Conception vs Devise - What's the difference?
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The act of conceiving.
The state of being conceived; the beginning.
The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
The start of pregnancy.
The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
* Bancroft
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To leave (property) in a will.
(archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
* Alexander Pope
(archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
* Bancroft
The real property left in such a will.
As a noun conception
is the act of conceiving.As a verb devise is
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Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* , Genesis 3:16 *: Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception ; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.Coordinate terms
* inceptionAntonyms
* misconceptionSee also
* contraceptionReferences
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(wikipedia devise)Verb
(devis)- to devise''' an argument; to '''devise a machine, or a new system of writing
- devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
- Thus, the task of the linguist devising' a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to '''devise a ''finite'' set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an ''infinite set of well-formed sentences.
- I thought, devised , and Pallas heard my prayer.
- For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise .
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Noun
(en noun)- Fines upon devises were still exacted.