Consider vs Nature - What's the difference?
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(label) To think about seriously.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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, title= (label) To think of doing.
(label) To assign some quality to.
* (1800-1859)
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, chapter=Foreword (label) To look at attentively.
* Bible, (w) xxxi. 16
(label) To take up as an example.
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, title= To debate or dispose of a motion.
To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1628–1699)
(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
* (1800-1859)
*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
*1869 , , :
*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
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, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kind, sort; character; quality.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my days of nature
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Oppressed nature sleeps.
(lb) Natural affection or reverence.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
As a verb consider
is (label) to think about seriously.As a proper noun nature is
the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.consider
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Alternative forms
* considre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible.
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- Considered as plays, his works are absurd.
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- She considereth a field, and buyeth it.
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- Consider , sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.
- England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.
Usage notes
* In sense 2, this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See .Synonyms
* (think about seriously) bethink, reflect on * (think of doing) think of, bethink * (assign a quality) deem, regard, think of; see also * (look at closely) regard, observe * (debate a motion) deliberate, bethink * (include in an estimate or plan) take into accountnature
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Alternative forms
* natuer (obsolete)Noun
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