What's the difference between conceive and engender?

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.

Engender


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
  • (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
  • (v. i.) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
  • (v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, engenders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In observing more than 300 clinical interviews, we have seen a high frequency of physician-engendered defects.
  • (2) We have shown that heme, a hydrophobic iron chelate, is rapidly incorporated into endothelial cells where, after as little as 1 h, it markedly aggravates cytotoxicity engendered by polymorphonuclear leukocyte oxidants or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).
  • (3) Previous data have shown that the neurotoxicity engendered by these agents can also be prevented by selective NMDA antagonists.
  • (4) The negative slope of the linear regression lines relating the effects of morphine to control rates of responding engendered under the FI schedule was decreased when morphine was combined with naloxone, but not with d-amphetamine.
  • (5) The author discusses the relationship between patient care and consulting and the rapport that contact between college health service psychiatrists and other college personnel can engender.
  • (6) However, challenges of 10(5) and 10(6) tumor cells overcame immune status engendered by preimmunization with M component.
  • (7) Since successful orthodontic treatment depends upon patient cooperation, it would be useful to assess variables associated with cooperation so that the orthodontist might engender cooperation based on that understanding.
  • (8) The symbolic-interactionist and Scottish moralist orientations both hold that society alone engenders uniquely human qualities, self-arises through sympathetic interaction, and mind and self reconstruct their environments.
  • (9) Carbachol injection engendered the opposite result.
  • (10) They improve cardiac function by decreasing postload, by preventing left ventricular hypertrophy and by decreasing myocardial excitability which engenders dysrhythmias.
  • (11) Differentiating between the effect of primary neurological injury and secondary psychosocial problems is often difficult for clinicians and engenders controversy.
  • (12) Men with nothing but good to say about a player whose career had yielded great honour and engendered enormous affection, disrupted by what seem now, in the light of the reports on Sunday that Speed had killed himself, to be only the most insignificant of disappointments.
  • (13) This paper discusses religious meanings of the hijra role, as well as the ways in which individuals and the community deal with the conflicts engendered by their sexual activity.
  • (14) The fact that the reorganization was successful and the outcomes remarkably similar to model predictions has engendered confidence in the role of modeling in the planning process.
  • (15) She is confronted with a similar situation: the refugee crisis has handed her an opportunity to stamp once and for all a visible and lasting mark on German and international politics – while engendering a potentially lethal storm at the home front.
  • (16) But the predicament is partly engendered by prosperity, too.
  • (17) This is the first demonstration of a metabolic reversal of the cholesterol synthesis inhibition engendered by lovastatin.
  • (18) Furthermore, compared to low Ho men, high Ho men blamed their wives more for their usual disagreements on the high conflict topic and saw their disagreement-engendering behavior as more intentional.
  • (19) Above all it needs to happen soon, before the contagion, and the poisonous distrust it engenders, spread further.
  • (20) Lack of cell wall confers plasticity and may engender the intimate association of mycoplasma and host cell that has been noted.