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{
"term": "conceive",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "conceive",
"heSheIt": "conceives"
},
"pastSimple": "conceived",
"pastParticiple": "conceived",
"ingForm": "conceiving"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to form an idea, a plan, etc. in your mind",
"sensetop": "conceive something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He conceived the idea of transforming the old power station into an arts centre."
},
{
"text": "The dam project was originally conceived in 1997."
},
{
"text": "They conceived a theory and stuck to it."
},
{
"text": "The course is very broadly conceived."
},
{
"text": "The plan was brilliantly conceived."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["brilliantly", "carefully", "well"],
"verb + conceive": ["cannot", "be difficult to", "be impossible to"],
"preposition": ["of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to imagine something",
"sensetop": "conceive of somebody/something (as something)conceive (that)…conceive what/how, etc…",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "God is often conceived of as male.",
"contextForm": "conceive of somebody/something (as something)"
},
{
"text": "I cannot conceive *(= I do not believe)* (that) he would wish to harm us.",
"contextForm": "conceive (that)…"
},
{
"text": "I cannot conceive what it must be like.",
"contextForm": "conceive what/how, etc…"
},
{
"text": "It is difficult to conceive of a society without money."
},
{
"text": "I cannot conceive why you paid out so much money."
},
{
"text": "We conceive of ourselves as individuals."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "when a woman conceives or conceives a child, she becomes pregnant",
"sensetop": "conceive somebody",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She is unable to conceive."
},
{
"text": "Their first child was conceived on their wedding night.",
"contextForm": "conceive somebody"
},
{
"text": "She was unable to conceive a child naturally and was offered fertility treatment."
}
],
"topics": ["Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["naturally", "immaculately"],
"verb + conceive": ["be able to", "be unable to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈsiːv/",
"audio": "xc/conceive/xconceive__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈsiːvz/",
"audio": "xc/conceive/xconceives__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈsiːvd/",
"audio": "xc/conceive/xconceived__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈsiːvɪŋ/",
"audio": "xc/conceive/xconceiving__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈsiːv/",
"audio": "xc/conceive/xconceive__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈsiːvz/",
"audio": "xc/conceive/xconceives__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈsiːvd/",
"audio": "xc/conceive/xconceived__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈsiːvɪŋ/",
"audio": "xc/conceive/xconceiving__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French concevoir, from Latin concipere, from com- ‘together’ + capere ‘take’."
}