transcription, транскрипция: [ kən-ˈsēv ]
verb
( con·ceived ; con·ceiv·ing )
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French conceivre, from Latin concipere to take in, conceive, from com- + capere to take — more at heave
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1.
a. : to become pregnant with (young)
conceive a child
b. : to cause to begin : originate
a project conceived by the company's founder
2.
a. : to take into one's mind
conceive a prejudice
b. : to form a conception of : imagine
a badly conceived design
3. : to apprehend by reason or imagination : understand
unable to conceive his reasons
4. : to have as an opinion
I cannot conceive that he acted alone
intransitive verb
1. : to become pregnant
2. : to have a conception — usually used with of
conceive s of death as emptiness
Synonyms: see think
• con·ceiv·er noun