单词 | conceptualize |
释义 | conceptualizev. 1. transitive. To form a concept or idea of (something); to represent with concepts. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > conceive, form in the mind [verb (transitive)] readOE thinkOE bethinkc1175 makea1400 imaginec1400 conceive?a1425 suppose1586 conceit1591 ideate1610 braina1616 forma1616 engross1632 cogitate1856 conceptualize1873 1873 Fraser's Mag. July 11/1 Every element of knowledge, even the simplest impression of the senses, has been so completely conceptualised, that it is almost impossible for us to imagine intuitional without conceptual knowledge. 1899 Bk Buyer May 319/2 The phenomena which arrange themselves in our mind, and the categories which serve to conceptualize them, are nothing but forms. 1927 Brit. Weekly 3 Feb. 462/1 Jesus is lost in the attempt to conceptualise Him. 1969 R. E. Palmer Hermeneutics i. 9 A work of literature is not an object we understand by conceptualizing or analyzing it. 2003 N. Fiévé & P. Waley Japanese Capitals in Hist. Perspective 23 He conceptualizes the city in terms that can be readily related to Western ideas. 2. intransitive. To form concepts; to think in terms of concepts. ΚΠ 1903 Science 25 Dec. 831/1 It flatters our ineradicable tendency to formulate, conceptualize and schematize in advance of all exhaustive study of nature's processes. 1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe vi. 253 When we conceptualize, we cut out and fix, and exclude everything but what we have fixed. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. 639/3 Mrs. Moskowitz still struggles to conceptualize; Miss Caravello still upholds the culture of the Latins. 1999 L. E. Lynn Teaching & learning with Cases vi. 55 Some individuals..prefer abstract ideas and have a natural inclination to conceptualize and generalize. Derivatives conˌceptuaˈlizable adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [adjective] > able to be formed into ideas thinkable1786 conceptualizable1948 1944 Rev. Politics 6 393 Why is the content of poetic experience, as such non-conceptualizable, not to be known but to be expressed in a work, to be cast into being?] 1948 Proc. Amer. Catholic Philos. Assoc. 21 91 ‘Mary is baking pies’, when actually asserted, is more than a mere complex of essences. It is: 1) a union of essences; 2) in an act of existing, not conceptualizable. 2009 Sociol. Theory 27 441 The predictable response of an individual..is not conceptualizable within Mead's conceptual framework. conˈceptualizer n. ΚΠ 1945 H. A. Larrabee Reliable Knowl. viii. 260 The universe is more complex, more plastic, and more permeated with change than the conceptualizers of earlier periods dared to suspect. 1964 A. Rapoport in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 100 The conceptualizers..have become entangled in their own thought processes. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Oct. b27/2 She has only recently begun to receive her due as the premier innovator, experimenter and conceptualizer of modernist textiles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1873 |
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