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Meaning of consider

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  consider
      v 1: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I
           consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation
           quite as negatively as you do" [syn: {see}, {consider},
           {reckon}, {view}, {regard}]
      2: give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of
         moving" [syn: {study}, {consider}]
      3: take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the
         case of China"; "Consider the following case" [syn:
         {consider}, {take}, {deal}, {look at}]
      4: show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider
         her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was
         lenient" [syn: {consider}, {count}, {weigh}]
      5: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the
         possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your
         mind" [syn: {consider}, {debate}, {moot}, {turn over},
         {deliberate}]
      6: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very
         smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is
         her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be
         inferior" [syn: {think}, {believe}, {consider}, {conceive}]
      7: look at attentively [syn: {regard}, {consider}]
      8: look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem" [syn:
         {view}, {consider}, {look at}]
      9: regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem;
         "Please consider your family"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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