ideate
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈaɪdieɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb
ideate (third-person singular simple present ideates, present participle ideating, simple past and past participle ideated)
- To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
- To generate an idea.
- Coordinate terms: brainstorm, innovate; brainchild (rare)
Derived terms
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Translations
Adjective
ideate (not comparable)
- Produced by an idea.
Alternative forms
Noun
ideate (plural ideates)
- (metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
Further reading
- “ideate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ideate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Italian
Verb
ideate
- inflection of ideare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
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