Conceive vs Derive - What's the difference?
conceive | derive |
To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
* 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4
* Gibbon
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
To understand (someone).
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Jonathan Swift
(senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
* Bible, Luke i. 36
To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
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, title= (logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
(linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
(chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
To originate or stem (from).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
* (and other bibliographic details) Holland
As verbs the difference between conceive and derive
is that conceive is to develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate while derive is .As a noun derive is
drift.conceive
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(conceiv)- We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
- It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
- I conceive you.
- You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
- She hath also conceived a son in her old age.
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* *derive
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Verb
(deriv)Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
How to Be Manipulative, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
- For fear it [water] choke up the pitsthey [the workman] derive it by other drains.