conception

Definition:
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.

Use 'conception' in a sentence:

1. These are problems that must be overcome by the artist because they tend to intrude upon his or her conception of the work.
2. Different people have different conceptions.
3. My conception of a garden was based on gardens I had visited in England.
4. The legal conceptions of archaic age of the Greeks are known to us through the epic works of Homer and the poetry of hesiod.
5. The converse is, of course, the larger conception.
6. It is the latest trend in baby pictures-an image on the day of conception.
7. "The conception that everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential is a highly democratic and compassionate standard," says Marven Breselor, a professor at Princeton University.
8. This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn't be more out of date or at odds with the feverish world described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline's three-year indictment of "fast fashion".
9. This is a very specific conception of comparativist social explanation.
10. Six weeks after conception, your baby is the size of your little fingernail.
11. The plan is very imaginative in conception.
12. A good novelist needs great power of conception.
13. However, this entire conception is scientifically inaccurate.
14. Can they preserve their static conception of their societies?
15. Marconi's conception of the radio was as a substitute for the telephone, a tool for private conversation.
16. Six weeks after conception your baby is the size of your little fingernail.
17. New Conception, New Beginning, New Height, New Image.
18. Comes from defenders of a meritocratic conception.
19. The other factors may be timing of conception.
20. The sports value conception system is an open system.
21. The symphony is admirable in conception.
22. Conception of God, Haiti, June 2011.
23. Just like drones before them, miniature satellites are beginning to fundamentally transform our conceptions of who gets to do what up above our heads.
24. She believed that this was the correct conception of the matter.
25. I see him as someone with not the slightest conception of teamwork.
26. People from different cultures have different conceptions of the world.
27. This entire conception is scientifically inaccurate.
28. He's got a pretty strange conception of friendship.
29. The private collector is said to have paid a furniture restorer 1200 euros to carry out work on the copy of "The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables" by the baroque artist Bartolom é Esteban Murillo.
30. The conception that everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential is a highly democratic and compassionate standard, says Marven Breselor, a professor at Princeton University.
31. I have some conception of what life was like in those days.
32. He has no conception of how difficult life is if you're unemployed.
33. Construction Project Quality Office Development Conception in China.
34. My proposal to his conception is to use a huge lighting wall.
35. Data riddling on reconstruction of NURBS sur-faces in reverse engineering is a generalized conception.
36. She is pleased with conception of a child.
37. The picture has a vivacious artistic conception.
38. For W. V. O. Quine, however, this constitutes an overly "narrow" conception of empiricism.
39. Bringing Enterprise's Conception to Advance University's Teaching Management Reform.
40. School-based research on the development of students: conception and practice.
41. Conception occurs when a single sperm fuses with an egg.
42. Artist's conception of one of the crocodiles, which had a soft, dog-like nose and was an agile galloper.
43. From the standpoint of the meritocratic conception.
44. This further increases the likelihood of conception.
45. Teenage conceptions have risen steadily in the last ten years.
46. DNA was extracted from fetuses at mid-gestation, about 10 days past conception. DNA.
47. Kreutzer opined that, set beside Alkan's conception, Joseph Haydn's "Creation" was a "mere candle (" lampion ").
48. But the following may help to visualize one conception.
49. The conception of the book took five minutes, but writing it took a year.
50. Numerical packaging conception based medicine information communication network interface design.
51. The most distinctive attribute of this tradition is the mechanistic, materialistic conception of humanity.
52. The plan was brilliant in its conception but failed because of lack of money.
53. It is a testimony to Roth's talent that he could not quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as his original conception for his novel Everyman seemed to demand.
54. The other fundamental consideration in the conception of a plan is function.
55. For about six or seven weeks after conception, there is no differentiation between male and female.