What's the difference between consider and contemplate?

Consider


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
  • (v. t.) To look at attentively; to observe; to examine.
  • (v. t.) To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
  • (v. t.) To estimate; to think; to regard; to view.
  • (v. i.) To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
  • (v. i.) To hesitate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-Leu 7 could not be considered as a specific marker for oligodendroglioma.
  • (2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
  • (3) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (4) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (5) Structural peculiarities in tubulin polymorphism are considered.
  • (6) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (7) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (8) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (9) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (10) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
  • (11) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
  • (12) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
  • (13) A re-examination of the literature indicates that many phagocytes previously unidentified or considered to be microglial cells are probably beta astrocytes.
  • (14) Implications of the theory for hypothesis testing, theory construction, and scales of measurement are considered.
  • (15) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
  • (16) BPH patients may be considered as "endocrinologically younger" than healthy subjects.
  • (17) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
  • (18) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
  • (19) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (20) HDAra-C in combination with anthracyclines is now considered to be a treatment which may afford some hope of a cure in a certain percentage of cases of adult acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.

Contemplate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.
  • (v. t.) To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
  • (v. i.) To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (2) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
  • (3) The algorithms involved are simple and a microprocessor-based automatic PCG analysis system using the proposed technique is being contemplated.
  • (4) It should also be contemplated, as an alternative to elective cesarean section for a transverse lie or breech presentation of the second fetus.
  • (5) It won’t happen suddenly, but the most likely outcome for European social democracy is the one being secretly contemplated on the Labour backbenches: a fusion with liberalised conservatism.
  • (6) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
  • (7) The EU could not contemplate Turkey joining at some point in the future with free movement in its current form.
  • (8) Women with hereditary telangiectasia contemplating pregnancy should be screened for the presence of PAVM to anticipate complications.
  • (9) More than once, I have seen him stop in front of a slide with a graph on it, and become so engaged in contemplation of a particular data point that he grew oblivious of the audience.
  • (10) That is an awkward, indeed risky, time to be contemplating takeoff.
  • (11) Any action to restrict travel would force The Trump Organisation to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom.
  • (12) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (13) Adult subjects (N = 866) were classified into five stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, action, maintenance, and relapse.
  • (14) Surgical treatment was carried out without the aid of cardiopulmonary by-pass, although this had been contemplated.
  • (15) As Johanna Konta contemplates the next stage of her wide-reaching tennis journey and a possible place in the fourth round of the US Open, she recalls in a quiet moment how it all started, and how she might never have played the game at all but for the fact there were tennis courts next to her school.
  • (16) I was left to contemplate my crime: I had not applied for permission (which I knew I would be refused) to visit this village.
  • (17) Lillian, a pensioner who has lived in Enschede most of her life, was also contemplating a vote for the SP.
  • (18) Meanwhile defence minister David Johnston says the intelligence cooperation between the Five Eyes partners – the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada – has achieved too much to “ even contemplate a backward step ”.
  • (19) An interesting contribution to the debate about the rules the intelligence services might use was made by the former head of GCHQ, Sir David Omand , who recently drafted a checklist of criteria that anyone in his former trade contemplating invasions of privacy should ask themselves.
  • (20) The association of a heart defect with ventricular hypertrophy, or the coexistence of several associated accessory pathways prevents such correlation and makes it imperative to carry out intracavitary investigation and epicardial mapping to localise the accessory pathway if surgery is contemplated.