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Detected vs Conceived - What's the difference?

detected | conceived |

As verbs the difference between detected and conceived

is that detected is (detect) while conceived is (conceive).

As an adjective detected

is referring to something that has been noticed.

detected

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Referring to something that has been noticed.
  • The detected submarine was tracked by sonar, it was easy once they knew where to look.

    Antonyms

    * undetected * non-detected

    Verb

    (head)
  • (detect)
  • We detected the submarine long before it observed us.

    conceived

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (conceive)

  • 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.