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[kuhn-seev]

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verb (used with object)

to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.

to form a notion or idea of; imagine.

to hold as an opinion; think; believe: I can't conceive that it would be of any use.

to experience or form (a feeling): to conceive a great love for music.

to express, as in words.

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to become pregnant with.

to beget.

to begin, originate, or found (something) in a particular way (usually used in the passive): a new nation conceived in liberty.

Archaic. to understand; comprehend.

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verb (used without object)

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to form an idea; think (usually followed by of).

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to become pregnant.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French conceivre < Latin concipere to take fully, take in, equivalent to con- con- + -cipere, combining form of capere to take

Related forms

con·ceiv·er, noun

non·con·ceiv·ing, noun, adjective

re·con·ceive, verb, -ceived, -ceiving.

un·con·ceived, adjective

well-con·ceived, adjective

Synonyms
2, 8. See imagine.

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Example Sentences

Cain's tax plan stands out as exceptionally ill conceived.

Both teaching and research need to be connected to problems and issues of religious studies broadly conceived.

China is not a good country in which to be conceived as a second daughter.

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Cain's tax plan stands out as exceptionally ill conceived.

Both teaching and research need to be connected to problems and issues of religious studies broadly conceived.

China is not a good country in which to be conceived as a second daughter.

But at the time, astronomers conceived of the universe as a large collection of stars fixed forever in the void.

Ethical considerations aside, a major issue in cloning is whether or not clones are as healthy as normally conceived animals.

Renwick conceived the central portion with three stories, but one of those floors was lost to preconstruction cost cutting.

Antheil conceived of his elaborate creations as celebrations of machines as music makers.

The problem for people who have conceived with donor gametes is that they know it's not true.

It is also to recognize that diversity so conceived can conflict with other values.

Babies have been conceived and born in the time that inflation has been above target.

But the shifts in time and place are cleverly conceived.

Basic research has provided access to technologies that were never conceived well in advance of their discoveries.

Architecture is usually conceived as the aesthetic design of the structure, while the construction is purely civil engineering.

There are three designs, each conceived for a different activity.

Our renovation and addition features over a dozen newly conceived areas, from group collaboration zones, to quiet reading rooms.

America rightly thinks of itself as a country conceived in liberty.

Originally conceived of as an extended family-style project.

Pompuraawans perceptions are extremely high context, in which content cannot be conceived as independent of context.

Hagans conceived of the idea when he noticed that there were no mainstream rankings for online schools.

But it is also a country that was conceived by puritans.

His first project, conceived as a teaching aid, was to photograph the process itself.

The effect is lost when his paintings are removed from the placements for which they were conceived for display in other contexts.

The practice must have been conceived by some techno-gaga administrator who wanted to be cutting-edge.

Many of them will end up living in new cities that have not yet been conceived.

They conceived the idea and discussed the subject with me.

The way problems are conceived has a tremendous impact on the legal and policy solutions used to solve them.

It is hard to think of a military enterprise that has been conceived in so much doubt and anxiety.

No possibility at all that the program and scheme is wrong headed and ill conceived.

Snow conceived of his thesis at a time when the humanities lorded it over the sciences.

Just stick to the point conceived as narrowly as possible so that it can be said of you that you added not.

Preliminary findings show an increased risk of birth defects in babies conceived with in vitro fertilization.

Conceived by a task force comprising nine committees, the plan sets a number of goals for departments throughout the university.

The entire structure was conceived with the nomadic lifestyles of modern students and faculty in mind.

The current economic recession, caused by the same types of greedy people who conceived of and financed this.

Charter schools, which are publicly financed but independently run, were conceived as a way to improve academic performance.

Thimonnier conceived of a machine that could sew a.

But nearby residents say the town's proposal is poorly conceived and possibly dangerous.

My argument was conceived in my den before dawn in a stream of consciousness rather than streaming video.

When the secrets are conceived will be the chance to reveal them in the name of progress.

He first conceived the drive-in as the answer to a problem.

The machine was conceived for special occasions, such as parades and celebrations for a king's visit.

Two search-and-rescue vehicles, conceived continents apart.

What was conceived as a bilateral talk turned instead into a negotiation with an emerging-market block.

These simplistic conceptualizations, conceived independently, appear to be consistent with the described concept of ether.

Many of the pieces were conceived of by artists and then executed in tandem with printmakers.

Initially, it was conceived to replace coaxial cables and remove the need to drill holes and string wires.

Unfortunately, almost no problem can be productively conceived in this way.

As a fighter, conceived to shoot down other high-tech supersonic fighter jets.

Science hitherto has conceived of energy as based on a destructive principle.

At the time, the phone was conceived of as a business machine that would connect two offices with a permanently open line.

These and the other plays were not at first conceived as a decade-by-decade series, nor were they written in matching sequence.

To many times great ideas are dismissed as the work of ill conceived minds with no central focus.

But it's also extremely heavy and plagued by a horridly conceived control setup that features buttons.

The problem of lixiviation will be cracked when once properly conceived landfill sites are optimised.

It was so well conceived that the basic design, with some modifications, remains in use to this day.

The world needs and deserves a much better plan than a poorly conceived and misdirected currency fix.

Laws were indeed conceived as social safeguards meant to improve with time and to protect us from ourselves.

Radio in those days was conceived mainly as a two-way point-to-point medium.

Ie, the individual is only conceived of in economic, cost-benefit terms.

The advantage of the iPhone is that it was conceived from the beginning to be controlled by touching the screen.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

conceive

late 13c., from stem of O.Fr. conceveir, from L. concipere (pp. conceptus) "to take in and hold," from com- intensive prefix + comb. form of capere "to take," from PIE *kap- "to grasp" (see capable). Originally "take (seed) into the womb, become pregnant;" sense of "take

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into the mind" is from mid-14c.

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Medical Dictionary

conceive con·ceive (kən-sēv')
v. con·ceived, con·ceiv·ing, con·ceives

To become pregnant.
To apprehend mentally; to understand.

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