Meaning

• To think about seriously.

  "Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun."

• To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.

• To think of doing.

  "I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow."

• (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.

  "Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful."

• To look at attentively.

  "She sat there for a moment, considering him."

• To take up as an example.

  "Consider a triangle having three equal sides."

• (parliamentary procedure) To debate (or dispose of) a motion.

  "This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code."

• To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

  "He never seems to consider the feelings of others."