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Idea

In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are abstract concepts. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object.

Subscribe

Arrange to receive something, typically a publication, regularly by paying in advance
Subscribe to the magazine for twelve months and receive a free limited-edition T-shirt

Idea

A thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action
Recently, the idea of linking pay to performance has caught on
It's a good idea to do some research before you go

Subscribe

Express or feel agreement with (an idea or proposal)
We prefer to subscribe to an alternative explanation

Idea

The aim or purpose
I took a job with the idea of getting some money together
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Subscribe

Sign (a will, contract, or other document)
He subscribed the will as a witness

Idea

(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.

Subscribe

To pledge or contribute (a sum of money).

Idea

Something, such as a thought or conception, that is the product of mental activity.

Subscribe

To sign (one's name) at the end of a document, especially to attest to or authenticate it.

Idea

An opinion, conviction, or principle
Has some strange political ideas.

Subscribe

To sign one's name to (a document) in attestation, testimony, or consent
Subscribe a will.

Idea

A plan, purpose, or goal
She started school with the idea of becoming a doctor.

Subscribe

To purchase or claim the shares of (a new issue of stock, bonds, or other securities)
A bond offering that is fully subscribed.

Idea

The gist or significance
The idea of the article is that investing in green technology can save you money in the long run.

Subscribe

To contract to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication, for access to a website that is protected by a paywall, for tickets to a series of events or performances, or for a utility service, for example.

Idea

A sense that something can happen; a notion or expectation
They have this idea that we can just drop what we're doing and go to the park.

Subscribe

To agree to an ongoing arrangement by which one receives online content, as from a specific website or a specific user on a website.

Idea

(Music) A theme or motif.

Subscribe

To promise to pay or contribute money
Subscribe to a charity.

Idea

In the philosophy of Plato, a non-physical form or archetype to which beings in phenomenal reality correspond only as imperfect replicas.

Subscribe

To purchase or claim shares of a new issue of stock, bonds, or other securities
An investor who subscribed for 100 shares.

Idea

In the philosophy of Kant, a concept of reason that is transcendent but nonempirical.

Subscribe

To feel or express hearty approval
I subscribe to your opinion.

Idea

In the philosophy of Hegel, absolute truth; the complete and ultimate product of reason.

Subscribe

To sign one's name to a document.

Idea

(Obsolete) A mental image of something remembered.

Subscribe

(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?

Idea

(philosophy) 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.

Subscribe

To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.

Idea

(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.

Subscribe

To believe or agree with a theory or an idea to}}.
I don’t subscribe to that theory.

Idea

(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.

Subscribe

To pay money to be a member of an organization.

Idea

An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.

Subscribe

(intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.

Idea

More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.

Subscribe

(transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
Each man subscribed ten dollars.

Idea

A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
I have an idea of how we might escape.

Subscribe

To agree to buy shares in a company.

Idea

A purposeful aim or goal; intent
Yeah, that's the idea.

Subscribe

(transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
Officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.

Idea

A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.

Subscribe

(archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

Idea

(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.

Subscribe

(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

Idea

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
Being the right idea of your fatherBoth in your form and nobleness of mind.
This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea.

Subscribe

(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.

Idea

A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.

Subscribe

To declare over one's signature; to publish.

Idea

Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call idea.

Subscribe

(intransitive) To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.
Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Idea

A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
What is now "idea" for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, -"how it showed . . . Answering his great idea," -to its present use, when this person "has an idea that the train has started," and the other "had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!"

Subscribe

To register for notifications about an event or similar.
If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.

Idea

A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an idea of undertaking while there the translation of the work.

Subscribe

To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
[They] subscribed their names under them.

Idea

A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

Subscribe

To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

Idea

A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
Thence to behold this new-created world,The addition of his empire, how it showedIn prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,Answering his great idea.

Subscribe

To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.

Idea

The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;
It was not a good idea
The thought never entered my mind

Subscribe

To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.

Idea

A personal view;
He has an idea that we don't like him

Subscribe

To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

Idea

An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;
An estimate of what it would cost
A rough idea how long it would take

Subscribe

To declare over one's signature; to publish.
Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward.

Idea

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

Subscribe

To sign one's name to a letter or other document.

Idea

(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;
The theme is announced in the first measures
The accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it

Subscribe

To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
So spake, so wished, much humbled Eve; but FateSubscribed not.

Subscribe

To become surely; - with for.

Subscribe

To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
I will subscribe, and say I wronged the duke.

Subscribe

To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.

Subscribe

To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.

Subscribe

Offer to buy, as of stocks and shares;
The broker subscribed 500 shares

Subscribe

Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on);
She signed the letter and sent it off
Please sign here

Subscribe

Adopt as a belief;
I subscribe to your view on abortion

Subscribe

Pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals;
I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station

Subscribe

Receive or obtain by regular payment;
We take the Times every day

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