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English Dictionary: think by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
think
n
  1. an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a good think"
v
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): think, believe, consider, conceive
  2. expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
    Synonym(s): think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
  3. use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
    Synonym(s): think, cogitate, cerebrate
  4. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"
    Synonym(s): remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
    Antonym(s): blank out, block, draw a blank, forget
  5. imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!"
  6. focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin"
  7. have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"
    Synonym(s): intend, mean, think
  8. decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting; "Can you think what to do next?"
  9. ponder; reflect on, or reason about; "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
  10. dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?"
  11. have or formulate in the mind; "think good thoughts"
  12. be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks"
  13. bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Think \Think\, n.
      Act of thinking; a thought. [Obs. or Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Think \Think\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thought}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Thinking}.] [OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS.
      [thorn]yncean (cf. {Methinks}), but confounded with OE.
      thenken to think, fr. AS. [thorn]encean (imp.
      [thorn][d3]hte); akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian,
      thunkian, G. denken, d[81]nken, Icel. [thorn]ekkja to
      perceive, to know, [thorn]ykkja to seem, Goth. [thorn]agkjan,
      [thorn]aggkjan, to think, [thorn]ygkjan to think, to seem,
      OL. tongere to know. Cf. {Thank}, {Thought}.]
      1. To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions
            methinketh or methinks, and methought.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Think \Think\, v. t.
      1. To conceive; to imagine.
  
                     Charity . . . thinketh no evil.         --1 Cor. xiii.
                                                                              4,5.
  
      2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.]
  
                     So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to
                     think the death Of her own son.         --Beau. & Fl.
  
      3. To believe; to consider; to esteem.
  
                     Nor think superfluous other's aid.      --Milton.
  
      {To think much}, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.]
            [bd][He] thought not much to clothe his enemies.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      {To think scorn}.
            (a) To disdain. [Obs.] [bd]He thought scorn to lay hands
                  on Mordecai alone.[b8] --Esther iii. 6.
            (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]
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