Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb British same as
conceptualize .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
interpret a phenomenon by forming aconcept - verb To
conceive theidea for something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb have the idea for
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Examples
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I can ‘conceptualise’ awesome article and ideas [for work].
100-odd not-so-odd things I LOVE about myself « Digital immigrant 2010
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Thanks for raising this topic, I think if these things are taken seriously they have huge implications for the way in which we prepare teachers for the classroom and how we conceptualise and write lesson plans.
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Just going through an experience is only half the story, if you like, providing us with raw materials that are blunt and often bewildering unless we can take a step back and conceptualise what went on.
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(AT 84) Instead of merely being quaint and anachronistic technologies harnessed to an anodyne future, we can re-conceptualise and re-pathologise space vehicles.
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Ultimately, if we conceptualise the surface of prose as a "finish", we may well conceptualise the syntactic and lexical patterns that distinguish it as a largely decorative and superficial "patina".
Archive 2008-06-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Ultimately, if we conceptualise the surface of prose as a "finish", we may well conceptualise the syntactic and lexical patterns that distinguish it as a largely decorative and superficial "patina".
Translation and Style Hal Duncan 2008
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In George Orwell's novel '1984' Big Brother knows that the 'proles' will very soon no longer be able to conceptualise abstract ideals like liberty, free speech and human rights.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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How to conceptualise it, however, is another problem.
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The Chinese Buddhists for example were able to conceptualise a Godhead, that contained with it three entities, all sharing the exact same substance, none afore or after the other, none greater or lesser than the other etc, just as articulated in the Creeds of Christendom!
Ecce Recensus: The Only True God Persuades A Skeptic James F. McGrath 2009
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Only the mind of an extremist could conceptualise a continuum that moves beyond "extremeist" and then come upon "Socialist".
McCain: Obama Is An Extremist, "I Don't Know" If He's A Socialist 2009
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