conceives
- 1Third-person singular simple present of conceive.
The architect conceives each building as a response to its surroundings.
When a couple conceives later in life, doctors monitor the pregnancy more closely.
Note
One spelling serves two quite different verbs: the bodily one, which works with or without an object, and the mental one, where someone conceives a plan or an idea. The mental side also takes of, as in she conceives of time as a river, and the shift matters. Without of, the object is usually something devised or formed; with of, it is something pictured or understood.
She conceives of time as a river rather than a line.
He rarely conceives of failure as a possibility.
conceives is a form of conceive
conceive, verb: To develop and form an idea, plan, or design in the mind; to imagine it. Full entry
- Forms
- conceiveconceives he/she/itconceiving -ing formconceived past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- conceive → conceives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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