<B>IDDM (no periods),</B><DL COMPACT><DD> insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. </DL>
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<B>ide</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an edible freshwater fish of northern Europe that resembles the chub. </DL>
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<B>ide</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> singular of <B>ides.</B> </DL>
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<B>-ide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) compound of, as in <I>oxide, chloride, sulfide.</I> Also, <B>-id.</B> </DL>
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<B>idea, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a picture or notion of anything in the mind; mental image. <BR> <I>Ex. to have an idea about how a thing should look. Eating candy and playing with toys are that little child's idea of happiness. What space does the idea of a pyramid occupy more than the idea of a grain of corn? (Samuel Johnson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any result of mental activity or understanding; a thought, fancy, or opinion; view; belief. <BR> <I>Ex. old-fashioned ideas. The new boy had no idea that work at school was so easy. I had an idea that the man might be a spy.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>an understanding of what is to be aimed at or what is desirable or ought to be; a governing principle; point or purpose. <BR> <I>Ex. The idea of a vacation is to get a rest. The statue has been restored and ... because the idea is perfect and indestructible, all these injuries do not ... impair the effect (Hawthorne).</I> (SYN) conception, concept. <DD><B> b. </B>a notion of something to be done; plan of action; intention. <BR> <I>Ex. the idea of an election by ballot (Edmund Burke). It's a good idea, if you can carry it out.</I> (SYN) conception, concept. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) a theme, phrase, or figure. <DD><B> 4a. </B>(in Platonic philosophy) one of the patterns of which things are imperfect copies and from which they derive their existence. <DD><B> b. </B>the immediate object of thought or mental perception according to Rene Descartes and John Locke. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) a person or thing regarded as perfect of its kind. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Obsolete.) the mental image or picture of something previously seen or known. <BR> <I>Ex. Though I despaired of possessing you ... I doated still on your charming idea (Henry Fielding).</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Obsolete.) a figure; representation; likeness. adj. <B>idealess.</B> </DL>
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<B>ideal, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a perfect type; model to be imitated; what one would wish to be. <BR> <I>Ex. Her mother is her ideal.</I> (SYN) example, pattern. <DD><B> 2. </B>an ideal end; goal. <BR> <I>Ex. Religion holds up high ideals for us to follow. The severest challenge facing American society ... is to make the practice of American life and the processes of American institutions conform reasonably to those ideals of liberty and equality and justice so often and so ringingly proclaimed (Tom Wicker).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>just as one would wish; perfect. <BR> <I>Ex. A warm, sunny day is ideal for a picnic.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>existing only in thought; imaginary. <BR> <I>Ex. A point without length, breadth, or thickness is an ideal object.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>not practical; visionary. (SYN) unreal, fanciful. <DD><B> 4. </B>having to do with ideas; representing an idea. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Philosophy.) regarding ideas as the only reality. noun <B>idealness.</B> </DL>
<B>idealism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the action or process of acting according to one's ideals of what ought to be regardless of what happens or of what people may think; cherishing of fine ideals. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of neglecting practical matters in following ideals; not being practical. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Philosophy.) the belief that reality is made up of ideas only and not of material objects. Idealism, as opposed to materialism, holds that objects do not really exist apart from our ideas. <DD><B> 4. </B>the representation in art or literature of imagined types rather than exact likenesses of people, instances, or situations. Idealism is opposed to realism. <DD><B> 5. </B>an ideal representation. </DL>
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<B>idealist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who has high ideals and acts according to them. <BR> <I>Ex. There is need for both the pragmatist who would harness in the public service man's drive for worldly goods and the idealist who would lift man's drive to more lofty goals (Charles L. Schultze).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who neglects practical matters in following ideals. (SYN) visionary. <DD><B> 3. </B>an adherent of idealism in art, literature, or philosophy. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=idealistic.</B> </DL>
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<B>idealistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having high ideals and acting according to them. <BR> <I>Ex. America is the only idealistic nation (Woodrow Wilson). The Japanese are an extremely idealistic people, for all their pragmatism (Shigeru Yoshida).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>forgetting or neglecting practical matters in trying to follow one's ideals; not practical. (SYN) impractical, visionary. <DD><B> 3. </B>of idealism or idealists. adv. <B>idealistically.</B> </DL>
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<B>ideality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>ideal quality or character. <DD><B> 2. </B>the ability to idealize. <DD><B> 3. </B>something ideal or imaginary. </DL>
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<B>idealize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to make ideal; think of or represent as perfect rather than as is actually true. <BR> <I>Ex. She idealized her older sister and thought that everything she did was right.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to imagine or form an ideal or ideals. <DD><B> 2. </B>to represent something in an ideal form. noun <B>idealization.</B> noun <B>idealizer.</B> </DL>
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<B>idealless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without an ideal. </DL>
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<B>ideally, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>according to an ideal; perfectly. <DD><B> 2. </B>only as an idea or theory; not really. </DL>
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<B>idealogue, </B>noun. <B>=ideologue.</B></DL>
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<B>ideal point,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) a point at infinity; the point at which parallel lines intersect. </DL>
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<B>idea man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one who is fertile or adept in conceiving new ideas that can be put into practice. <BR> <I>Ex. The hand of the artist has no part in the evolution of the work but is the mere executor of the idea man's command (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<B>ideate, </B>verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to form the idea of; imagine; conceive. <BR> <I>Ex. a state which Plato ideated (John Donne).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to form ideas; think. <DD><I>noun </I> the external object of which an idea is formed. </DL>
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<B>ideation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the formation of ideas. </DL>
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<B>ideational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the formation of ideas. <BR> <I>Ex. By hewing to the fine line between the reportage of the living facts and their desiccated ideational background he provides a very lively account (Saturday Review).</I> adv. <B>ideationally.</B> </DL>
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<B>idee fixe, </B>pl. <B>idees fixes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a fixed idea; obsession. <BR> <I>Ex. After the Anschluss the gambler [Hitler] with the idee fixe sat at the driver's wheel (Manchester Guardian Weekly). He was right away her absorption and idee fixe (Saul Bellow).</I> </DL>
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<B>idee recue, </B>pl. <B>idees recues.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a prevailing or conventional idea, opinion, or outlook. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] repeats a number of idees recues which do not stand up to closer examination (Manchester Guardian Weekly). Children ... may be less articulate than adults, but they ... are often, having accepted fewer idees recues, more perceptive (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) received idea. </DL>
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<B>idem, </B>pronoun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) the same as previously given or mentioned. (Abbr:) id. </DL>
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<B>idempotency, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) the property of remaining unchanged under multiplication by itself. <BR> <I>Ex. Idempotency ... corresponds to reflexiveness and occurs if an operation produces no change in the number or set on which it operates (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>idempotent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) having or characterized by idempotency. <BR> <I>Ex. Logical multiplication is said to be idempotent, signifying that all "powers" of a set are the same, and hence there is no need for the exponential symbolism of common algebra (Edna E. Kramer).</I> </DL>
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<B>identic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=identical.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>denoting identical language or action in diplomacy agreed on by two or more governments dealing simultaneously with a third. <BR> <I>Ex. an identic note.</I> </DL>
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<B>identical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the same. <BR> <I>Ex. Both events happened on the identical day.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>exactly alike. <BR> <I>Ex. The two new pennies were identical. 6 feet 2 inches and 74 inches are identical amounts.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Logic.) expressing identity of terms, as in the proposition "Man is a human being." An identical proposition is one whose subject and predicate mean the same thing. adv. <B>identically.</B> noun <B>identicalness.</B> </DL>
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<B>identical equation,</B> <B>=identity.</B></DL>
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<B>identical twins,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> twins of the same sex and physical appearance coming from a single fertilized egg cell rather than from two egg cells as fraternal twins do. <BR> <I>Ex. The occurrence of human identical twins has been known for a long time, and their potential usefulness in genetic research has been widely recognized (J. Hancock).</I> </DL>
