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English Dictionary: think |
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4 results for think |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- think
- n
- an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a
good think"
- v
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!"
- focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin"
- 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
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting; "Can you think what to do next?"
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about; "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
- dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?"
- have or formulate in the mind; "think good thoughts"
- be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks"
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Think \Think\, n.
Act of thinking; a thought. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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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.
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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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