [1]
IDEA encryption is somewhat faster and generally considered to be more secure than DES encryption. But IDEA is newer and therefore has not been as extensively tested, and it is patented which restricts its commercial use. The patent will expire in 2011.
Further Reading\[LM92] X. Lai, J.L. Massey and S. Murphy, Markov ciphers and differential cryptanalysis, Advances in Cryptology - Eurocrypt '91, Springer-Verlag (1992), 17-38.
[DGV94] J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, and J. Vandewalle, Weak keys for IDEA, Advances in Cryptology - Crypto '93, Springer-Verlag (1994), 224-231.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "International Data Encryption Algorithm."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
IDEA | English | Inter Institutional Directory of European Administrations | N/A |
IDEA | French | Annuaire interinstitutionnel des administrations européennes | Computing, European Union |
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Synonyms: IdeaSynonyms: approximation (n), estimate (n), estimation (n), melodic theme (n), mind (n), musical theme (n), theme (n), thought (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
Supposition | Conceit, idea, thought; original idea, invention (imagination). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Idea |
| English words defined with "idea": An abstract idea. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "idea": IDEA POT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "idea": Presensation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Idea" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (idea), Czech (idea), Italian (brainchild, conceit, idea, inspiration, intention, meaning, mind, notion, picture), Latin (idea), Papiamen (idea), Polish (idea), Spanish (belief, concept, conception, idea, ideates, impression, intention, memory, notion, opinion, outline, scheme, think, thought). |
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Screenplays | Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I mean, that just screws up my whole idea of good and evil and God. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) Perhaps the idea of becoming someone else for a little while (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Good idea. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) But you have no idea what it's like to be alone (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow.) | |
Lyrics | Don't get the wrong idea (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx) Had no idea how much I cared (Hard Habit to Break; performing artist: Chicago) I had no idea how this could be (You Sang To Me; performing artist: Marc Anthony) Than a crazy idea (Wrong Impression; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia) That's a good idea, break a promise to your mother (Never Let You Go; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Clever | A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on. (references; author: Mark Twain) A kid's idea of a balanced diet is a hamburger in each hand. (references; author: unknown) The idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. (references; author: unknown) A stand can be made against invasion of an army; no stand can be made against invasion of an idea. (references; author: unknown) You are an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Idea of North (1970) Idea di un'isola (1967) L' Idea fissa (1964) John A. Macdonald: The Impossible Idea (1961) La Grande idea (1960) | |
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 | USS VINCENNES in pack ice - Captain Charles Wilkes commanding On the Antarctic shelf, Wilkes sounded with copper wire in 400 fathoms First use of wire instead of hemp sounding line Copper too ductile and would break - gave up on idea. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Figure 19. Closing device for Chun and Petersen net first devised by Giuseppe Palumbo, commanding officer of the VETTOR PISANI. In the course of its around the world oceanographic cruise of 1882-1885, the idea to develop a helical clos ing device for a towed plankton net was developed. Prince Albert I of Monaco adapted this idea to a vertical net during the expedition of 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 57. Puhler sounder, described by Christian Puhler in 1563, repeated an idea first put forth by Cardinal Nicholas Pusanus a century earlier. The principle, was to attach a float to a weight making it heavier than water. Upon striking bottom, the float would detach. Depth would be derived from round- trip travel time. It is unknown if this device was ever field tested. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Brush and ink drawing of Mallards by Jay N. "Ding" Darling, a famous cartoonist and noted conservationist. The artist was chief of the Biological Survey, a precursor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, from 1934 to 1936. "Ding" conceived the idea of using duck stamps to raise money for the purchase of wetlands. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page Visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home. |
 | Her idea of scornful elegance. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | They are going to extend the board walk here in Atlantic City : Great idea -- with one end in Canada -- the finish in Cuba. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | It looks as though the Senator has the right idea but the wrong victim. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I've got an idea for '96- I go back, I beg forgiveness, play the whole redemption bit, the reformed underdog back from Hell, I get re-elected, we take over... / / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Now that everyone has advanced his little idea explaining their presence / F. Fox. Just one d-- thing after another / Phil Porter. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A suggestion box serves as idea headquarters at the Link Aviation Devices plant, Binghamton, New York. The war production drive headquarters offers national certificates and citations for ideas of outstanding value to the war effort and recommends that pl. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Legs, clothes and privacy 01" by Luciano Guedes Commentary: "I was there, doing nothing... then, I had an idea..." | "Bulldog spiral" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "I cast about 100 of these plaster dogs. I have no idea why. does anybody want one?." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Disraeli | My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. |
Feodor Dostoevski | Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | An idea is salvation by imagination. |
Frank Tyger-ferbes | Success is often just an idea away. |
Henry Ward Beecher | Suffering is part of the divine idea. |
James A. Froude | A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. |
Johann W. Von Goethe | When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place. |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy | A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. |
Jules Renard | A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | On the other hand I repulse the idea that a new war is inevitable; still more that it is imminent. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I have been making discoveries and forming plans, just like yourself, and I must tell them while the idea is fresh |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | Alice noticed, with some surprise, that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | She didn't even programme any coordinates, she hadn't the faintest idea where she was going, she just went - a random row of dots flowing through the Universe |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | There was one man, especially, the observation of whose character gave me a new idea of talent |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Imagine all this and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And this was the first time I began to conceive some imperfect idea of courts and ministers |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | First, it’s a good idea to know what happens to your body with menopause. (references) | |
This exam gives the doctor a general idea of the size and condition of the gland. (references) | ||
Da Vinci also developed the idea that the spinal cord transmits sensations to the brain. (references) | ||
Business | Greeks love the idea of owning their own business. (references) | |
The idea is to make industries more efficient through market mechanisms. (references) | ||
The principal idea is to increase the water capacity and to protect the rivers. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | The Council also expressed reservations about a government proposal to establish an Academy of Law, but the Chief Justice supported the idea as a good way to strengthen communication among different players within the legal system. (references) |
Hong Kong | One complaint was that the Government's reluctance to associate with the writer, most of whose works are banned in China, contributed to the idea that Hong Kong residents should "self-censor" their behavior with a view to PRC political sensitivities. (references) | |
Morocco | He also called a September 16 ecumenical ceremony in the Rabat cathedral "a big sin" for Muslims and stated that "the notion of dialogue among the three monotheistic religions is a Zionist idea." Kettan's uncensored criticism attacked the King both as the political and religious leader of the country. (references) | |
Economic History | Sierra Leone | He ultimately abandoned the idea. (references) |
Japan | However, the idea of a "bargain" and considerations of "value for money" have gained popularity. (references) | |
Libya | This discontent continued to mount with the rise throughout the Arab world of Nasserism and the idea of Arab unity. (references) | |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | The shooting may have been in response to a book Wak had published examining the idea of an Afghan federation on the basis of ethnic groups. (references) |
Turkey | In July a mainstream newspaper, Radikal, published alleged secret government autopsy reports and asserted that: Prisoners were responsible for the death of only one of the two Jandarma who died during the December Government intervention in the hunger strike; that Jandarma or prison guards used tear gas at inappropriately close quarters; that prisoners were shot at great distances, contradicting the idea that some had killed each other; and that some prisoners may have been tortured before they died. (references) | |
Korea | The regime justifies its dictatorship with arguments derived from concepts of collective consciousness and the superiority of the collective over the individual, appeals to nationalism, and citations of "the juche idea." The authorities emphasize that the core concept of juche is "the ability to act independently without regard to outside interference." Originally described as "a creative application of Marxism-Leninism" in the national context, juche is a malleable philosophy reinterpreted from time to time by the regime as its ideological needs change and is used by the regime as a "spiritual" underpinning for its rule. (references) | |
Political Economy | BAHRAIN | In 2001, the Government of Bahrain began entertaining the idea of allowing the formation of trade unions. (references) |
FINLAND | Finland is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and participates primarily via its membership in the EU. The idea of protection of intellectual property is well developed. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | The Government continued to publicly reject the idea of foreign observers. (references) |
Trade | Luxembourg | The idea was developed by Pro Europe, a joint organization funded by the European collective scheme. (references) |
Switzerland | The Bilaterals must still be ratified by all EU member states, thus entry into force isn't likely until 2001. While Swiss EU membership is the government's stated goal and opinion polls indicate that the population is gradually warming to the idea, any decision to join is likely still a number of years away. (references) | |
Travel | Bolivia | It is a good idea to consult a doctor before visiting. (references) |
Worker Rights | Venezuela | The ILO urged the Government to refrain from displaying favoritism with regard to the FBT and to abandon the idea of imposing trade union unity. (references) |
Australia | These women have been lured either by the idea that they would be waitresses, maids, or dancers or, in some cases, coerced to come by criminal elements operating in their home countries. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andy Rooney | Well, I think the idea of it. I can lump the idea of it. I do not like the idea of a woman on the sideline talking about football. |
Bill Maher | That's right. It's insane the way they are trying to make it un-American, to have a different idea about the way we should handle a common problem. |
Chris Dodd | It's a simple enough question. The American people are going to pay for this. They'd like to have some idea. Don't tell me for a single second that the people at the Pentagon don't have some estimates here. |
Dennis Miller | Even if it is physically possible to have a baby in your sixties, I don't think it's a good idea, whether you're a man or woman. |
Karl Lagerfeld | This is an accident. I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. |
Rush Limbaugh | But if you buy the liberal idea that wanting to keep the money you earn and spending it on meeting your own needs, that's exactly what you're doing! |
Samantha Geimer | There didn't seem to be any reason for her to go. I mean, he was just taking pictures, and nobody had any idea anything like this would ever happen. And I mean, she's never gotten over it. She feels terrible. |
Senator Joseph Biden | So the reason why I disagree with the idea of eliminating Arafat as part of the equation is that's who the Palestinians have chosen. |
William Shatner | I'm consumed, maybe, with the idea of death, the fear and the mystery of it. Much of the work I'm doing now involves the mystery of death, but I'm trying to do it from a comedic point of view. So laughter and grief are two sides of the same coin. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | A correct view of our relations with each power will enable you to form a just idea of existing difficulties, and of the measures of precaution best adapted to them. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Indeed, it is not probable that such an idea ever occurred to the States when they adopted the Constitution. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We know, beyond this, that we are linked to all free peoples not merely by a noble idea but by a simple need. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We've grown used to the idea of space, and perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Giving life to the idea depends on every one of us. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | That's not my idea of how the new economy ought to work. |
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| "Idea" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Idea" is used about 21,680 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21,679 | 415 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21,680 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "idea": a bright idea ♦ a brilliant idea ♦ a vague idea of ♦ Abstract idea ♦ An abstract idea ♦ associate oneself with an idea ♦ bat an idea around ♦ be keen on an idea ♦ be possessed with an idea ♦ bright idea ♦ brillant idea ♦ brilliant idea ♦ brilliantly original idea ♦ central idea ♦ crazy idea ♦ daft idea ♦ dally with the idea of ♦ drop all idea of ♦ enter idea in the head ♦ fantastic idea ♦ fixed idea ♦ float an idea ♦ fog idea of smth. ♦ foggiest idea ♦ from a wrong idea of ♦ fundamental idea ♦ get an idea ♦ get an idea into one's head ♦ get the idea ♦ governing idea ♦ hackneyed idea ♦ hammer an idea into smb.'s head ♦ have no idea ♦ he hasn't the slightest idea ♦ i had no idea ♦ i have no idea ♦ i have not the foggiest idea ♦ i have not the slightest idea ♦ idea afloat ♦ idea man ♦ impose one's idea ♦ lurking idea ♦ main idea ♦ mistaken idea ♦ not a bad idea ♦ not have the remotest idea ♦ not to have the faintest idea ♦ not to have the remotest idea ♦ nurture an idea ♦ original idea ♦ personal idea ♦ preconceived idea ♦ progressive idea ♦ put an idea into smb.'s head ♦ revolt from the idea ♦ root idea ♦ silly idea ♦ splendid idea ♦ that's the idea ♦ the idea of it! ♦ the young idea ♦ wrong idea. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "idea": idea-centred, idea-content, idea-finding, idea-handling, idea-having, idea-hunts, idea-management, idea-meme, Idea-o-graph, idea-packed, idea-promotors, idea-rich, idea-seeking, idea-stimulating, idea-suppression, idea-thinking. | |
Ending with "idea": darling-idea, four-idea, god-idea, one-idea. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
party idea | 2,573 | bachelor party idea | 865 |
gift idea | 2,425 | small business idea | 840 |
wedding idea | 2,384 | screen name idea | 825 |
baby shower idea | 2,149 | birthday gift idea | 746 |
decorating idea | 1,959 | birthday idea | 745 |
idea | 1,936 | graduation gift idea | 657 |
father day gift idea | 1,747 | anniversary gift idea | 657 |
landscaping idea | 1,644 | home business idea | 623 |
birthday party idea | 1,485 | bedroom decorating idea | 585 |
bachelorette party idea | 1,438 | landscape idea | 579 |
fund raising idea | 1,220 | wedding gift idea | 574 |
craft idea | 1,186 | interior design idea | 539 |
scrapbooking idea | 1,029 | anniversary idea | 519 |
romantic idea | 1,013 | wedding reception idea | 494 |
father day idea | 983 | interior decorating idea | 492 |
tattoo idea | 929 | father day craft idea | 481 |
bridal shower idea | 922 | romantic gift idea | 465 |
home decorating idea | 914 | date idea | 464 |
business idea | 904 | graduation party idea | 460 |
scrapbook idea | 892 | vacation idea | 435 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "idea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | opvatting (concept, contention, opinion), idee, benul (notion, realization, sense), begrip (concept, conception, notion, understanding). (various references) | |
Albanian | ide (brainchild, brainstorm, conception, notion, picture, thought). (various references) | |
Arabic | فكرة (conceit, concept, conception, impression, motif, notion, opinion, outline, think, thought, view), فكر (bethink, cerebrate, consider, contemplate, meditate, reason, reflect, speculate on, think, think out, think over, thought), مثل أعلى (ideal), مشروع (design, enacted, enterprise, legislated, licit, plan, project, schema, scheme, undertaking, venture), تصميم (design, designing, drawing, format, intention, layout, mock up, modelling, planning, purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, styling, will), خطة (counsel, course, forecast, line of action, outline, plan, policy, project, schedule, schema, tactic), رأي (consideration, deliverance, feeling, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, persuasion, saw, say, sentiment, theory, think, verdict, view). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | схващане (apprehension, comprehension, conception, cramp, grasp, kink, notion, opinion, outlook, perception, prehension, understanding, uptake, view), разбиране (apprehension, comprehension, conception, feeling, grasp, grip, hold, knowing, opinion, perception, realization, taste, understanding, uptake), хрумване (fancy, flash, impulse, inspiration, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy, whim-wham), впечатление (effect, feeling, impress, impression, ring), мнение (advice, belief, comment, counsel, esteem, estimation, image, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, pronouncement, sentence, sentiment, thinking, thought, thoughts, verdict, view, voice), мисъл (dictum, image, intellection, mind, reflection, thinking, thought), представа (conception, notion, picture, presentation, tablature, view), понятие (concept, conception, intention, name, notion), план (blueprint, conception, dart, diagram, draft, draught, game, layout, map, plan, plat, plot, program, programme, project, proposal, schedule, schema, scheme, set up, skeleton, sketch, view), идея (concept, conception, design, intention, message, notion, suggestion, thought), идеал (dream, ideal, it). (various references) | |
Catalan | idea. (various references) | |
Chinese | 想法 (to think of a way, whatis thinking). (various references) | |
Czech | nápad (brain child, brain wave, conception, device, flash, inspiration, notion, thought), myšlenka (thought). (various references) | |
Danish | idé. (various references) | |
Dutch | idee (conception, notion), denkbeeld, benul (notion, realization, sense), begrip (concept, conception, notion, understanding). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ideo, koncepto (concept), komprenaĵo (conception, notion). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hugtak (concept, notion), hugskot, hugsjón, hugmynd (imagination), áskoðan (concept). (various references) | |
Farsi | فکر (Concept, Mind, Notion, Opinion, Thought), مقصود (Design, Drift, Innuendo, Proposition, Purpose, Sentiment, Significance), معنی (Abstract, Connotation, Definition, Drift, Effect, Implication, Innuendo, Intent, Moral, Purporst, Sense, Significance), نیت (Animus, Effect, Intent, Purpose, Resolution, Sentiment, Tenor, Will), نقشه کار, گمان (Aim, Assumption, Belief, Conjecture, Doubt, Guess, Impression, Opinion, Supposition, Surmise, Thought), تصور (Fancy, If, Image, Notion, Picture, Supposition, Vision), طرزفکر (Mentality), خیال (Design, Dump, Fancy, Fiction, Ghost, Humor, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Intention, Mind, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Thought, Vision, Whim, Wraith), خبر (Advice, Call, Hearsay, Inkling, Manifest, News, Notice, Predicate, Word), انگاره (Sketch, Tenet), اندیشه (Anxiety, Mentality, Notion, Opinion, Plan, Reflection, Solicitude, Thought, Worry), اگاهی (Acquaintance, Advice, Cognizance, Dope, Immediacy, Inkling, Intelligence, Knowledge, Perception). (various references) | |
Finnish | ajatus (meaning, opinion, reflection, reflexion, thought), aate (thought). (various references) | |
French | idée. (various references) | |
German | Idee (concept, conception, fancy, notion, scheme, theory, thought), Vorstellung (association, conceivability, concept, conception, house, illusion, image, imagination, interview, introduction, notion, offering, perception, performance, picture, play, presentation, show, showing, vision), meinung (acceptation, contention, estimation, judgment, meaning, mind, notion, opinion, sentence, sentiment, view), Gedanke (concept, notion, reflection, sentiment, thought), einfall (freak, incidence, incursion, inroad, invasion, notion, onset, thought, touch, vagary), begriff (acquaintance, comprehended, concept, item, knowledge, notion, realization, sense, term, understanded). (various references) | |
Greek | ιδέα (concept, conception, ism, notion, view). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ide. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מושכל (concept), מושג (apperceived, attained, concept, conception, notion, obtained, term), מחשבה (apprehension, conception, device, mind, skill, think, thinking, thought), עשתות (opinion, thought), רעיון (concept, conception, notion, thought). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ötlet (brainchild, conceit, gimmick, slant, wrinkle), gondolat (fantasy, thought). (various references) | |
Icelandic | álit (concept, contention, opinion). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sangkaan (putative, surmise), pikiran (intelligence, mind, thought), pikir, gagasan (brainchild, bubble, concept, thought), anganan (notion), angan (illusion, notion, phantasy). (various references) | |
Italian | idea (brainchild, conceit, inspiration, intention, meaning, mind, notion, picture), nozione (knowledge, notion, term, understanded). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 趣向 (plan), 了見 (decision, design, discretion, forgiveness, inclination, intention, motive, thought, toleration). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かんねん (acceptance, conception, notion, preparedness, resignation, sense), ちゃくそう (conception, fixing, putting on), はつあん (proposal, suggestion), はつい (plan, suggestion), アイデア , アイディア , イデア , イデー , りょうけん (decision, design, discretion, forgiveness, gun dog, hound, hunting dog, inclination, intention, motive, thought, toleration), りねん, こうあん (device, kouan, plan, public safety, public welfare, Zen question for meditation), ちゃくい (caution, conception, one's clothes), いこう (authority, clothes rack, great deed, great effect, hereafter, inclination, influence, intention, lingering odor of giver, on and after, perfume on the clothing, posthumous manuscripts, power, remains, switching over to, thereafter, to relax, to repose, to rest, transposition, works following the deceased), ぞんねん (opinion), さくい (act, artificiality, commission, conception, design, intention, motif), ねん (attention, care, concern, desire, feeling, sense, thought), しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, drink, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound), しゅし (finger, gist, meaning, motive, object, opinion, pit, seed), しゅこう (assent, consent, delivery, distinguished service, food and drink, handicrafts, handing over, main attack, partiality, plan), しゅい (aim, first place, gist, head position, leading position, main meaning, meaning, motive, opinion), そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), そうねん (conception, prime of life, thought), しそう (alveolus, florid expression, instigation, look of death, master poet, municipal funeral, poetical imagination, poetical talent, priestly teacher, principle, shadow of death, thought), おもいつき (plan, suggestion), たくみ (artisan, carpenter, cleverness, means, mechanic, skill, workman), こうそう (conception, confused fighting, dispute, frost, good running, grand, high and dry ground, high priest, hurrying, imperial ancestors, imposing, magnificent, muzzle loading gun, ore bed, plan, plot, public funeral, red algae, resistance, rhodophyceae, sailing, school funeral, sending back or sending later, spice used for cooking, upper, virtuous priest). (various references) | |
Korean | 아이디어 (Ideas). (various references) | |
Malay | ide, pikiran. (various references) | |
Manx | eie (concept, moan, notion, pang, shout). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ide, tanke (thought), oppfatning (concept, contention, opinion), hensikt (intention). (various references) | |
Papiamen | idea, konsepto (concept). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ideaay.( |
