concept

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UK /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/ US /ˈkɑn.sɛpt/

noun 3verb 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

basic, simple

broad, general, overall, wider

The school uses a wider concept of intelligence that includes creativity and emotional skills.

entire, whole

The entire concept of working from home was completely new to our company last year.

central, core, essential, fundamental, important, key | clear, precise

ambiguous, elusive, nebulous, vague

The professor explained that freedom is actually a nebulous concept that means different things to different people.

VERB + CONCEPT

have

Before starting the project, the team needed to have a basic concept of the budget requirements.

grasp, understand

The teacher explained the concept slowly so all the students could understand it.

define, formulate, frame

Scientists had to define the concept of climate change before they could explain it to the public.

introduce | develop

PREP

~ of

Scientists developed the concept of recycling to help protect our environment.

Definitions

noun

An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.

Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorde

The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.

Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense. Frege explicitly recognizes them as functions. Like Peirce's rhema, a concept is unsaturated. They are in some sense incomplete. Although Frege never gets beyond the metaphorical in his description of the incompleteness of concepts and other functions, one thing is clear: the distinction between objects and functions is the main division in his metaphysics. There is something special about functions that makes them very different from objects.

A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

verb

To conceive; to dream up.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specifi

Antonyms

misconception

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.

Wiktionary

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history

Wiktionary

To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he always had enough to eat.

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The concept is quite alien to our way of thinking.

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The concept of zero sprang from the Hindu culture.

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