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conceive
Verb
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If you can conceive of a certain situation, you can imagine it.
I just can't conceive of life without you.
Can you conceive what life would have been like in that time?
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Someone conceives of an idea when they think of the idea for the first time, and it's their idea: they thought of it themselves, no one told them.
The planners first conceived of the idea of making a large, curved building here in 1998.
I can't conceive of any way of getting there before 5:00.
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A woman (or a man and a woman?) conceives a baby when she becomes pregnant (starts to carry a tiny baby inside her).
The baby was conceived the day we went to Niagara Falls.
as
Preposition
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A word that is used to compare two things that are equal.
As you know, we need more workers.
I baked the cake as my mother used to.
The room looks just as it did when I was a child.
The speech, as he remembered it, was very powerful.
Interesting as it seems, I don't think I'll get it.
He was as big as a mountain.
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A word that is used to show that two things happened at the same time.
Just as I went out, it started to rain.
We sleep as the world turns in darkness.
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A word that is used to show why something happens.
As I couldn't understand French, I didn't watch the film.
as
Adverb
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A word that is used to compare two things that are equal. (Used before adjectives)
You are younger than I am, but nearly as tall.
This is not as good as it was last time.