Ideal vs Wild - What's the difference?

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Ideal is a related term of wild.

As a noun ideal

is ideal (perfect standard).

As a proper noun wild is

for a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.

ideal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Optimal; being the best possibility.

Perfect, flawless, having no defects.

* Rambler

There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.

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:

The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —

* 1818 , ,^{[[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.

Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.

the ideal theory or philosophy

(mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.

ideal point

An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(en noun)

A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.

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 -

(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]}

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 .

(for example, algebra) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.

Let

\mathbb{Z}

be the ring of integers and let

2\mathbb{Z}

be its ideal of even integers. Then the quotient ring

\mathbb{Z} / 2\mathbb{Z}

is a Boolean ring.

The product of two ideals

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

is an ideal

\mathfrak{a b}

which is a subset of the intersection of

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

. This should help to understand why maximal ideals' are prime ' ideals . Likewise, the union of

\mathfrak{a}

and

\mathfrak{b}

is a subset of

\mathfrak{a + b}

Antonyms

* (order theory) filter

Derived terms

* left ideal * right ideal * two-sided ideal * principal ideal

External links

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Anagrams

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wild

English

Adjective

(er)

Untamed; not domesticated.

* Shakespeare

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

* Milton

The woods and desert caves, / With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan

, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

(senseid) Unrestrained or uninhibited.

Raucous, unruly, or licentious.

Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=August 7, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Man City 2-3 Man Utd , passage=City, in contrast, were lethargic in every area of the pitch and their main contribution in the first half-hour was to keep referee Phil Dowd busy, with Micah Richards among four of their players booked early on, in his case for a wild lunge on Young.}}

Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.

Enthusiastic.

Inaccurate.

Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.

a wild roadstead

(nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.

(mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Antonyms

* (mathematics) tame

Derived terms

* in the wild * walk on the wild side * wild allspice * wild and woolly * wild animal * wild balsam apple * wild basil * wild blueberry * wild boar * wild bugloss * wild camomile * wild card * wildcard * wildcarrot * wild cat * wildcat * wildcat strike * wildcatter * wild celery * wild cherry * wild child * wildcrafting * wild cumin * wild drake * wildebeest * wild elder * wilden * wilder * wilderness * wildest * wild-eyed * wildfire * wildflower * wildfowl * wild geranium * wild ginger * wild goose * wild goose chase * wild-goose chase * wild hyacinth * wilding * wild Irishman * wildish * wild land * wild licorice * wildlife * wildly * wild mammee * wild marjoram * wild mustard * wildness * wild oat * wild pieplant * wild pigeon * wild pink * wild pitch * wild plantain * wild plum * wild purslane * wild rice * wild rye * wild Spaniard * wild strawberry * wildstyle * wild turkey * wild vanilla * Wild West * wildwood

Adverb

(en adverb)

Inaccurately; not on target.

The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.

Noun

(en noun)

The undomesticated state of a wild animal

After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild

(chiefly, in the plural) a wilderness

* 1730–1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

Thus every good his native wilds impart

Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;

And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise

Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.

Verb

(en verb)

To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.

* 1989 , David E. Pitt, Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours , New York Times (April 22, 1989), page 1:

*:: ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".

*:: "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...

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