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What (who) is IDEA - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
IDEA
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Internet Design, Engineering, and Analysis notes (Reference: IETF)
idea
(ideas)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
An idea is a plan, suggestion, or possible course of action.
It's a good idea to plan ahead...
I really like the idea of helping people...
She told me she'd had a brilliant idea.
N-COUNT: oft adj N, N to-inf, N of n/-ing
2.
An idea is an opinion or belief about what something is like or should be like.
Some of his ideas about democracy are entirely his own.
...the idea that reading too many books ruins your eyes...
= notion
N-COUNT: usu N about/on/of n, N that
3.
If someone gives you an idea of something, they give you information about it without being very exact or giving a lot of detail.
This table will give you some idea of how levels of ability can be measured...
If you cannot remember the exact date give a rough idea of when it was.
N-SING: N of n/wh
4.
If you have an idea of something, you know about it to some extent.
No one has any real idea how much the company will make next year.
N-SING: with supp
5.
If you have an idea that something is the case, you think that it may be the case, although you are not certain.
I had an idea that he joined the army later, but I may be wrong.
N-SING: N that [vagueness]
6.
The idea of an action or activity is its aim or purpose.
The idea is to encourage people to get to know their neighbours.
= objective
N-SING: the N
7.
If you have the idea of doing something, you intend to do it.
He sent for a number of books he admired with the idea of re-reading them...
= intention
N-COUNT: N of -ing/n
8.
You can use idea in expressions such as I've no idea or I haven't the faintest idea to emphasize that you do not know something.
'Is she coming by coach?'-'Well I've no idea.'
= notion
N-SING: with brd-neg [emphasis]
9.
If someone gets the idea, they understand how to do something or they understand what you are telling them. (INFORMAL)
It isn't too difficult once you get the idea...
PHRASE: V inflects
idea
n.
1) to get, hit upon an idea
2) to develop; entertain, toy with an idea
3) to communicate, disseminate ideas; to market, package an idea
4) to implement an idea
5) to endorse, favor an idea
6) to dismiss, reject an idea
7) a bright, brilliant, clever, ingenious; logical idea
8) an absurd, crazy, fantastic, far-fetched; desperate; silly, stupid; strange idea
9) a fresh, new, novel idea
10) a daring; grandiose idea
11) an old, outmoded, stale, warmed-over idea
12) an approximate, rough; clear; fixed; general; main; vague idea
13) the faintest, slightest idea (she didn't have the faintest idea of what I meant)
14) the idea that + clause (I had no idea that she would attend the meeting)
15) (misc.) he didn't get the idea ('he did not understand')
Wikipedia
Idea (disambiguation)
An idea is an image existing or formed in the mind.
Idea or IDEA or similar may also refer to:
Examples of use of IDEA
1. It‘s a big idea that... (APPLAUSE) It‘s a big idea, but it‘s an old idea.
2. They have no idea, and what is worse, they have no idea that they have no idea.
3. It is the idea of national independence against foreign forces, the idea of great national unity and the idea for peace both in name and reality.
4. It wont have been Mr Clarkes idea to put people in prison for praising an idea.
5. Reluctantly abandoning the idea that this is Tesco‘s idea of a metajoke, I ring the helpline.