consider
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
parliamentary-procedure
Etymology: From Middle English consideren, from Middle French considerer, from Latin considerare.
Inflected forms:
form: considers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: considering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: considered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: considered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: considre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To think about seriously.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.
How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?
Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible.
If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
gloss: To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.
gloss: To assign some quality to.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.
I considered the pie undercooked.
I consider you (to be) an excellent friend.
"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.[…]’
Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
gloss: To look at attentively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She sat there for a moment, considering him.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it.
gloss: To take up as an example.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Consider a triangle having three equal sides.
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
gloss: To debate (or dispose of) a motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.
gloss: To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
pos: verb
examples: He never seems to consider the feelings of others.
Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.
February 21, 1679, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer
England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.
gloss: To believe or opine (that).
pos: verb
examples: Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,[…].
What is clear is that the courts in both Alberta and Ontario consider that there must be some preliminary assessment of the evidence of alleged breaches of the relevant Act when considering whether a freeze order is justified at the investigation stage.
Related words: all things considered
considerable
considerate
consideration
considerer
consider it done
reconsider
Derived words: disconsider
foreconsider
misconsider
preconsider
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