different between concept vs perce

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipi? (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit. See conceive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?pt/

Noun

concept (plural concepts)

1. An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
2. 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, recorded manifestations of the concept).
   • 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.
3. (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

Synonyms

• conception
• notion
• abstraction

Hyponyms

• conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality
• notion
• scheme
• rule, regulation
• property, attribute, dimension
• abstraction, abstract
• quantity
• part, section, division
• whole
• law, natural law, law of nature
• hypothesis
• possibility
• theory
• fact
• rule

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Verb

concept (third-person singular simple present concepts, present participle concepting, simple past and past participle concepted)

1. to conceive; to dream up

Further reading

• concept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• concept in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• concept on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Concept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?pt/
• Hyphenation: con?cept

Noun

concept n (plural concepten, diminutive conceptje n)

1. concept
2. draft, sketch

Derived terms

• conceptversie

Descendants

• Afrikaans: konsep
• ? Indonesian: konsep

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conceptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt
• Homophone: concepts

Noun

concept m (plural concepts)

1. concept

Synonyms

• connaissance
• idée
• notion

Related terms

• concepteur
• conception
• conceptualiser
• conceptualisation
• conceptuel
• conceptuellement
• concevoir

Further reading

• “concept” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French concept, Latin conceptus.

Noun

concept n (plural concepte)

1. concept

Declension

Related terms

• concepe
• concepere
• conceptibil
• conceptibilitate
• conceptism
• conceptual
• conceptualism
• conceptualist
• conceptualiza
• conceptualizat
• conceptualizare
• concep?ie
• concep?ional

English

Verb

perce (third-person singular simple present perces, present participle percing, simple past and past participle perced)

1. Obsolete form of pierce.

Anagrams

• CREEP, creep, crepe, crêpe

French

Verb

perce

1. first-person singular present indicative of percer
2. third-person singular present indicative of percer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of percer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of percer
5. second-person singular imperative of percer

Anagrams

• crêpe

Hungarian

Etymology

perc +? -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?rt?s?]
• Hyphenation: per?ce

Noun

perce

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of perc

   Coordinate terms: ideje, másodperce, órája, napja, hete, hónapja, éve, évtizede, évszázada, évezrede

Usage notes

The above possessive forms of time units often express the time past: with a durative verb (often in the present-tense), an action or event that has (had, will have) been going on for a given time until the given moment, or with an instantaneous verb (in the past tense), an action or event that happened a certain time ago or before. For example:

Of course, the usual possessive sense is also possible in different types of sentences:

(The equivalent French phrase il y a is also constructed with an apparent possessive, although this Hungarian possessive can also correspond to depuis.) See also the entries of the possessive suffixes: -a/-e/-ja/-je for more examples.

Declension

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French percier. More at English pierce.

Verb

perce (third-person singular simple present perceth, present participle percynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle perced)

1. pierce
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 1-2.

     Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote

     The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

Descendants

• English: pierce