Ideal vs Dream - What's the difference?
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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.
Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
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A hope or wish.
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* (Martin Luther King)
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (w) (1819-1885)
(lb) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
(lb) To hope, to wish.
(lb) To daydream.
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(lb) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
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*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Cowper)
*:And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
*:At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
(lb) To consider the possibility (of).
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*1599-1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act I scene 5, lines 167-8
*:There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
As nouns the difference between ideal and dream
is that ideal is (a perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc.)A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at while dream is imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.As an adjective ideal
is optimal; being the best possibility.As a proper noun Ideal
is a city in Georgia, USA.As a verb dream is
to see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.ideal
English
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 .
Antonyms
* (order theory) filterDerived terms
* left ideal * right ideal * two-sided ideal * principal idealExternal links
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English
(wikipedia dream)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The derivation from Old English dr?am'' is controversial, since the word itself is only attested in writing in its meaning of “joy, mirth, musical sound”. Possibly there was a separate word ''dr?am meaning “images seen while sleeping”, which was avoided in literature due to potential confusion with “joy” sense, which would account for the common definition in the other Germanic languages, or the derivation may indeed simply be a strange progression from “mirth, joy, musical sound”.. Attested words for “sleeping vision” in Old English were . The verb is from (etyl) (m), possibly (see above) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
- I had a dream' which was not all a ' dream .
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams .
- I have a dream' that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a ' dream today!
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- There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, / Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream .
- It is not to them a mere dream , but a very real aim which they propose.