Conception vs. Procreate

Conceptionnoun

The act of conceiving.

Procreateverb

(transitive) To beget or conceive (offspring).

Conceptionnoun

The state of being conceived; the beginning.

Procreateverb

(transitive) To originate, create or produce something.

Conceptionnoun

The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.

Procreateverb

(intransitive) To reproduce.

Conceptionnoun

The start of pregnancy.

Procreateverb

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

Conceptionnoun

The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.

Procreateverb

have offspring or young;

‘The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly’; ‘The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be’;

Conceptionnoun

The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.

Conceptionnoun

An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.

Conceptionnoun

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

‘I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.’;

Conceptionnoun

The state of being conceived; beginning.

‘Joy had the like conception in our eyes.’;

Conceptionnoun

The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.

‘Under the article of conception, I shall confine myself to that faculty whose province it is to enable us to form a notion of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived.’;

Conceptionnoun

The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.

‘Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all.’;

Conceptionnoun

The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.

‘He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies.’;

Conceptionnoun

Idea; purpose; design.

‘Note this dangerous conception.’;

Conceptionnoun

Conceit; affected sentiment or thought.

‘He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticism.’;

Conceptionnoun

an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

Conceptionnoun

the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

Conceptionnoun

the event that occurred at the beginning of something;

‘from its creation the plan was doomed to failure’;

Conceptionnoun

the creation of something in the mind

Conceptionnoun

the action of conceiving a child or of one being conceived

‘an unfertilized egg before conception’; ‘a rise in premarital conceptions’;

Conceptionnoun

the forming or devising of a plan or idea

‘the time between a product's conception and its launch’;

Conceptionnoun

the way in which something is perceived or regarded

‘our conception of how language relates to reality’;

Conceptionnoun

an abstract idea; a concept

‘the conception of a balance of power’;

Conceptionnoun

a plan or intention

‘reconstructing Bach's original conceptions’;

Conceptionnoun

ability to imagine; understanding

‘he had no conception of politics’;