Conceive
To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of.
Related Definitions:
An,
And,
Apprehend,
As,
Become,
Begin,
Breed,
By,
Comprehend,
Conceive,
Conception,
Devise,
Embryo,
Fetus,
Form,
Formation,
Formed,
Generate,
Have,
Hope,
Idea,
Imagination,
Imagine,
In,
Into,
Know,
Mind,
Of,
Opinion,
Or,
Originate,
Plan,
Pregnant,
Purpose,
Reason,
Receive,
Take,
The,
Think,
To,
Understand,
With,
Womb
Conceive Quotations
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Napoleon Hill
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson
Conceive Translations
conceive in Dutch is in verwachting raken, zwanger raken
conceive in German is ersinnen, ausdenken, begreifen
conceive in Latin is imbibo, fingo-finxi-fictum
conceive in Spanish is concebir
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
