different between conception vs diagram

English

Etymology

From Middle English concepcioun, borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin concepti? (“a comprehending, a collection, composition, an expression, also a becoming pregnant”), from concipi?, past participle conceptus (“conceive”); see conceive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?p??n/

Noun

conception (countable and uncountable, plural conceptions)

1. The act of conceiving.
2. The state of being conceived; the beginning.
3. The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
4. The start of pregnancy.
5. The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
6. 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.
7. An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.

Antonyms

• misconception

Coordinate terms

• inception

Related terms

• conceive
• concept

Translations

See also

• contraception

References

• conception in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• conception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• nonectopic

French

Etymology

From Old French conception, concepcion, borrowed from Latin conceptio, conceptionem (“comprehension, understanding”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s?p.sj??/

Noun

conception f (plural conceptions)

1. conception (of a child)
2. conception (beginning, start)
3. ability to understand
4. viewpoint; angle
5. concept, idea

Related terms

• concept
• concevoir

Further reading

• “conception” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• concepcion

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conceptio, conceptionem (“comprehension, understanding”).

Noun

conception f (oblique plural conceptions, nominative singular conception, nominative plural conceptions)

1. conception (of a child)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: concepcioun, concepcion, concepciun, concepcyon, consepcioun
  • English: conception
• French: conception

English

Alternative forms

• diagramme (archaic)

Etymology

From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?da?.?.??æm/, /?da?.??æm/

Noun

diagram (plural diagrams)

1. A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.

   Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.

2. A graph or chart.
3. (category theory) A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".

Synonyms

• (plan or similar to show relationships or similar): schematic

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:diagram

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

diagram (third-person singular simple present diagrams, present participle diagraming or diagramming, simple past and past participle diagramed or diagrammed)

1. (transitive) To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
2. (Britain) To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.

Related terms

• diagrammatic
• diagrammatically

References

• diagram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diagram on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• diagram at OneLook Dictionary Search

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?ja?ram]

Noun

diagram m

1. diagram

Declension

Derived terms

• diagram rybí kosti m
• stavový diagram m

Further reading

• diagram in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• diagram in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

diagram n (singular definite diagrammet, plural indefinite diagrammer)

1. diagram

Declension

References

• “diagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagramme or English diagram, from Latin diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.a???r?m/
• Hyphenation: di?a?gram
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

diagram n (plural diagrammen, diminutive diagrammetje n)

1. diagram

Derived terms

• staafdiagram
• venndiagram

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin diagramma, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dij??r?m]
• Hyphenation: di?ag?ram
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

diagram (plural diagramok)

1. diagram

Declension

References

Further reading

• diagram in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Noun

diagram n (definite singular diagrammet, indefinite plural diagram or diagrammer, definite plural diagramma or diagrammene)

1. diagram

References

• “diagram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (diágramma)

Noun

diagram n (definite singular diagrammet, indefinite plural diagram, definite plural diagramma)

1. diagram

References

• “diagram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dja.?ram/

Noun

diagram m inan

1. diagram

Declension

Swedish

Noun

diagram n

1. a diagram, a graph, a drawing

Declension