idea Englisch:

primitive notion

Let's dispense with this confused notion right now

In his essay "Esperanto: European or Asiatic language" Claude Piron has shown the similarities between Esperanto and Chinese, thereby putting to rest the notion that Esperanto is purely eurocentric.

In the same way as Hegel, Panovsky's notion of the dialectic makes history follow a predetermined course.

In this paper I would like to examine the notion of "dyad style" and its influence on fine arts.

Last studies contradict this notion

The findings may mean having to cast aside many traditional notions when it comes to money and financial choices.

Who put the notion into his head that he could sing? Now we'll have to listen to him.

I don`t understand this notion.

The show's ​director ​rejects the notion that ​seeing ​violence on ​television has a ​harmful ​effect on ​children.

So I think it's in everyone's interests to try and broaden out the concept of philanthropy into a wider notion of giving, making a contribution, making a difference.

And that's what Professor Cunningham means when he says we should broaden out the notion – or idea – of philanthropy.

The definition of a notion is an idea, belief or vague knowledge of something. An example of a notion is when you have an idea of what acceptable behavior is.

Paying mothers a sałaty to rise their children is an Interesting notion.

The concept „Sic degrees of separation“ goes back to a 1929 book of short stories.

This concept is difficult to understand.

For him, hunger was an abstract concept. He had always had enough food.

I was picturing a completely different concept, but I like where you're going with this.

They implemented a communication policy so as to promote their new concept.

We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one."

Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.

I would like to put special emphasis on the concept that social ecology is the second school of contemporary environmentalism.

Existence is a meaningless concept.

Sustainable development is the concept of the current generation utilizing the environment and meet human demands while not harming the ability of future generations to satisfy their own demands and interests.

I would like to focus attention on the particular design that best represents Emmet's concept.

"So that's the concept here for how we think this life extension ability exists. "

Understanding motion will not only provide answers to these questions, but will be key to understanding more advanced concepts in physics.

The first person to give the concept of a “just war” a thorough examination was St Thomas Aquinas.

A good method plays a much more important role in language learning than the vague concept of innate ability.

What's going on in the cave? I'm curious. "I have no idea."

That's my idea.

He's given to going overboard every time he gets a new idea.

Math is like love - a simple idea, but it can get complicated.

His idea doesn't make any sense at all.

For people who dislike the idea of giving money, a gift certificate is a good idea.

I had been thinking about our new project for two weeks, but I couldn't come up with a good idea.

The development of a new business idea is no doubt the ideal that everybody wishes for.

Taking all things into consideration, I have made up my mind to give up the idea.

Never work on electrical wiring without unplugging it; it's a bad idea. I know from experience.

Our opinion is an idea which we have; our conviction an idea which has us.

Having a few extra batteries handy is never a bad idea.

Is there any difference between your idea and hers?

He's a really straight-laced guy, so he doesn't like the idea of his son changing jobs.

We'd better brainstorm about it together and get a better idea.

My aim is to learn enough English so I don't need to carry a dictionary with me when I travel.

Even when their main aim is to relax, travellers said that they enjoyed seeing the sights.

to aim

Beyond the novel, we come to works whose avowed aim is information.

No one in the village knew that the soldiers were taking aim at their village.

All of these sports and many others are dominated by the human urge to aim at something.

Granting that the aim is right, how will you carry out the plan?

Companions with the same aim, to carve out their own future, cooperate with each other.

They're some developers who aim to make a fast buck!

Our aim is that, when planning classes, we know how to select stimulating material for the students and how to put it into use.

They aimed to create products that were simple in design and could be easily mass produced. Some Bauhaus designers even tried to create an 'International Style', which would be suitable for all countries, cultures and traditions.

for/at sth / to do sth / be aimed at doing sth. - Aimed at higher efficiency or income

The government is aiming for 100% employment.

Sally hopes to get good marks because she’s aiming to go to university.

The project is the brainchild of a Japanese designer.

Paul and I had such great hopes for my brainchild.

It's his brainchild.

the CD record was the brainchild of Eric

The brainchild called Augmented Reality is creepy.

Take My Book, Please Bookcrossing is the brainchild of Ron Hornbaker, an entrepreneur and book lover who was running a software company when the idea came to him in 2001.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.

How nice of you!

Of course.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

A box of chocolates

We were sitting peacefully at dinner, when all of a sudden the lights went out.

To the best of my knowledge, this chemical will prevent germs from breeding.

Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Genes consist of a specific sequence of DNA.

Carpentry and bricklaying are examples of manual labor.

By the age of seven, he had already made his own bow and arrows.

When we started out in 2009, I was convinced that our store would become one of the best in the city.

I'm very particular about what kind of people I invite into my house.

If a man wants to learn to sound like a native speaker of Japanese, he shouldn't only learn Japanese from women. The reverse is true for a woman.

Something you should know about me is that I half of what I say is meaningless.

Tom had no conception of what fatherhood entailed.

I have only a general conception about how a computer works.

Immaculate conception simply means that the Virgin Mary herself was born without original sin. Virgin birth is how Christ came about.

Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.

There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.

They're eating high on the hog.

If I win the lottery, I'll be able to live high on the hog.

His hog got in my corn again.

to hog the telephone

Don't let him into the kitchen by himself. He's a hog

How much longer are you going to hog the bathroom?

What do you need this hog for? Do you know how hard it is to park this thing?

How do you like my hog? I paid a fortune to do all the changes.

Am I the one to hog your land?

They lived high on the hog for so long, and now they can't adjust to a simple life without luxuries.

cause problems

It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

The recent news about the Fukushima I nuclear power plant will likely strengthen the cause of the advocates who want to let our local nuclear power plant's license expire.

But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.

Technically, drugs that cause miosis can relieve the PNS effects of those causing mydriasis since sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation tend to negate each others' effects.

Do you know where my key is? I don't see it anywhere. "You must be looking for it with your eyes closed, then, cause it's on the table as always."

It is the drop in the rice pricing (blamed on consumers' loss of interest in rice and the freeing up of the international market) that is the cause.

Today, the milkman was buried. There were a lot of people, cause everybody in the village knew him. "Oh, is there a milkman in Linschoten?" "Well, no, not anymore!"

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Seagulls cause all types of disturbances by cackling loudly, spreading guano, tearing up garbage bags and attacking to get food.

The fact that educated Americans in general no longer share understandable background knowledge is a chief cause of their inability to communicate effectively.

In 2011, Toyota recalled two million vehicles which, they alleged, had gas pedals that could jam and cause the car to accelerate uncontrollably.

The oil spill is causing problems for coastal fisheries. The hurricane caused widespread damage