Desired vs Ideal - What's the difference?
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(desire)
To want; to wish for earnestly.
* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24
* Tennyson
To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To want emotionally or sexually.
To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28
* Shakespeare
To require; to demand; to claim.
* Spenser
To miss; to regret.
* Jeremy Taylor
(countable) Someone or something wished for.
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, title= (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
(uncountable) Motivation.
(uncountable) The feeling of desire.
Optimal; being the best possibility.
Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
* Rambler
Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 256:
* 1818 , ,
Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
(mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty]] lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is [[closure, closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_prime_ideal_theorem#Prime_ideal_theorems]
(for example, algebra) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
As a verb desired
is past tense of desire.As an adjective ideal is
optimal; being the best possibility.As a noun ideal is
(a perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc.)A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.As a proper noun Ideal is
a city in Georgia, USA.desired
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Verb
(desir)- Neither shall any man desire thy land.
- Ye desire your child to live.
- And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
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- Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?
- Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.
- A doleful case desires a doleful song.
- She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.
Noun
(en-noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Synonyms
* (one or thing wished for) wanna, want-to * (motivation) wanna, want-toSee also
* velleityStatistics
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* * English control verbsideal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.
- The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —
[[s:Frankenstein/Chapter 4, Chapter 4],
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
- the ideal theory or philosophy
- ideal point
- An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.
Synonyms
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(en noun)- Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny -
- If (1) the empty set were called a "small" set, and (2) any subset of a "small" set were also a "small" set, and (3) the union of any pair of "small" sets were also a "small" set, then the set of all "small" sets would form an ideal .
- Let be the ring of integers and let be its ideal of even integers. Then the quotient ring is a Boolean ring.
- The product of two ideals and is an ideal which is a subset of the intersection of and . This should help to understand why maximal ideals' are prime ' ideals . Likewise, the union of and is a subset of .