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| | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[think]] about [[seriously]]. | | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[think]] about [[seriously]]. |
| − | #: '''''Consider''' that we've had three major events and the year has hardly begun.'' | + | #: {{usex|'''Consider''' that we've had three major events and the year has hardly begun.}} |
| | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To think of doing. | | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To think of doing. |
| − | #: ''I'm '''considering''' going to the beach tomorrow.'' | + | #: {{usex|I'm '''considering''' going to the beach tomorrow.}} |
| | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[assign]] some [[quality]] to. | | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[assign]] some [[quality]] to. |
| | #* {{quote-book|passage="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."|title=[[S:Pride and Prejudice/Chapter 6|Pride and Prejudice]]|author={{w|Jane Austen}}|year=1813}} | | #* {{quote-book|passage="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."|title=[[S:Pride and Prejudice/Chapter 6|Pride and Prejudice]]|author={{w|Jane Austen}}|year=1813}} |
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| | |chapter=Foreword|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W | | |chapter=Foreword|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W |
| | |passage=‘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. […]’}} | | |passage=‘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. […]’}} |
| − | #: '''''Consider''' yourself lucky, but '''consider''' your opponent skillful.'' | + | #: {{usex|'''Consider''' yourself lucky, but '''consider''' your opponent skillful.}} |
| − | #: ''I '''considered''' the pie undercooked.'' | + | #: {{usex|I '''considered''' the pie undercooked.}} |
| | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[look]] at [[attentively]]. | | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[look]] at [[attentively]]. |
| − | #: ''She sat there for a moment, '''considering''' him. | + | #: {{usex|She sat there for a moment, '''considering''' him.}} |
| | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[take up]] as an [[example]]. | | # {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[take up]] as an [[example]]. |
| − | #: '''''Consider''' a triangle having three equal sides.'' | + | #*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-14|author=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sam-leith Sam Leith] |
| | + | |volume=189|issue=1|page=37|magazine={{w|The Guardian Weekly}} |
| | + | |title=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/23/holy-shit-history-swearing-mohr Where the profound meets the profane] |
| | + | |passage=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.}} |
| | + | #: {{usex|'''Consider''' a triangle having three equal sides.}} |
| | # {{context|transitive|parliamentary procedure|lang=en}} To [[debate]] or [[dispose]] of a [[motion]]. | | # {{context|transitive|parliamentary procedure|lang=en}} To [[debate]] or [[dispose]] of a [[motion]]. |
| − | #: ''This body will now '''consider''' the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.'' | + | #: {{usex|This body will now '''consider''' the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.}} |
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| | ====Usage notes==== | | ====Usage notes==== |
