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Consider

verb

(past & past part. considered; pres. part. considering)

Deem to be. Synonyms: reckon, regard, see, view. "I consider her to be shallow" , "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

Give careful consideration to. Synonym: study.

Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes. Synonyms: deal, look at, take. "Consider the following case"

Show consideration for; take into account. Synonyms: count, weigh. "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"

Think about carefully; weigh. Synonyms: debate, deliberate, moot, turn over. "Turn the proposal over in your mind"

Judge or regard; look upon; judge. Synonyms: believe, conceive, think. "I believe her to be very smart" , "I think that he is her boyfriend" , "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

Look at attentively. Synonym: regard.

Look at carefully; study mentally. Synonyms: look at, view.

Regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem.

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"Consider" Quotes from Famous Books

... nose. The girl married Morton. He gave her no time to recover from her gratitude. He felt very happy, he told me, the day of his wedding, very elated. It was one of those rare occasions when he felt that the world was a good place. Another high light, you see. And it was no mean thing, if you consider it, for a man such as he to marry the daughter of a peer, and at the same time to love her. He was not a gentleman, you understand, he could never be that—it was the one secret thing that always hurt him—no amount of brains, no amount of courage ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... maritime limits in the Barents Sea and Russia's fishing rights beyond Svalbard's territorial limits within the Svalbard Treaty zone; Russia continues to reject signing and ratifying the joint 1996 technical border agreement with Estonia; the Russian Parliament refuses to consider ratification of the boundary treaties with Estonia and Latvia, but in May 2003, ratified land and maritime boundary treaty with Lithuania, which ratified the 1997 treaty in 1999, legalizing limits of former Soviet republic borders; ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... them form any high ideal of wheel conveyance; and that unless we had seen an Egyptian king bending his bow with his horses at the gallop, or a Greek knight leaning with his poised lance over the shoulder of his charioteer, we have no right to consider ourselves as thoroughly knowing what the word "chariot," ...

— The Harbours of England • John Ruskin

... office," said the husband; "therefore let us consider Thursday as an appointment. We dine at three o'clock, and after coffee Laide ...

— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen

... said, that France, by gaining Grotius, had a sufficient reparation for the loss of Scaliger; and that if some others had been the ornament of the age, he was the wonder of it; and it is with reason (adds M. Mesnage, after relating this story of Peyresc) that we still consider Grotius as a prodigy of learning, since he has made a greater proficiency in most of the sciences, than many of those who have wholly applied to one of ...

— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny

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