- Concept
- Forgetfulness
- General idea
- The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or
the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
- The act process of leaving out of consideration one or
more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others;
analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself,
or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the
act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness,
softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical
nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as,
a hermit's abstraction.
- General idea
- Idea or abstract principle
- Prototype, ... car
- The idea is to change right inside concert
- An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
- A central idea to look after someone’s stock
- Commercially pasture livestock
- Feed (cattle) for fee
- Feed and pasture livestock
- Feed stock for payment
- Graze animals for payment
- Graze for fee
- Around noon, it became an idea
- Caprice
- Concept
- Consciousness
- Fanciful idea
- Idea
- Vague idea
- ... operandi: method of working
- The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a
contract or conveyance.
- A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure
from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or
enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will
of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like.
- A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment
of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
- The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival,
motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it,
access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward;
-- opposed to from.
- Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a
time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being
regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going
to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.
- In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of
application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or
indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs
with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon
that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation;
as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this
seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to
the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous
liquor.
- As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last
defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it
as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to
go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my
utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost
constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no
prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or
subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's
country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the
infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed
the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt.
xi. 8).
- In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to
has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
- Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as;
as, they met us to the number of three hundred.
- Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to
his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to
the prejudice of the state.