original idea
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforiginalandidea
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original
adjective
uk/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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idea
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪə/us/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition oforiginalandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Under these conditions, would theoriginalideawork?
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This is hardly anoriginalidea.
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Theoriginalideaof a profile developed into a plethora of projects that in scope was far greater than originally envisaged.
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But it was obviously hisoriginalideato convert this school custom into a creative act.
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It is certainly not anoriginalideato suggest that such monuments incorporated alignments.
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This is a strikinglyoriginalidea.
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Theoriginalideaon how the problems could be divided is quite intriguing.
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Besides scalability issues, such effort is contradictory to theoriginalideaof local control over both resources and their organization.
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In this case, theoriginalideaof a separate francophone market with goals other than those of the dominant market is being undermined.
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A detailed analysis of the selected solution allows the designer to evaluate his 0 heroriginalidea, giving a feedback of results on the hypothesis.
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Theoriginalideawas that we would work in a mentoring relationship.
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Theoriginalideafor the play was written quite quickly, and its structure was clear.
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Although not everyone accepts this approach, it seems to be anoriginalidea, definitely worth investigating.
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There are two problems with theoriginalideahowever.
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Based on theoriginalidea, two peaks on the correlation map should be identified, the highest and the second highest.
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Contemporary assisted-living environments do not necessarily achieve this objective, and so this book provides a timely reminder about the ethos behind theoriginalidea.
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Theoriginalideawas that the surfaces with the best transition-delaying properties would need to be as compliant as possible without being vulnerable to hydroelastic instability.
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A necessary modification of theoriginalideais that we must allow the act of erasure to operate critically rather than as merely neutral cancellation of its object.
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Aristotle'soriginalideawas to be sensitive to the beliefs and attitudes that prevail in real-life societies and communities.
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Theoriginalideawas to rotate these three for a period and then appoint the most successful on a permanent basis, but this did not happen.
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