conception

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kənˈsɛpʃən/    美 /kənˈsɛpʃən/|/kənˈsepʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of conceiving. countable,uncountable
  2. The state of being conceived; the beginning. countable,uncountable
  3. The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote. countable,uncountable
    — Some powers diuine, or els infernall, mixt Their angry ſeedes at his conception: For he was neuer ſprong of humaine race, Since with the ſpirit of his fearefull pride, He dares so doubtleſly reſolue of rule.
  4. The start of pregnancy. countable,uncountable
  5. The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo. countable,uncountable
  6. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions. countable,uncountable
    — What the school books say about the united efforts of the two great Rossums is all a fairy tale. They used to have dreadful rows. The old atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters, and the end of it was that young Rossum shut him up in some laboratory or other and let him fritter the time away with his monstrosities, while he himself started on the business from an engineer's point of view.
  7. An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design. countable,uncountable
    — Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
  8. Something conceived or designed. countable,uncountable
    — The figure was placed on a low pedestal, sufficiently raised from the carpet on four plain wooden legs for all the space underneath to be clearly visible. The body was a squat, cross-legged conception, typical of an Indian deity […]

词形变化

conceptions plural

词汇关系

反义词
misconception
衍生词
anticonception artist's conception conceptional Conception Bay conceptionism conceptionist control of conception false conception non-conception nonconception periconception post conception postconception post-conception preconception prevenception products of conception reconception self-conception superconception
相关词
conceive concept contraception
并列词
inception

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
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Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
Latin concipiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin conceptiōlbor.
Old French conceptionbor.
Middle English concepcioun
English conception
From Middle English concepcioun, borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin conceptiō (“a comprehending, a collection, composition, an expression, also a becoming pregnant”), from concipiō, past participle conceptus (“conceive”); see conceive. Equivalent to conceive + -tion.
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