(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.
Inconceivable
Definition:
(a.) Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
(2) If these workers inhaled a carcinogenic substance partly excreted in the urine, an increased incidence of respiratory and bladder cancers would not be inconceivable.
(3) It is not necessarily inconceivable for the issue to be back on the table at some later stage and even to win some form of Commons backing.
(4) It was "inconceivable" that one rotten apple was at the heart of it all.
(5) Since IAPP is co-secreted with insulin, it is not inconceivable, that in the freely fed mouse, IAPP may act to amplify the blood glucose lowering effect of insulin through a direct suppression of glucagon secretion via the islet microcirculation.
(6) The ministry of labour told Human Rights Watch in 2012 that it was "inconceivable" that forced labour existed in Qatar, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.
(7) With regard to drugs, intensive care medicine confronts the surgeon with an inconceivable complex of interactions, side effects and dose adaptations.
(8) Listening to Fleet Foxes, it seemed inconceivable that anyone had ever mocked the acoustic and the bucolic.
(9) "I think it would now be inconceivable for the government to back down after promising so much only a couple of months ago."
(10) According to the diagnosis of preoedipal disturbances it should be worked out, that the test-results are not inconceivable formality and uncomprehension.
(11) 2008: Lord Bruce-Lockhart, chair of English Heritage, says "it is inconceivable that the inadequacies of the site should be allowed to continue any longer".
(12) The Labour leader has a catalogue of reasons why he thinks it inconceivable that the Tories will turn out to be the largest party in 2015, including organisation, psephology, his principles and the fact that he believes the country's values are social democratic.
(13) "It is inconceivable how, from $100m of revenue that just changes classification, you could possibly have a writedown as big as $5bn," Lynch said.
(14) It is inconceivable that parliament would have agreed to deprive the Chagossians of this fundamental birthright."
(15) Israel insists Hamas must disarm, which officials from the Palestinian group said on Thursday was "inconceivable".
(16) The Lib Dems have swallowed just about every dose of Tory poison – swingeing cuts, the VAT hike, trebling tuition fees, privatising the NHS, and so on – so it wasn't inconceivable they'd back this too.
(17) My more rough-and-ready, high-energy stuff would have been totally inconceivable for The Piano , so Jane forced me to do other things.
(18) Although the models are hypothetic, they do not contain biochemically inconceivable steps.
(19) England will be favourites, we play them last so we do think we will have a good chance of getting out of the group.” For Northern Ireland – drawn with world champions Germany, Ukraine and Poland – progress will also be tough but not inconceivable.
(20) He told reporters it was "inconceivable" that the UN would remain silent while the situation in Syria worsened, and it was " a question of days, maybe hours " before the council voted on the draft resolution.