(n.) That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
(n.) Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.
(n.) Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
(n.) A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.
(n.) An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
(n.) Design; pattern.
(v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.
(v. i.) To form an idea; to think.
Example Sentences:
(1) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
(2) Even a successful fiction writer would be unlikely to attempt to pull off an absurd conceit whereby the self-styled “greenest-ever” government hands out subsidies to the most heavily polluting companies just as it prepares to approve a global climate change treaty.
(3) In their new show , the trio Sheeps (which includes recent Foster’s award nominee Liam Williams ) perform the same sketch over and over, for an hour, in a variety of styles – the conceit being that they’re never satisfied it works.
(4) "That's why we developed Call of Duty Elite – the design conceit was, wouldn't it be great if we could unlock the game as a more social experience.
(5) He denies Southcliffe's central conceit is exploitative.
(6) He is far too astute an analyst of comedy to be unaware of the danger of looking smug and there were sufficient layers of irony and knowing jokes within jokes for the conceit to work.
(7) As those familiar with my novels know (especially Ulverton and Hodd ), I've always believed in the modernity of the past, from which our temporal conceit blinkers us.
(8) Then Smith ruins my conceit by grounding to Prince Fielder.
(9) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
(10) If he had been able to cross gorges and rivers without the need for ancient Egyptian conceits or even unadorned iron trusses, I think he would have leaped at the chance.
(11) So, this print version is more in name – a conceit, a promotion – than it is an actual business strategy.
(12) In 2014, RZA told Forbes that the conceit behind the album was in part motivated by a desire to restore a cash value to music in the age of streaming and internet piracy.
(13) It’s a fun conceit.” Just because Baker Street Irregulars members don’t emphasize costumes and cosplay, they still respect their fellow fandoms – there is even a Klingon edition of Sherlock Holmes.
(14) I like the conceit but I don't buy the translation: animals have fur, women wear furs, surely).
(15) Men's concerns, interests, anxieties or even pride in our own gender roles are typically sheltered by the conceits of fiction – as seen in the exquisite 62-hour thesis on modern masculinity that was Breaking Bad – or filtered through protective layers of irony and humour.Social media users recently parodied the internal travails of feminism with the hashtag #MeninistTwitter, but behind the walls of laddish banter and sexism, there were some very real anxieties and resentments on display.
(16) The vox pop – that spurious journalistic conceit – lets reporters seek out quotes to confirm each one's opinions (or for the BBC, just a meaningless one of each).
(17) This is not the first time we have seen arrogance and conceit from Mr Mellor.
(18) "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."
(19) He was the opposite of an egotist, being neither boastful nor conceited, but his professional personality had a streak of the kindly egoist to it.
(20) The conceit was a lie founded on truth, and that four-year hole in his IMDb list, beginning not long after he won a Golden Globe for Walk The Line , is real.
Concent
Definition:
(n.) Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes.
(n.) Consistency; accordance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(2) There are some reports that in early ischemic stage, the concent of free fatty acids increase, while that of phospholipid decrease.
(3) The results obtained made it possible to find some regularities with respect to the cell concent of lymphocytes population in patients with melanoma.
(4) The Porter-Silber technique was used to determine the 17-hydroxycorticosteroid concent of the urine, a physiological measure of stress.
(5) Twenty-four hour urinary excretion rates ranged from 0.6 to 6.5% of the total dose and appeared related to urinary flow and the concentation of 201T1 in blood.
(6) Three of the new alloys studied contain approximately three volume percent gamma2 and should be classified as modified concentional amalgams.
(7) The rate of radiotherapy sequelae has been low, because the patients were treated with the concentional 200 cGy per day or similar fractionation schemes.
(8) The effect of time and temperature of juice storage on the concent of nitrates and nitrites was studied.
(9) The lack of accelerated purine synthesis in mutant cells under these conditions is not fully explained by consideration of PP-ribose-P and purine nucleotide concentations.
(10) A trace quantitative analysis of barbiturates has been carried out in blood, urine, organs and in gastric and intestinal concents.
(11) In male rats on identical treatment no change of pituitary weight, growth hormone and prolactin concent has been found.
(12) Since elevated LDL cholesterol concentations are associated with atherosclerotic disease such models may have important therapeutic applications.
(13) The DNA-concent of cell nuclei of 45 breast cancer cases of various histological structure has been determined cytophotometrically.
(14) Thus, IgG receptors may function in vivo despite the relatively high concentations of IgG in serum and interstitial fluid.
(15) The magnitude of this shift at a given salicylate concent;ation varies with the K concentration.
(16) Perioperative logistics were quite trouble free in all 26 patients, in marked contrast to 5 LMC patients operated upon prior to our preoperative IABP concent; 3 of these deteriorated upon induction, with two deaths resulting.
(17) The enzyme activity depends on the concentation of phosphate ions in the incubation medium.
(18) Data from two forced-choice experiments are reported that support the prediction of concentering and other predictions drawn from the theory.
(19) When these selected highly concentional AlH had been repeatedly tried without success, 3 pregnancies were achieved in 18 women (16.7%).
(20) The relationship between this and the failure to maintain plasma albumin concentations is discussed.