单词 | conceive |
释义 | conceive (once / 102 pages) 1v 2v 3v 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. WORD FAMILYconceive: conceivable, conceived, conceiver, conceives, conceiving, conceptive, misconceive, preconceive+/conceivable: conceivability, conceivableness, conceivably, inconceivable/conceived: ill-conceived/conceiver: conceivers/concept: conceive, conception, concepts, conceptual, conceptualize/conception: conceptional, conceptions/conceptual: conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptuality, conceptually/conceptualise: conceptualisation/conceptualism: conceptualistic/conceptualization: conceptualizations/conceptualize: conceptualization, conceptualized, conceptualizes, conceptualizing/inconceivability: inconceivabilities/inconceivable: inconceivability, inconceivableness, inconceivably/misconceive: misconceived, misconceives, misconceiving, misconception/misconception: misconceptions/preconceive: preconceived, preconceives, preconception/preconception: preconceptions USAGE EXAMPLES“I think the thing that people sort of misinterpret about this is they’re well conceived. They fit their offense,” Saban said. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) The first baby conceived using a new method to combine material from two women and one man was born in Mexico. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Healy’s Lincoln portrait was conceived in the 1860s but executed some 20 years later. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 v have the idea for 2He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients This library was well conceived Syn|Hypo|Hyper conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate design conceive or fashion in the mind; invent preconceiveconceive beforehand discover, findmake a discovery, make a new finding create by mental act, create mentally create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands v judge or regard; look upon; judge 3The racist conceives such people to be inferior Syn|Hypo|Hyper believe, consider, think hold remain committed to rethinkchange one's mind thinkdispose the mind in a certain way esteem, look on, look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, think oflook on as or consider feelhave a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude consider, reckon, regard, see, viewdeem to be expectconsider reasonable or due receiveregard favorably or with disapproval reconsiderconsider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing reconsiderconsider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it includeconsider as part of something backpedalmodify one's opinion, make it less strong about-facechange one's mind and assume the opposite viewpoint considerregard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem callconsider or regard as being likefeel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard relativise, relativizeconsider or treat as relative identifyconsider (oneself) as similar to somebody else favor, favourconsider as the favorite abstractconsider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically reifyconsider an abstract concept to be real idealise, idealizeconsider or render as ideal deem, hold, take for, view askeep in mind or convey as a conviction or view esteem, prise, prize, respect, valueregard highly; think much of disesteem, disrespecthave little or no respect for; hold in contempt makeconsider as being capitalise, capitalizeconsider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses appreciate, prize, treasure, valuehold dear evaluate, judge, pass judgment form a critical opinion of v become pregnant; undergo conception She cannot conceive My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day Hypo|Hyper superfetate conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
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