Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To form an idea of; imagine or conceive.
- intransitive verb To conceive mental images; think.
from The Century Dictionary.
- . To form in idea or thought; fancy.
- To apprehend mentally so as to retain and be able to recall; fix permanently in the mind.
- To form ideas; think.
- In metaphysics, produced by an idea, specifically by a Platonic idea; existing by virtue of its participation in an idea.
- noun In metaphysics, the correlative or object of an idea; the real or actual existence correlating with an idea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To form in idea; to fancy.
- transitive verb rare To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To apprehend in
thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; tomemorize . - verb To generate an
idea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
Etymologies
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If your PowerPoint deck contains the word "ideate," cut and do not paste.
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But though "ideate" is tied to ancient philosophy, the word itself is a modern concoction, relatively speaking.
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Consider offering some “structured down time” for people to ideate.
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Consider offering some “structured down time” for people to ideate.
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Understanding that kids are excellent innovators, Latitude Research in conjunction with ReadWriteWeb recently conducted a study asking children to ideate concepts for new computer and ...
The Future Of Tech According To Kids: Immersive, Intuitive And Down-To-Earth 2010
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Understanding that kids are excellent innovators, Latitude Research in conjunction with ReadWriteWeb recently conducted a study asking children to ideate concepts for new computer and Web technologies - and the results are in.
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Understanding that kids are excellent innovators, Latitude Research in conjunction with ReadWriteWeb recently conducted a study asking children to ideate concepts for new computer and Web technologies - and the results are in.
The Future Of Tech According To Kids: Immersive, Intuitive And Down-To-Earth 2010
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To tell the truth, there's probabably fifty entries above far better than I could ideate.
Give Hillary a Medal 2008
trivet commented on the word ideate
Webster 1913:
To form in idea; to fancy.
To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
July 7, 2007
ecbrenner commented on the word ideate
Honestly, until I looked it up I thought this was a horrible made-up marketing term.
April 7, 2009
zeke commented on the word ideate
@ecbrenner me too
February 17, 2011