CONCEPTUALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conceptualize mean? 

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

1. have the idea for

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEPTUALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they conceptualize    ... he / she / it conceptualizes   
Past simple: conceptualized   
Past participle: conceptualized   
-ing form: conceptualizing   

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 "conceptualize" 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 "conceptualize"):

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 conceptualize his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

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

conceptual (being or characterized by concepts or their formation)

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

conceptualization (an elaborated concept)

 Context examples 

Using modal effective mass theory, the team conceptualized the dinosaur's body as a series of springs and other components, first as a computer model and then as a physical robot.

(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)