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Conceive vs Infant - What's the difference?

conceive | infant |

As verbs the difference between conceive and infant

is that conceive is to develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate while infant is (obsolete) to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.

As a noun infant is

a very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.

conceive

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

(conceiv)
  • To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
  • * 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4
    • We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
  • * Gibbon
    • 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.
  • *
    • , 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
    • I conceive you.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
  • (senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
  • * Bible, Luke i. 36
    • She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

    Related terms

    * conceivable * conceiver * concept * conception

    External links

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    infant

    English

    (wikipedia infant)

    Alternative forms

    * infaunt (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
  • (legal) A minor.
  • (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
    • Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

    Related terms

    * infanticide * infantile

    See also

    * sudden infant death syndrome * newborn * neonate

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
  • * Milton
    • This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is infanted out of the same fears.
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