CONCEPTUALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conceptualise mean? 

• CONCEPTUALISE (verb)
  The verb CONCEPTUALISE has 1 sense:

1. have the idea for

  Familiarity information: CONCEPTUALISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEPTUALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they conceptualise    ... he / she / it conceptualises   
Past simple: conceptualised   
Past participle: conceptualised   
-ing form: conceptualising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have the idea for

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

conceive; conceptualise; conceptualize; gestate

Context example:

This library was well conceived

Hypernyms (to "conceptualise" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conceptualise"):

design (conceive or fashion in the mind; invent)

preconceive (conceive beforehand)

discover; find (make a discovery, make a new finding)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Did he conceptualise his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

concept (an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances)

conceptualisation (inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally)

conceptualisation (an elaborated concept)