Father vs Conceive - What's the difference?

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Father is a related term of conceive.

As a proper noun father

is (christianity) god, the father of creation.

As a verb conceive is

to develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.

father

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Noun

(en noun)

A (generally human) male who begets a child.

* Bible, Proverbs x. 1

A wise son maketh a glad father .

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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

* Bible, 1 Kings ii. 10

David slept with his fathers .

* Bible, Rom. iv. 16

Abraham, who is the father of us all

* Shakespeare

Bless you, good father friar!

A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

* Bible, Job xxix. 16

I was a father to the poor.

* Bible, Genesis xiv. 8

He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.

The founder of a discipline or science.

A senator of Ancient Rome.

Synonyms

* (parent) See also

Antonyms

* (with regards to gender) mother * (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child

Hypernyms

* (a male parent) parent

Derived terms

* Father Christmas * Father of Lies * Father Time * Father's Day * fatherhood * father-in-law * fatherland * fatherless * fatherliness * fatherly * forefather * godfather * God the Father * grandfather * great-grandfather * Heavenly Father * how's your father * * stepfather

Verb

(en verb)

To be a father to; to sire.

* 1592 , v 4

Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.

(figuratively) To give rise to.

* 1610 — ii 2

Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.

To act as a father; to support and nurture.

* 1610 — iv 2

Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.

To provide with a father.

* Shakespeare

Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded?

To adopt as one's own.

* Jonathan Swift

Men of wit / Often fathered what he writ.

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conceive

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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.

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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.

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