Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way.
- intransitive verb To form concepts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to to form a concept of.
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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Basically, the researchers decided at the end that they just need to "refine developmentally appropriate information with concrete instructions and role-plays" so that even the smallest children 5-7 years old will be able to "conceptualize" sexual abuse and accept that members of their own families might be abusers.
"If you were really savvy, you'd 'manipulate' the media into a stampede of lurid drivel deriding her as a Stepford wife and a dominatrix..." Ann Althouse 2008
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I kind of conceptualize it as being triggering of a shift in attention that is problematic.
You guys have all the right answers StyleyGeek 2008
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The puzzle games challenge you dogs 'ability to conceptualize which is larger, smaller or different.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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An academic, hired by the Defense Department to "conceptualize" the War.
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The puzzle games challenge you dogs 'ability to conceptualize which is larger, smaller or different.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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The puzzle games challenge you dogs 'ability to conceptualize which is larger, smaller or different.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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The puzzle games challenge you dogs 'ability to conceptualize which is larger, smaller or different.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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It's a good thing the place of Humanity in Her Life doesn't depend on people being able to "conceptualize" that …. anymore, for instance, than a Heart has to have a grand scheme of ideological / institutional / electro-mechanical CONstructs in order to fulfill its organic function within a Living body.
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'conceptualize' made sense I would almost certainly have just glossed over it.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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Headlines are filled with companies accused of using shoddy practices for personal gain, so PlayMakers Repertory Company's production of Arthur Miller's "All My ... games is on the roster for the San Francisco Symphony's Summer & the Symphony series, which runs from June 1 to An academic, hired by the Defense Department to" conceptualize "the War.
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