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How to pronounce conception in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms creation
Type of beginning
Has types fertilization, fecundation, impregnation, fertilisation
Type Words
Synonyms design, excogitation, innovation, invention
Type of creativity, creative thinking, creativeness
Has types contrivance, concoction
Derivation conceive
Type Words
Synonyms concept, construct
Type of thought, idea
Has types attribute, category, conceptualisation, conceptuality, conceptualization, regulation, abstraction, lexicalized concept, linguistic rule, natural law, notion, part, possibility, property, quantity, abstract, rule, section, theory, whole, dimension, division, fact, hypothesis, law, law of nature
Derivation conceptional
Type Words
Type of sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, sex
Derivation conceive

Examples of conception

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Mom must make conscious diet and lifestyle choices during the conception period.
From the cnn.com
The newly discovered red giant star S1020549 dominates this artist's conception.
From the sciencedaily.com
In this artist's conception, the reborn star is shown with a hypothetical world.
From the sciencedaily.com
This conception of the portrait as an animated moment of life was radically new.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Your conception is fundamentally flawed, imperfect, inconsequential, incomplete.
From the newscientist.com
It's seamless and consistent, carrying us from conception through natural death.
From the bostonherald.com
It was a year when matters of conception and mortality were the stuff of comedy.
From the philly.com
When nature does not permit conception, it is desirable to try to outwit nature.
From the time.com
Abortion opponents say life starts at conception and liken abortion to genocide.
From the voanews.com
More examples
  • Concept: an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
  • The act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon
  • Creation: the event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure"
  • Invention: the creation of something in the mind
  • (conceptive) capable of conceiving
  • Conception is a compilation album issued in 1951 as PRLP 7013, featuring Miles Davis on a number of tracks. The album features other notable musicians such as Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Zoot Sims. All the pieces were recorded at the famous Van Gelder Studio. ...
  • Conception is a power/progressive metal band from Raufoss, Norway.
  • Fertilisation (also known as conception, fecundation and syngamy), is the fusion of gametes to produce a new organism. In animals, the process involves the fusion of an ovum with a sperm, which eventually leads to the development of an embryo. ...
  • A concept is a generalization or abstraction from experience or the result of a transformation of existing ideas. The concept is instantiated (reified) by all of its actual or potential instances, whether these are things in the real world or other ideas. Concepts are treated in many if not most disciplines both explicitly, such as in psychology, philosophy, etc...