conceive
To conceive is to come up with an idea. If you conceive a plan for your little brother’s birthday, you dream up the perfect party, complete with a magician, rented ponies, and a cake shaped like a rocket.
Latin roots for conceive (by way of French) point to “take into” either “the womb” or “the mind.” An idea is sometimes called “a seed” or “the seed of an idea,” and conceive means to produce something from inside the mind — or to become pregnant. Another expression is “pregnant with ideas” or “pregnant with possibilities,” and someone who can “conceive of a thousand ways” to solve a problem or design something is full of new ideas.
Definitions of conceive
have the idea for
“He
conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients”“This library was well
conceived”-
synonyms:
conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate-
types:
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designconceive or fashion in the mind; invent
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preconceiveconceive beforehand
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discover, findmake a discovery, make a new finding
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type of:
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create by mental act, create mentallycreate mentally and abstractly rather than with one’s hands
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design
judge or regard; look upon; judge
“The racist
conceives such people to be inferior”-
types:
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holdremain committed to
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rethinkchange one’s mind
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thinkdispose the mind in a certain way
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esteem, look on, look upon, perceive, regard as, repute, take to be, think oflook on as or consider
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feelhave a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone’s behavior or attitude
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consider, reckon, regard, see, viewdeem to be
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expectconsider reasonable or due
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receiveregard favorably or with disapproval
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reconsiderconsider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing
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reconsiderconsider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it
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includeconsider as part of something
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backpedalmodify one’s opinion, make it less strong
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about-facechange one’s mind and assume the opposite viewpoint
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considerregard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem
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callconsider or regard as being
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likefeel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard
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relativise, relativizeconsider or treat as relative
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identifyconsider (oneself) as similar to somebody else
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favor, favourconsider as the favorite
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abstractconsider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
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reifyconsider an abstract concept to be real
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idealise, idealizeconsider or render as ideal
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deem, hold, take for, view askeep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
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esteem, prise, prize, respect, valueregard highly; think much of
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disesteem, disrespecthave little or no respect for; hold in contempt
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makeconsider as being
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capitalise, capitalizeconsider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses
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appreciate, prize, treasure, valuehold dear
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evaluate, judge, pass judgmentform a critical opinion of
become pregnant; undergo conception
“She cannot
conceive”-
types:
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superfetateconceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus
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type of:
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change state, turnundergo a transformation or a change of position or action
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superfetate
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