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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived" [syn: gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1878 to form a concept of; especially to interpret conceptually • conceptualization noun • conceptualizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) form a concept or idea of. Derivatives: conceptualization n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(conceptualizes, conceptualizing, conceptualized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'conceptualise' If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind. How we conceptualize things has a lot to do with what we feel... Tiffany conceptualized herself as a mother, whose primary task was to feed her baby. VERB: V n, V n as n

Moby Thesaurus

appreciate, apprehend, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be informed, cerebrate, cogitate, cognize, coin, comprehend, conceit, conceive, concoct, create, discern, dream up, entertain ideas, exercise the mind, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fathom, fictionalize, form ideas, grasp, hatch, have, have information about, have knowledge of, ideate, imagine, intellectualize, invent, ken, know, make out, mold, originate, perceive, possess, prehend, produce, realize, reason, recognize, savvy, see, seize, shape, suppose, think, think up, understand, wot, wot of