from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To form an idea of; imagine or conceive: "Such characters represent a grotesquely blown-up aspect of an ideal man . . . if not realizable, capable of being ideated” ( Anthony Burgess).
- intransitive v. To conceive mental images; think.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
- v. To generate an idea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To form in idea; to fancy.
- transitive v. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- . 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.
- n. In metaphysics, the correlative or object of an idea; the real or actual existence correlating with an idea.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
If your PowerPoint deck contains the word "ideate," cut and do not paste.
But though "ideate" is tied to ancient philosophy, the word itself is a modern concoction, relatively speaking.
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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 ...
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.
To tell the truth, there's probabably fifty entries above far better than I could ideate.
Consider offering some “structured down time” for people to ideate.
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Listening to the same set of people ideate day in and day out will lead to staleness that can only be smelt by someone outside the building.
The morning session has been enlightening so far: Internet = Important, marketing should be integrated, “ideate” is apparently a verb.