(v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
(v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
(v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.
(v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
(v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
(v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unable to provide valid identification, he was apprehended under the SB1070 law.
(2) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(3) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
(4) The GGT activities of the repeating offenders indicated that the percentage of heavy drinkers in this group was approximately the same as in the total population of apprehended drunken drivers.
(5) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
(6) The method is easy to apprehend and has a low complication rate.
(7) The National Institute of Forensic Toxicology, Oslo, receives blood and urine samples from all Norwegian drivers apprehended on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
(8) The prime minister’s comments suggest the government is prepared to consider appointing a replacement if Heydon accepts requests from unions to recuse himself on the grounds of apprehended bias.
(9) If Gleeson could be the guest speaker, how then could it be described as a “Liberal party event?” Even if it was a party occasion, the commissioner asks: “how does that demonstrate that the speaker has an affinity with a partiality for or a persuasion or allegiance or alignment to the Liberal party or lent it support?” If the fair minded lay observer (FMLO), who in this instance is the judge of apprehended bias, had an idea of Heydon’s record on the high court they might get a whiff of partiality to a particular world view, or philosophy.
(10) • 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the border in 2014, and between 1,300 and 1,500 have been repatriated so far.
(11) The ACTU, in its submission to the commission, cited a precedent from a previous case that “a judge is disqualified if a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that the judge might not bring an impartial mind to the resolution of the question the judge is required to decide”.
(12) The proper way for dealing with any question of bias, including apprehended bias, is to make an application for the commissioner to recuse himself, and for the commissioner to consider and rule on the application.” The clerk of the Senate, Rosemary Laing, has provided advice to Wong about the upper house’s power to address the governor general.
(13) The London mayor, who has previously stated that anyone who swears at police should be apprehended, said an officer's decision to warn Mitchell was correct.
(14) It is exemplified for me most admirably in Goethe's interest in Islam generally, and the 14th-century Persian Sufi poet Hafiz in particular, a consuming passion which led to the composition of the West-östlicher Diwan, and it inflected Goethe's later ideas about Weltliteratur, the study of all the literatures of the world as a symphonic whole which could be apprehended theoretically as having preserved the individuality of each work without losing sight of the whole.
(15) The former high court judge rejected submissions from unions that his agreement to deliver the Sir Garfield Barwick address met the legal test of apprehended bias.
(16) You downplay the fact that 97 people implicated in the case have been apprehended, proving that these tragic events have been met with decisive action.
(17) With numbers of unaccompanied children and families apprehended at the south-west border on the rise again, sparking worries of a major influx of the kind seen in the summer of 2014 that overwhelmed facilities andthe legal system , the government is hoping the raids will act as a deterrent.
(18) In NSW, police now have the power to provide more immediate protection to victims via police-issued apprehended domestic violence orders.
(19) The Washington Post revealed on Tuesday that Omar Gonzalez, a military veteran armed with a knife, who scaled the White House fence in September, was not apprehended until he had run through the main hall , past the staircase that leads to the president’s private quarters and all the way through the East Room.
(20) This article is a review of Swedish and international literature concerning children apprehended for drunkenness.
Conceive
Definition:
(v. t.) To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
(v. t.) To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
(v. t.) To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
(v. i.) To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
(v. i.) To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(2) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
(3) The nature of the cystatin C-immunoreactive substance in some of these vascular lesions is uncertain, but it might conceivably play an additional important role in the pathogenesis of brain hemorrhage in these cases.
(4) It is conceivable that this overall enhancement of the immune response induced by beta-IFN could contribute to reduce HTLV-I infection in vitro.
(5) The vertebrate body may be thus conceived as composed of 2 growth types, viz., the neural-extensive and the cellular-divisional (mitotic).
(6) "You wouldn't conceive such random movements could produce such metronomic sounds: you get this der-der-der-der-der-errrr, der-der-der-der-der-errrr.
(7) It is conceivable that the retroviral sequence contains an intragenic enhancer which is also functional in the anti-sense orientation.
(8) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(9) The decreased Vmax observed in platelets from hypertensive patients and reproduced by ouabain inhibition could conceivably be linked to the presence of a circulating ouabain-like factor in hypertension.
(10) It is conceivable that pristane could play a role in the development of certain malignancies in higher mammals since it is commonly found in the diet.
(11) With the rapidly mounting cost of medical care in hospitals, physicians must seek alternative forms of therapy for illnesses that could conceivably be treated by less confining methods.
(12) The first reason is that our culture has difficulty in conceiving of women as autonomous human beings with needs and desires that don't relate to men.
(13) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
(14) The receptors activated by muscimol (GABA-A) are clearly not the same as the ones activated by baclofen (conceivably GABA-B).
(15) It is conceivable that the lymphatic dilatation of the small intestine in Behçet's disease may be related to increased flow of lymph due to excessive vascular hyperpermeability and may not be related to a block of lymphatic system which has been considered to be a cause of enteric protein loss in intestinal lymphangiectasia.
(16) It is conceivable that, in the future, antibiotic therapy will have to be combined with antiphlogistic agents.
(17) Fewer multiparous cows given two injections 14 d apart and inseminated after estrus conceived than did cows given two injections and a progesterone intravaginal coil inserted 8 d after the first injection (42 vs. 66%).
(18) The almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States is unlike anything that could have been conceived in 1979 [...] I cannot imagine a more "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary invasion" than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.
(19) The transplantation of a reduced liver was conceived to circumvent this problem.
(20) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.