Conceive

Definition: Conceive

Conceive

Verb

1. Have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived".

2. Judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior".

3. Become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "conceive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Conceive

Beginning

Verb: begin, start, commence; conceive, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter; set out; (depart); embark in; incept.

Belief

View as, consider as, take as, hold as, conceive as, regard as, esteem as, deem as, look upon as, account as, set down as; surmise.

Think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion; n.

Dislike

Verb: mislike misrelish, dislike, disrelish; mind, object to; have rather not, would rather not, prefer not to, not care for; have a dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a dislike for, take a dislike to, have an aversion to, have an aversion for; have no taste for, have no stomach for.

Hate

Owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear malice; (malevolence); conceive an aversion to, take a dislike to.

Imagination

Verb: imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name".

Knowledge

Conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy, appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience.

Productiveness

Verb: make -productive; Adjective: fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify; teem, multiply; produce; conceive.

Skill

Phrase: ars celare artem; artes honorabit; celui qui veut celui-la peut; c'est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher sonhabilite; expertus metuit; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt; "heart to conceive the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute"; if you have lemons, make lemonade.

Crosswords: Conceive

Being a slayer means something you can't conceive of. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

There are herbs that can make a woman conceive, are there not? (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott)

How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? (The Sheltering Sky; writing credit: Mark Peploe)

Now, on the matter of motive, we ask you: Why did you conceive, plan and execute this dastardly and scandalous crime? (The First Great Train Robbery; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

I thought you kept the alcohol level in your blood too high to conceive. (Two Pints of Lager; writing credit: Susan Nickson)

Much to conceive (Fade; performing artist: Staind)

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Books

• High Performance Goal Setting : Using Intuition to Conceive and Achieve Your Dreams (reference)

• How to Invent Your Way to Wealth: How to Conceive, Develop and Profit from Your Own Invention (reference)

• Into the Depths of God: Where Eyes See the Invisible, Ears Hear the Inaudible and Minds Conceive the Inconceivable (reference)

• Perceive, Conceive, Achieve the Sustainable City: A European Tetralogy: Aesthetics, Functionality and Desirability of the Sustainable City (reference)

• Testimonials by Unarius students : to help the new seeker conceive the great and various benefits of Unarius (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And thus, I think, it is very easy to conceive, without any difficulty, how labour could at first begin a title of property in the common things of nature, and how the spending it upon our uses bounded it. (Second Treatise of Government)

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He could easily conceive that a Houyhnhnm grew weak and heavy a few days before his death, or by some accident might hurt a limb.

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Health

Prolactin-releasing tumors in a man or woman with MEN1 may inhibit fertility and make it difficult to conceive. (references)

If a woman has a small prolactinoma, there is no reason that she cannot conceive and have a normal pregnancy after successful medical therapy. (references)

A woman with a prolactinoma should discuss her plans to conceive with her physician, so she can be carefully evaluated prior to becoming pregnant. (references)

Business

Such births are unreported so that the parents can keep trying to conceive a boy. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

Most of the territory was annexed by Poland and Lithuania in the 14th century, but during that time, the Ukrainian people began to conceive of themselves as a distinct people, a feeling which survived subsequent partitioning by greater powers over the next centuries. (references)

Human Rights

China

These skewed statistics reflect both the underreporting of female births so that parents can keep trying to conceive a boy, and the abuse of sonograms leading to the termination of pregnancies based on the sex of the fetus. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "conceive": conceive a hatred ♦ conceive a hatred for ♦ conceive an aversion to ♦ conceive hatred for smb. ♦ conceive of ♦ conceive of smth. ♦ i can't conceive why. Additional references.

Albanian

shpreh me fjalë (utter, verbalize, word), përfytyroj (depicture, dream, dream up, envision, fancy, figure, figure to oneself, give rein to one's imagination, image, imagine, picture, realize, visualize), mendoj (believe, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween), krijoj (brew, compose, contract, create, develop, erect, establish, forge, form, found, institute, make, originate, pen, procreate, produce, raise, shape, sow, transact), konceptoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏تحمل المرأة, ‏تحبل المرأة, ‏تصور (be photographed, conception, envisage, fantasy, ideation, imagination, imagine, phantasy, picture, project, see, suppose, vision, visualization, visualize), ‏تخيل (dream up, envisage, fancy, feature, fiction, figure, figure to oneself, image, imagine, make believe, picture, project oneself, see, think, vision, visualization, visualize), ‏عد (calculate, commit oneself, count, count smb., enumerate, enumeration, number, tally, tell, think out), ‏عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate, voice), ‏إعتقد (believe, calculate, consider, deem, imagine, reckon, say, suppose, think), ‏رأى (catch sight of, consider, discern, estimation, pronouncement, see, set eyes on, sight, spy, suppose, take notice). (various references)

Bulgarian 

считам (deem, esteem, guess, hold, look on, make, reckon, regard, repute, see, suppose, think, vote), формулирам (draw, formulate, pin down), зачевам, забременявам (become pregnant, settle), представям си (dream, envisage, fancy, figure to oneself, image, imagine, picture to oneself, represent to oneself, see, suppose, think), поражда се у мен, изразявам (articulate, carve, clothe, convey, couch, express, import, phrase, put, render, signify), измислям (coin, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, evolve, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

Chinese 

设想 (Conceived, Conceiving), 構想 . (various references)

Czech

zplodit (beget, engender, father, procreate, reproduce, sire), vymyslit si, vymyslet (concoct, conjure, devise, invent, lay), poèít, otìhotnìt (become pregnant). (various references)

Dutch

zwanger raken, in verwachting raken. (various references)

Esperanto

koncipi, gravediĝi. (various references)

Faeroese

gita lív. (various references)

Finnish

hedelmöityä (be fertilized). (various references)

French

concevoir. (various references)

German

ausdenken (concoct, contrive, devise, imagine, invent, make through, make up, plan, strikeout, think of, think out, think up, to conceive, to invent, to think out, work out). (various references)

Greek 

καταλαμβάνω (occupy, seize, sit in, understand), συλλαμβάνω (apprehend, arrest, capture, catch, grasp, nab, place under arrest, seize, take into custody), φαντάζομαι (envisage, fancy, image, imagine, visualize), εννοώ (comprehend, drive at, mean, purport, realize, understand), διανοούμαι (cerebrate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעבר (fecundate, impregnate, make pregnant), לחבל תחבולות (plot, scheme), ל�"תעבר (become pregnant), ל�"עלות על �"�"עת, ל�"רות (become pregnant). (various references)

Hungarian

teherbe ejt (to get sy into trouble, to put sy up the duff), kigondol (cogitate, devise, excogitate, think out, to cogitate, to contrive, to cook up, to design, to devise, to father, to figure out, to figure up, to think out), fogan (engender). (various references)

Indonesian

menyusun (arrange, assort, compilate, configure, constitute, contrive, run along), membenihkan (germinate). (various references)

Italian

concepire (entertain, imagine, understand), immaginare (envisage, fancy, figure, image, imagine, invent, picture, suppose, think, visualise, visualize), ideare (contrive, design, plan, think up), generare (be generated, bear, beget, breed, develop, engender, generate, give birth to, procreate, produce, sire). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

子供�'妊む (to become pregnant, to conceive), 孕む (to become pregnant, to conceive, to get filled with), 宿す (to carry, to conceive, to keep). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"ども�'はらむ (to become pregnant, to conceive), やどす (to carry, to conceive, to keep), はらむ (to become filled with, to become pregnant, to conceive, to get filled with, to swell). (various references)

Korean 

회태하십시�". (various references)

Manx

sheiltyn (conceiving, conjecture, fancy, guess, imagine, presume, speculate, suppose, supposing, theorize, visualize), gientyn (beget, begetting, breeding, conceiving, conception, engender, evolve, father, form, generate, generation, procreate, produce, production, progeniture). (various references)

Papiamen

priña. (various references)

Pig Latin

onceivecay

Portuguese

conceber (accept, become pregnant, couch, father, form, frame, ideate, think, understand). (various references)

Romanian

concepe (cogitate, compose, conceive of, devise, draft, gender, hatch, ideate, imagine, indite, rough draft, sketch, think, word, write), zãmisli (engender, father, form, get), pricepe (apprehend, catch, catch on, come it, compass, comprehend, cotton, enter into, latch on, perceive, pick out, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, take, take in, tumble to, understand), plãnui (cast about to, contemplate, devise, meditate, plan, project, scheme, stage), imagina (devise, fancy, frame, ideate, imagine, invent, picture, think, visualize), exprima (advance, breathe, connote, convey, couch, declare, express, formulate, have, indicate, look, phrase, put, represent, show, signify, sound, speak, state, utter, voice), înţelege (agree, apprehend, bottom, catch, come it, compass, comprehend, fathom, follow, grasp, interpret, latch on, make of, perceive, read, realize, savvy, scheme, see, see into, seize, take, tumble to, twig, understand), îşi imagina, îşi închipui (calculate). (various references)

Russian 

задумывать (design, mastermind, plan, think). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatrudneti (become pregnant), zamisliti (fancy, ideate, imagine, plan, see, think), smisliti (devise, think out), shvatiti (apprehend, apprise, apprize, catch, catch on, comprehend, figure out, get, grasp, realize, sense, tumble, twig, understand), naumiti (contrive, decide). (various references)

Spanish

concebir (envisage, form, shape). (various references)

Swedish

uttänka, fatta (catch, compass, cotton on, get, grasp, latch on to, lay hold of, pick up, savvy, see, seize, take, take in, understand). (various references)

Thai

เข้าใจ (dig, digest, fathom, get, make, puzzle out, see, seize, suss, take), ตั้งครร� ์ (gestate), คิ�" (cerebrate, conceit). (various references)

Turkish

yazmak (clock up, commit to paper, compose, draw, draw up, enroll, enter, grind out, indite, inscribe, note, note down, pen, put down, put on paper, record, reduce to writing, register, set, set down, take down, write, write down, write out), yaratmak (beget, call into being, compose, create, father, incur, originate, procreate), tasavvur etmek (fancy, imagine, shadow, think), ortaya çıkarmak (bring into the open, bring out, bring to light, bring to pass, detect, disclose, discover, expose, ferret out, get at, hit off, lay bare, pick out, search out, show up, sift out, smoke out, throw into relief, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unveil), kavramak (absorb, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, bite, catch, catch on, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, come home, compass, comprehend, cup, dawn on, digest, discern, fathom, get, get a grip, get hold of, grasp, grip, hold, latch on to, nail, perceive, pick up, realize, see into, seize, sum up, twig, understand), ifade etmek (amount, be enunciative of, breathe, connote, couch, denote, describe, emit, enounce, express, figure, frame, give voice to, import, mean, purport, reflect, represent, sign, signify, state, utter, voice, word), gebe kalmak (become pregnant, conceive of), düşünmek (allow, balance, be pensive, bethink oneself, cerebrate, cogitate, consider, consult, contemplate, deliberate, envision, excogitate, fancy, figure, give a thought, give thought to, imagine, intend, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of), anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, comprehend, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken, work out), aklı almak. (various references)

Ukrainian

уявити собі, відчути, вважати (account, allot, allow, assume, believe, calculate, consider, count, deem, opine, posit, rate, repute, set down, suspect, think), зрозуміти (apprehend, catch, comprehend, get, grasp, gripe, twig), зачати, завагітніти, задумувати (agitate, compose, design), збагнути (apprehend, catch, comprehend, gather one's wits, get at, penetrate, tumble to). (various references)

Welsh

ymddw+yn (bear), beichiogi. (various references)

concepta, concepto, fingo, fingo, finxi, fictum, fingo-finxi-fictum, finxi, imaginatus, imbibo, teneo iter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "conceive": conceived, conceiver, conceivers, conceives. (additional references)

Words ending with "conceive": misconceive, preconceive, reconceive. (additional references)

Words containing "conceive": misconceived, misconceiver, misconceivers, misconceives, preconceived, preconceives, reconceived, reconceives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conceive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cobceive, coceive, conceite, conceiva, conceize, conceve, conciev, concieve, concisive, concive, concurve, Kokciede. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: evince, novice.

-3 letters: conic, coven, covin, envoi, niece, nieve, ovine, voice.

-4 letters: cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, cove, even, icon, neve, nevi, nice, once, oven, vein, vice, vine, vino.

-5 letters: cee, con, eon, eve, ice, ion, nee, one, vee, vie, voe.

+1 letter: conceived, conceiver, conceives.

+2 letters: conceivers, conceptive, concessive, connective, convective, reconceive, reconvince, uncoercive.

+3 letters: conceivable, connectives, consecutive, convenience, conveniency, conventicle, covalencies, misconceive, nociceptive, noncoercive, preconceive, reconceived, reconceives, reconvicted, reconvinced, reconvinces.

+4 letters: coerciveness, concessively, connectively, consecrative, conveniences, conventicler, conventicles, misconceived, misconceiver, misconceives, preconceived, preconceives, reconceiving, uncoercively.

+5 letters: concentrative, conduciveness, consecutively, conservancies, contraceptive, conveniencies, conventiclers, convergencies, conversancies, counteractive, inconceivable, inconsecutive, inconvenience, inconveniency, misconceivers, preconceiving, unconceivable.