单词 | concept |
释义 | conceptn. I. Senses relating to thought or understanding. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] thoughtOE thingOE conceita1393 imagea1393 concept1479 conception1526 suppositiona1529 idee1542 idea1585 conceivement1599 project1600 representationa1602 notion1607 phantasma1620 conceptus1643 species1644 notice1654 revolution1675 representamen1677 vorstellung1807 brain-stuff1855 ideation1876 think1886 artefact1923 construct1933 mind1966 1479 Earl Rivers in tr. Cordyal (Caxton) Pref. Ony mocion to blotte or ruste the clernesse of our goostly vndrestanding stirring vs to vnmesurable feer, or ony other presumptueux sinistre, or vayne concept. 1547 J. Hooper Declar. Christe viii. sig. Hvi He that makith a house first conceuithe a trew form in his imaginacion and yet the imaginacion nor concept of the mind is not materiali the house. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cxix. 355 Thy precepts..I mel: with them in my concepts. 1643 J. M. Reply to Answer 42 I beleive this concept was as soone penned, as it was thought on. 1680 S. Bethel Interest Princes & States Europe 223 All such Magistrates as have any new concepts to propound for the bringing them into Laws, have a right of Session without Votes. 1880 R. Browning Dramatic Idyls 2nd Ser. 74 A thought has fired you, Made you fain to give some cramped concept expansion. 1889 A. Austin Love's Widowhood 60 When my pinions did no more suffice For that their double load, then..with diminished music must decline To earthy sounds and concepts. 2. Originally in Philosophy: a general idea or notion, a universal; a mental representation of the essential or typical properties of something, considered without regard to the peculiar properties of any specific instance or example. Later often (frequently with of): the meaning that is realized by a word or expression. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > concept conception1526 concept1561 conceit1576 representationa1602 notion1607 dicible1656 pseudo-concept1866 cogitatum1878 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [noun] > universal universalc1475 concept1561 universalia1606 concrete universal1865 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [noun] > logical concept > general concept notiona1398 generalty1442 intention?1545 concept1561 conceit1576 conceptus1643 conception1701 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Xx.ii Meddlinge all beawties together, he shall make an vniuersall concept [It. farà un concetto universale], and bringe the multitude of them to the vnitye of one alone. 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova I. ii. iv. 22 The Quiddity of a Being in general goeth more by the name of the Concept of a Being. 1707 J. Dunton Athenian Sport cvii. 469/2 These several Concepts are several Actions, because they are of several Objects; which difference of Action is call'd a material Difference. 1836 W. Hamilton Lect. Logic viii The Internal Quantity of a notion,—its Intension or Comprehension, is made up of..the various characters connected by the concept itself into a single whole in thought. 1854 P. E. Dove Elem. Polit. Sci. 381 If a man happen to be born without the concept of equity, he is not a moral being. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic 11 A Percept or Intuition is a single representation..a Concept is a collective (general or universal) representation of a whole class of things. 1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic i. i. 36 Concepts like ‘triangle’, ‘animal’, or ‘motion’. 1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic iv. 68 Concepts express the nature of things; and therefore in defining concepts, we may define things, so far as they are of a kind, but not as individuals. 1929 C. E. Martin Politics of Peace i. 3 In modern politics..no concept is more significant than constitutionalism. 1961 Times of India 10 May 7 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, India's Vice-President, said here tonight that the concept of humanity was greater than that of nationalism. 1988 M. Weitz Theories of Concepts xiv. 251 Concepts..are mental capacities, skills, or abilities, the best manifestation of which is in the use of language to make judgements. 2007 R. Pasnau in H. Lagerlund et al. Representation & Objects Thought Medieval Philos. iii. 41 The concept of curved..can be abstracted..from even a generalized conception of sensible matter. 3. An idea underlying or governing the design or content of a product, work of art, entertainment, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] > of something > in popular taste concept1891 brand-image1958 society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > class of branded goods > matching or designed by theme concept1979 1891 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1889–90 i. 611 The Kunstgewerbe Museum contains much that is like the ethnographic collection, but the reigning concept is technographic. 1905 C. Moran Business of Advertising iii. 51 The concept or idea is produced either by the advertiser, the printer, or the artist he employs. 1947 Billboard 22 Nov. 16/4 The concept behind the show is a fresh one which should provide interesting and relaxing diversion for home viewers. 1979 D. Halberstam Powers that Be (1980) ii. 47 He was the man who invented the concept of a weekly news magazine. 1988 Pop. Mech. Sept. 59 Earl came up with a concept for a sporty 2-seater that would..sell for about $1850. 2011 Eastern Eye 24 June 26/1 The rest of the songs..are quirky and very much designed to go with the daring concept of the film. II. Senses relating to imagination, opinion, or disposition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] sightc1175 thoughtc1175 imagination1340 thinking1340 conceptiona1387 imaginativea1398 phantasm1490 concept1536 fetch1549 conceit1556 conceiving1559 fancy1581 notion1647 fantastic1764 ideality1815 ideoplasty1884 phantastikon1917 1536 J. Gwynneth Confut. Fyrst Parte Frythes Boke xvii. sig. g.ii The powre and concept of our myndes, doth (as I haue largely declared) very gretely fayle, and is farre of. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiii. 20) We forge fantasticall toyes in our own concepts. 1623 M. Pattenson Image Bothe Churches iii. 455 It was not thought as a dreame, or a concept, that Luther had conferenc with deuels. a1654 A. Ross Πανσεβεια (1655) xii. 400 How shall we know the inward call of the Spirit, from the flattering concept of our Fancies? 1891 W. Whitman Good-bye my Fancy 8 Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul, That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities. 5. Personal opinion, judgement, or estimation; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > personal opinion > [noun] thinkinga1382 counsela1400 conceitc1405 private judgement1565 concept1566 self-conceit1596 lights1598 private1599 self-conception1648 phenomenon1677 two cents' worth1942 1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste i. xxxiii. f. 81v Although other haue vttered their conceptes and coniecturs vpon this prophecie. 1591 in Camden Misc. (1847) I. 37 Bigger (in my concepte) than all Westminster. 1602 A. Hume Diduction True & Catholik Meaning 97 There was nyntene yeare betweene his bookes, and therefore in nyntene yeares hee might well change his concept of Paull. 1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 760/1 We have arrived at the concept that design exists in the world about us as it is displayed in our own handiwork and the work of animals. 1936 B. C. Williams George Eliot v. 44 Gladstone defended Butler, though he recognized Sara's fairness in her concept that revelation is a matter of experience. 2000 Diva May 4/2 They are all locked in the concept that sexuality is rigid and that a person is either gay or straight. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] heartOE erda1000 moodOE i-mindOE i-cundeOE costc1175 lundc1175 evena1200 kinda1225 custc1275 couragec1300 the manner ofc1300 qualityc1300 talentc1330 attemperancec1374 complexionc1386 dispositiona1387 propertyc1390 naturea1393 assay1393 inclinationa1398 gentlenessa1400 proprietya1400 habitudec1400 makingc1400 conditionc1405 habitc1405 conceitc1425 affecta1460 ingeny1477 engine1488 stomach?1510 mind?a1513 ingine1533 affection1534 vein1536 humour?1563 natural1564 facultyc1565 concept1566 frame1567 temperature1583 geniusa1586 bent1587 constitution1589 composition1597 character1600 tune1600 qualification1602 infusion1604 spirits1604 dispose1609 selfness1611 disposure1613 composurea1616 racea1616 tempera1616 crasisc1616 directiona1639 grain1641 turn1647 complexure1648 genie1653 make1674 personality1710 tonea1751 bearing1795 liver1800 make-up1821 temperament1821 naturalness1850 selfhood1854 Wesen1854 naturel1856 sit1857 fibre1864 character structure1873 mentality1895 mindset1909 psyche1910 where it's (he's, she's) at1967 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. vi. f. 20 Beyng in this louing concept, he extolled the praise of his wife, to one of his guarde. 7. A draft or rough copy of a letter, official document, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > preliminary or rough copy draught1528 rough draft1576 foul papers1601 rough copy1638 essay1656 concept1658 draft1769 upset1841 1658 P. Meadows Let. in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) VI. 838 The concept of the articles on this syde is in Danish, on the other in Swedish. 1689 P. Meadows Obs. Dominion & Sovereignty Seas iii. 17 In the Project or Concept of 27 Articles..in the 15th Article it was thus proposed [etc.]. 1881 M. M. Heaton Hist. Life A. Dürer (ed. 2) i. iii. 60 This letter..the original concept for it is still preserved. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective (in sense 2). ΚΠ 1865 S. H. Hodgson Time & Space vii. 347 Non-existence in this sense, or pure nothing, is a concept-name and not a concept. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xvi. 662 They form for him not so many odd facts, but a concept-system—so they stick. 1894 J. E. Creighton & E. B. Titchener tr. W. M. Wundt Lect. Human & Animal Psychol. xxi. 310 They serve to invest the concept-idea with the consciousness of its vicarious significance, and with the resultant concept-feeling. 1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 208/1 The concept triangle comprehends an indefinite multiplicity of actual or possible triangles. 1938 Mod. Lang. Rev. 33 555 This concept-chasing is a consequence of the more or less arbitrary ‘periodization’ of literary history. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax i. 32 The innate concept-forming abilities of the child. 2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Dec. 26/1 (advt.) Tschumi introduces the ‘concept-form’: a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept. C2. Designating a car or other vehicle produced as an experimental model to test the viability of new design features, esp. in concept car. ΚΠ 1966 Nation's Business May 81/3 Detroit is continually working on futuristic ‘concept’ cars that include safety as well as styling innovations. 1989 Motor Trend Mar. 115 Pontiac also hopes to learn something from its latest concept car. 2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Jan. d8/3 GM rolled out a sleek Cadillac..concept coupe, a prototype powered by an ‘extended range’ electric-drive system. C3. With reference to a store, restaurant, etc., characterized by a unique (design) theme, idea, or commercial strategy. ΚΠ 1975 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 9 May d2/4 (advt.) Experienced cocktail waitress needed for an elegant concept restaurant. 1979 S. Brett Comedian Dies iii. 32 Great Expectations..was a concept restaurant, themed wittily around the works of Dickens. 1995 Face Aug. 59/1 The other key factor in this genesis of the concept store was the success of the so-called frontier look—that is, the sub-Timberland boot look. 2014 Advertising Age (Nexis) 27 Oct. 32 A building under construction that people familiar with the matter say will house an even more upscale ‘downtown’ Walmart concept store with high-end foodservice and organic fare. C4. concept album n. a (rock) album featuring songs which express a unified theme or idea. ΚΠ 1968 N.Y. Times 2 June 20/1 It is more than coincidence that such recent releases..fit squarely into the mainstream of the new ‘concept album’ genre. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Feb. 39 They have attempted to create a kind of concept album about the pitfalls of post-puberty. 2004 S. Hunter Hell Bent for Leather (2005) vi. 86 I bought Venom's third record, their concept album about the man downstairs, At War with Satan. concept keyboard n. Computing a type of keyboard on which each key can be programmed separately to correspond to a particular function or item (such as text or an image). ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard keyboard1958 concept keyboard1983 1983 Communication Outlook May 9/1 One such device is the concept keyboard, a device similar to the Walsall primary keyboard, but containing 32 areas that can be divided in many different ways to give larger or smaller keys. 2002 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 13 Sept. 38 Valli employed the Concept Keyboard which allowed pupils to write on the computer, producing a word or a sentence at the touch of a single key. 2014 M. J. Cox in M. Leask & N. Pachler Learning to teach using ICT in Secondary School (ed. 3) ii. 34 Now the most widespread use of concept keyboards is in restaurants, bank ATMs, airports, supermarkets and for many other commercial purposes. concept map n. a chart representing relationships between concepts, typically in the form of a branching hierarchical structure connected by lines or arrows. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > diagram > other types of diagram map1797 base map1862 polar diagram1879 Gantt chart1918 pie diagram1921 pie chart1922 pie graph1930 histomap1931 process sheet1935 rose diagram1938 process chart1939 stereodiagram1945 wall chart1958 network1959 concept map1967 polar1975 mind map1987 1967 Systematics 5 251 The first session was devoted to setting up a concept map. 1998 Educ. Rev. 12 i. 86/1 Science Connections 1..[contains] ‘concept maps’ for the chemistry, physics and biology components in the material. 2007 Junior Educ. June 18 ‘Concept maps’ are basic imitations of the brain's storage structure. concept mapping n. the process of depicting or describing the relationships between various concepts, in later use esp. by means of a concept map. ΚΠ 1951 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 16 215 The concept-mapping scheme noted..permits us to define definition as ‘the classifying of concepts, ordered and systematized according to proximum genus and specific difference’. 1979 Amer. Biol. Teacher 41 470/1 Concept mapping used in conjunction with Gowin's V will enable students to see the complex way biologists work to make new knowledge. 2006 Financial Times 12 Apr. (Special Rep. section) 6/8 Concept mapping is best at understanding large, complex topics with lots of concepts that may not fit together in a hierarchical way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). conceptv. rare after 17th cent. transitive. To conceive (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > conception > conceive [verb (transitive)] onfangOE underfoa1100 afanglOE understandc1200 underfonga1300 conceptionc1350 conceivea1400 concept1603 1603 T. Ferrers Let. 25 Mar. in Catal. Select. Stowe MSS (1883) 38 The Lord Keaper, with the rest..came all to Whitt Hawlle, having at Richmond..concepted and sett downe by generall agryment this proclemation herwith sent. 1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie vi. 41 The soule..is concepted by the woman through the concurrance of the seed of both sexes. 1864 R. Deuchar Brief Rev. Anc. & Mod. Philos. 198 The mind of Phidias first concepted beauty in ideal perfection,—and hence his perfect Venus. 1919 W. De Morgan Old Madhouse vii. 75 [The] reader may concept—and that's a very good word, whatever he may say to the contrary,—what a slight impression was produced by the first hearing of Dr. Carteret's disappearance. 2011 M. Johnson Here come Girls xxxviii. 216 I was concepted in Venice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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