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concevoir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • conceive verb To become pregnant.
  • design noun A plan showing how something should look, function, or be built.
  • devise verb To work out or invent a plan, method, or system through careful thought.
  • engender verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  • intend verb To have a plan or purpose in mind to do something.

Senses

concevoir is used for these senses in English:

  • conceive (ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).
  • conceive (transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
  • design (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
  • devise (transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
  • intend (ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

conceive — full definition

  1. verb To become pregnant.
  2. verb To form an idea or plan in one's mind; to imagine or devise.

design — full definition

  1. noun A plan showing how something should look, function, or be built.
  2. verb To plan and work out the details of something before it is made.
  3. noun A decorative pattern.

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