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单词 concept
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conceptn.

Brit. /ˈkɒnsɛpt/, U.S. /ˈkɑnˌsɛpt/
Forms: late Middle English– concept, 1500s–1600s concepte.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: Latin conceptum ; conceit n.
Etymology: Partly (i) < classical Latin conceptum that which is conceived, fetus, that which is conceived in the mind, idea, use as noun of neuter of past participle of concipere conceive v., and partly (ii) an alteration of conceit n. (compare especially the α. forms at that entry) after classical Latin concept-, past participial stem of concipere conceive v. Compare Middle French, French concept (1404, earliest in sense ‘idea, mental image’; the specific use in philosophy is not paralleled until 1647), Catalan concepte (14th cent.), Spanish concepto (early 15th cent.), and also Italian concetto (see conceit n.), Portuguese conceito (1523; also 1537 as †concepto). Compare also Dutch concept (1504, earliest in senses ‘plan, design’ and ‘draft’), German †Concept (now Konzept; c1500 in sense ‘design, plan’), early modern Danish concept (Danish koncept), Swedish koncept (1527 as †concept, earliest in sense ‘draft’).In sense 2 originally after Italian concetto conceit n. In sense 7 probably after German †Concept (now Konzept) draft, rough copy (16th cent.). With this sense, compare French †concet draft (1619; rare). The following glosses from dictionaries appear to be based on mistaken French glosses in G. Miège Great French Dictionary (1688) and in A. Boyer Royal Dictionary (1699):1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Concept, a set Form; a term used in Publick Acts.1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Concept, a set Form, or Term used in publick Acts.
I. Senses relating to thought or understanding.
1. Something conceived in the mind; a notion, idea, image, or thought. Obsolete except as in senses 2 and 3.
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.
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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.
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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.
4. A person's capacity or faculty for imagining things; imagination. Also: a fancied or imagined thing; a conceit. Obsolete.
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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.
6. Disposition, frame of mind. Obsolete. rare.
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.
III. Other senses.
7. A draft or rough copy of a letter, official document, etc. Obsolete.
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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.
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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 18Concept 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.

Brit. /kənˈsɛpt/, U.S. /kənˈsɛpt/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Latin conceptare ; concept n.
Etymology: Partly (i) < post-classical Latin conceptare to conceive in the womb (4th cent.; frequentative formation < classical Latin concipere conceive v.), and partly (ii) < concept n. Compare earlier concepted adj., conceit v.
rare after 17th cent.
transitive. To conceive (in various senses).
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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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