Synonym: concept, construct, creation, design, excogitation, innovation, invention. Similar words: concept, reception, perception, exception, concentration, consumption, deceptive, acceptance. Meaning: [kən'sepʃn] n. 1. an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances 2. the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon 3. the event that occurred at the beginning of something 4. the creation of something in the mind.
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61. Their original conception involved a great railway station in one of the most important sites in the capital.
62. Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable.
63. But there has also been a wider questioning of the whole conception of a transition to socialism.
64. Quite clearly the conception of the company explicitly adopted by the legal model is the contractual one.
65. So much for the doctrine that life begins at conception.
66. The reference here to distrust of the judiciary once again accentuates Dicey's adoption of the ancient conception of the rule of law.
67. Apart from their conceit, these diverse yet inter-dependent groupings share a statist conception of antiracism.
68. Thus, up to age twenty-one, men were charged with the responsibility to prevent conception.
69. And in historical terms, many societies have no conception of a distinct political order.
70. This point had become confused and lost in the over-socialized conception of man which had developed in modern sociology.
71. Rather, the focus on shareholder interests results from a private conception of the company and company law.
72. Alice herself was deaf and dumb until - she claims - she saw a vision of the Immaculate Conception.
73. And, indeed, his theory is firmly rooted in his conception of equilibrium.
74. This has moulded a dominant conception of what social research should be.
75. With the volume level edged up to the danger zone, Rattle's conception clicks into place.
76. A good arrangement should sound as though it were an original conception, and not an arrangement at all.
77. The female adopts a more passive role in conception than the male, and physiologically she has less to do.
78. At the level of legal reasoning these developments can not be accommodated within the traditional contractual conception of the company.
79. In rabbinic canon law, the rabbi explained, human life does not simply begin at conception.
80. A scientific conception seems demeaning because nothing is eventually left for which autonomous man can take credit.
81. Theories of motivation A number of theories are built upon some conception of human nature.
82. They construct it in the sense of developing a conception of the real as being the refractory limit of their own actions.
83. The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart.
84. The reader's conception of the text in this case is the worst possible communicative situation.
85. Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception[sentence dictionary], birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation. Wayne Dyer
86. Education is part of the developmental process in which families are engaged from the date of conception of a child.
87. For in fact, Co-operation does not fit comfortably into the Webbs' conception of Socialism.
88. The conception about reacting mechanically to events is not a purely materialistic one, as it may seem at first sight.
89. He himself had aspired with eminent success: the conception was a self-educator's dream.
90. Until you have known it you will have no conception of what it is to be truly lonely.
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