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English Dictionary: thinking by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thinking
adj
  1. endowed with the capacity to reason [syn: intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)]
n
  1. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"
    Synonym(s): thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation
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]:
   Thinking \Think"ing\, a.
      Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a
      regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. --
      {Think"ing*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thinking \Think"ing\, n.
      The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination;
      cogitation; judgment.
  
               I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking,
               pleased the king.                                    --Shak.
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