Idea: alternatives and connections

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.

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The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

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Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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of Figure

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Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

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A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

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Flax; linen.

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A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

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That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines t…

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That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…

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of Reckon

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A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition pro…

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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of Think

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A sound; a note; a tone.

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The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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That which is borne or carried; a load.

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The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.

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An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

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The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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of Feel

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An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

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The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.

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The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from part…

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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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of Guess

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Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

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Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

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The act or process of idealizing.

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The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the ches…

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The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the p…

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A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.

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of Mean

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Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.

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Motive.

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That which moves; a mover.

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Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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To estimate too highly; to overvalue.

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of Overrate

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A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

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Same as Programme.

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That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order…

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Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

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of Shoot

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The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

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A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule.

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To set to/ low a value on; to estimate below the truth.

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The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation…

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The European widgeon.

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Alt. of Whimsy

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A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.

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Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

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Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

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The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

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The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

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The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.

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Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.

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The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating.

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To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

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The act of estimating.

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The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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of Think

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An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

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Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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of Think

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That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals…

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A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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