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
- verb To become pregnant.
- verb To form an idea or plan in one's mind; to imagine or devise.
design — full definition
- noun A plan showing how something should look, function, or be built.
- verb To plan and work out the details of something before it is made.
- noun A decorative pattern.