different between idea vs snow

English

Etymology

From Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”). Cognate with French idée. Doublet of idée.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /a??d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /a??di.?/
• (US, intrusive r) IPA^(key): /a??d??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?e?di??/
• Rhymes: -??, -i??
• Hyphenation: i?dea, i?de?a

Noun

idea (plural ideas or (rare) ideæ)

1. (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. [from 14th c.]
2. (obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal. [16th-19th c.]
3. (obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic. [16th-18th c.]
4. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory. [from 16th c.]

5. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking. [from 17th c.]
   • 1952, Alfred Whitney Griswold

     Ideas won't go to jail.

6. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention. [from 17th c.]

7. A purposeful aim or goal; intent
8. A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression. [from 17th c.]

9. (music) A musical theme or melodic subject. [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (mental transcript, image, or picture): image

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (aidia), ???? (aidea)

Translations

Further reading

• idea in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• idea in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Adie, aide, daie

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).

Noun

idea f (plural idees)

1. idea

Related terms

• ideal

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /i?d?.?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i?d?.a/

Noun

idea f (plural idees)

1. idea (clarification of this definition is needed)

Related terms

• ideal
• idear

Further reading

• “idea” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “idea” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “idea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “idea” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa), from ???? (eíd?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a/

Noun

idea f

1. idea (that which exists in the mind as the result of mental activity)

Related terms

• ideace
• idealizace
• idealizovaný
• idealizovat
• ideolog
• ideologický
• ideologie
• ideový
• ideál
• idealista
• idealismus
• ideozlo?in

Further reading

• idea in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• idea in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”).

Noun

idea

1. idea

Declension

Synonyms

• ajatus

Galician

Etymology

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).

Noun

idea f (plural ideas)

1. idea

Related terms

• ideal

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?id??]
• Hyphenation: idea
• Rhymes: -?

Noun

idea (plural ideák)

1. idea

Declension

References

Interlingua

Noun

idea (plural ideas)

1. idea

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).

Noun

idea f (plural idee)

1. idea

Related terms

• ideale
• ideare
• ideazione
• ideo-

Etymology 2

Verb

idea

1. third-person singular present of ideare
2. second-person singular imperative of ideare

Anagrams

• aedi

Further reading

• idea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i.de.a/, [??d?eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.de.a/, [?i?d???]

Noun

idea f (genitive ideae); first declension

1. idea
   • 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker:

     Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis

     An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas

2. prototype (Platonic)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• idea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• idea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Malay

Etymology

From English idea, from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).

Noun

idea (plural idea-idea, informal 1st possessive ideaku, impolite 2nd possessive ideamu, 3rd possessive ideanya)

1. idea.

Alternative forms

• ide (Indonesia, Timor-Leste)

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian idea, from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d??.a/, /??d??.ja/
• Homophone: idejha (one pronunciation)

Noun

idea f (plural ideat)

1. idea

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

idea

1. idea

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Polish

Etymology

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa), from ???? (eíd?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?d?.a/

Noun

idea f (diminutive idejka)

1. idea (image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory)

   Synonym: pomys?

2. (philosophy) idea (abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect)
3. keynote, mission statement

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) ideowy

Related terms

• (nouns) ideowiec, ideowo??
• (adverb) ideowo

Further reading

• idea in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• idea in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian ideare.

Verb

a idea (third-person singular present ideeaz?, past participle ideat) 1st conj.

1. to invent, to conceive

Conjugation

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?id?a/

Noun

idea f (genitive singular idey, nominative plural idey, genitive plural ideí, declension pattern of idea)

1. idea (that which exists in the mind as the result of mental activity)

Declension

Related terms

• ideológ m
• ideologický m
• ideológia f
• ideový m
• ideál m
• idealista m
• idealistický m
• idealizácia f
• idealizmus m

Further reading

• idea in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?dea/, [i?ð?e.a]

Etymology 1

From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “to see”). Compare Portuguese ideia.

Noun

idea f (plural ideas)

1. idea

Derived terms

Related terms

• ideal
• idear

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

idea

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of idear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of idear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of idear.

Further reading

• “idea” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English sn?w (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóyg??os (“snow”), from the root *sneyg??-.

Cognate with Scots snaw (“snow”), West Frisian snie (“snow”), Dutch sneeuw (“snow”), German Schnee (“snow”), Danish sne (“snow”), Norwegian snø (“snow”), Swedish snö (“snow”), Icelandic snjór (“snow”), Latin nix (“snow”), Russian ???? (sneg), Ancient Greek ???? (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”), Sanskrit ????? (snéha, “oil, grease”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sn?, IPA^(key): /sn??/, [sn???]
• (US) enPR: sn?, IPA^(key): /sno?/, [sno??]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)

1. (uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
   • 1928, A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner,

     The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest.

2. (uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
   • 2008, Neal Asher, "Alien Archaeology"

     Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow ...

3. (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.

   We have had several heavy snows this year.

4. (uncountable) A shade of the color white.

5. (uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.

   Synonym: shash

6. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
   • 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

     Besides, if it wasn't poison, it might be 'snow' or something.

Synonyms

• (cocaine): blow

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

snow (third-person singular simple present snows, present participle snowing, simple past and past participle snowed)

1. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.

   It is snowing.

   It started to snow.

2. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
3. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.

Usage notes

• In older texts and still in dialects, the past tense snew and past participle snown may be encountered.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

• Brunson, Doyle (1978) Super/System: A course in power poker, B&G Publishing Company

Etymology 2

From Low German Snaue, or Dutch snaauw, from Low German Snau (“a snout, a beak”). See snout.

Noun

snow (plural snows)

1. (nautical) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

Anagrams

• nows, owns, sow'n, sown, wons

Middle English

Alternative forms

• snaw, snowe, snawe, snow?, sno?, snogh, snou

Etymology

From Old English sn?w, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /sn?u?/
• IPA^(key): /sn?u?/

Noun

snow (plural snowes)

1. snow (frozen water as precipitation, either while falling or once landed)
2. snow-white (a snowy white)
3. The temperature where snow appears.
4. A blanket of snow; a snowing.

Derived terms

• snewen
• snow whit
• snowen
• snowisshe
• snowy

Descendants

• English: snow
• Scots: snaw
• Yola: sneow, sneew, snowe

References

• “snou, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?no/, [ez?no]

• IPA^(key): /es?nou/, [ez?nou?]

Noun

snow m (uncountable)

1. snowboarding

Derived terms