Concept and Design

Concept

Concept noun - An idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation.

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Design and concept are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Design" instead a noun "Concept".

Design noun - A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective.

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Concept and design are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Concept" instead a noun "Design".

human	human concept	human design
old	old concept	old design
good	good concept	good design
exact	exact concept	exact design
Other adjectives: similar, common, alien, original, initial, simple, actual, entire, great, unused, new, unique, early, traditional, general, basic, different, earlier, modern, overall.

Supposedly the Nail was so successful the Germans stole the design and concept after they encountered them firsthand.

Source: Improvised Weapon / Real Life
Their mecha are, however, all red and all blue respectively and explicitly compared to oni in concept and design just to be obvious.

Source: Red Oni Blue Oni / Anime and Manga
Due to the popularity of the Wii's Mii avatar system, many games have tried to copy off of its concept and design.

Source: Follow The Leader / Video Games

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