transcription, транскрипция: [ kɒntəmpleɪt ]
( contemplates, contemplating, contemplated)
1.
If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor...
She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.
= consider
VERB : V n / -ing , V n / -ing
2.
If you contemplate an idea or subject, you think about it carefully for a long time.
As he lay in his hospital bed that night, he cried as he contemplated his future...
VERB : V n
• con‧tem‧pla‧tion
It is a place of quiet contemplation.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you contemplate something or someone, you look at them for a long time.
He contemplated his hands, still frowning.
VERB : V n
• con‧tem‧pla‧tion
He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape for a while.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N of n