concept
a general notion or idea; conception.
an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.
a directly conceived or intuited object of thought.
functioning as a prototype or model of new product or innovation: a concept car,a concept phone.
Informal. to develop a concept of; conceive: He concepted and produced three films.
Origin of concept
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How to use concept in a sentence
One of the most persistent myths in American politics is the media-fueled concept of the lame duck.
The Liberation of the Lame Duck: Obama Goes Full Bulworth | John Avlon | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThink about it: Dodd-Frank was explicitly passed to drive a stake through the heart of the implicit concept of “too big to fail.”
But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The idea was to mess with the concept of Christmas,” recalled John Law, an original Cacophony member.
Before the Bros, SantaCon Was as an Anti-Corporate Protest | David Freedlander | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPrivilege can be a hard concept to get a handle on, especially for those who are immersed in it and reaping the benefits.
To make the effort of articulation a vital impulse in response to a mental concept,—this is the object sought.
Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge SouthwickThis is inconsistent with the ordinarily accepted concept of subspecies.
A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus | Walter W. DalquestAn underlying fallacy of Socialism is the concept that poverty or at least extreme poverty, can be banished from the world.
The Inhumanity of Socialism | Edward F. AdamsThe concept is based upon an unfounded belief in the competence of the average man.
The Inhumanity of Socialism | Edward F. AdamsTheir minds had had no concept of such horror, such relentless, racking pain.
The Link | Alan Edward Nourse
British Dictionary definitions for concept
/ (ˈkɒnsɛpt) /
an idea, esp an abstract idea: the concepts of biology
philosophy a general idea or notion that corresponds to some class of entities and that consists of the characteristic or essential features of the class
philosophy
the conjunction of all the characteristic features of something
a theoretical construct within some theory
a directly intuited object of thought
the meaning of a predicate
(modifier) (of a product, esp a car) created as an exercise to demonstrate the technical skills and imagination of the designers, and not intended for mass production or sale
Origin of concept
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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