Definitions for conceive of
con·ceive of

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1. imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisageverb

   form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

   "Can you conceive of him as the president?"

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1. conceive of

   To "conceive of" something generally means to form or develop an idea, plan, or concept in one's mind. It refers to being capable of imagining or understanding something.

Matched Categories

1. • Create By Mental Act

How to pronounce conceive of?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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How to say conceive of in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of conceive of in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of conceive of in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of conceive of in a Sentence

1. Anthony Trollope:

   As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

2. Martin Dempsey:

   But I could conceive of one potentially somewhere in the corridor that runs from Baghdad to Tikrit to Kirkuk and over into Mosul. So we're looking at that area.

3. Seth Shostak:

   The universe is three times as old as the earth. There's plenty of time for societies to arise that are not just a thousand years more advanced than we are, but they could be a billion years more advanced than we are, so if you ask yourself, ‘What could that kind of a society do?’ There are things they could do that we simply can't conceive of.

4. Steven Feldstein:

   These companies, particularly Apple, are really interesting because they have a lot more to lose, particularly given the amount of hardware that they sell in terms of iPhones as well as their manufacturing, i don't know exactly where they're going to end up... short of a lot of public pressure, it's easy to conceive of a scenario where they try to also muddle their way through.

5. Adam Brumm:

   The images of therianthropes may also represent the earliest evidence for our capacity to conceive of things that do not exist in the natural world, a basic concept that underpins modern religion, therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society, and they are perceived as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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