Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To have or formulate in the mind.
- intransitive verb To reason about or reflect on; ponder.
- intransitive verb To decide by reasoning, reflection, or pondering.
- intransitive verb To judge or regard; look upon.
- intransitive verb To believe; suppose.
- intransitive verb To expect; hope.
- intransitive verb To intend.
- intransitive verb To call to mind; remember.
- intransitive verb To visualize; imagine.
- intransitive verb To devise or evolve; invent.
- intransitive verb To bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation.
- intransitive verb To concentrate one's thoughts on; keep as a point of focus.
- intransitive verb To exercise the power of reason, as by conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and using judgment.
- intransitive verb To consider or weigh an idea.
- intransitive verb To bring a thought to mind by using the imagination.
- intransitive verb To recall a thought or an image to mind.
- intransitive verb To have a belief, supposition, or opinion.
- intransitive verb To have care or consideration.
- intransitive verb To use the mind in a certain way.
- adjective Requiring much thought to create or assimilate.
- noun The act or an instance of deliberate or extended thinking; a meditation.
- idiom (come to think of it) When one considers the matter; on reflection.
- idiom (aloud/out loud) To speak one's thoughts audibly.
- idiom (think better of) To change one's mind about; reconsider.
- idiom (think big) To plan ambitiously or on a grand scale.
- idiom (think little of) To regard as inferior; have a poor opinion of.
- idiom (think nothing of) To give little consideration to; regard as routine or usual.
- idiom (think twice) To weigh something carefully.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To seem; appear: with indirect object (dative).
- To seem good.
- noun A thinking; thought.
- To judge; say to one's self mentally; form as a judgment or conception.
- To form a mental image of; imagine: often equivalent to recollect; recall; consider.
- To cognize; apprehend; grasp intellectually.
- To judge problematically; form a conception of (something) in the mind and recognize it as possibly true, without decidedly assenting to it as such.
- To purpose; intend; mean; contemplate; have in mind (to do): usually followed by an infinitive clause as the object.
- To hold as a belief or opinion; opine; believe; consider.
- To feel: as, to
think scorn. - To modify (an immediate object of cognition) at will; operate on by thought (in a specified way).
- To devise; plan; project.
- To solve by process of thought: as, to
think out a chess problem. - To exercise the intellect, as in apprehension, judgment, or inference; exercise the cognitive faculties in any way not involving outward observation, or the passive reception of ideas from other minds.
- To imagine: followed by of or on.
- To attend (on); fasten the mind (on): followed by of.
- To entertain a sentiment or opinion (in a specified way): with of: as, to
think highly of a person's abilities.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think we sometimes work against ourselves, about this issue of who we * think* will win.
Poll: Hillary Doesn't Have To Apologize For 2002 Iraq Vote 2009
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I think this little Anglophobic historian really wants to * think* about the families of those SAS lads - that died trying to prevent an all-out 'regional carnage' when they attempted to destroy those Skud missile sites - and then Roberts should just shut up.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I think we sometimes work against ourselves, about this issue of who we * think* will win.
Poll: Hillary Doesn't Have To Apologize For 2002 Iraq Vote 2009
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I think that a long haired Dachshund is about the cutest thing ever and I *think* a Dachshund won't shed, yes?
I've never had a dog. Ann Althouse 2008
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I can't speak for Ann, but I don't think the concern for me is about what people may *do* but what they may *think*.
Do you worry about what black people will think if Barack Obama loses? Ann Althouse 2008
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Twitter in that regards I think fails and I *think*, in retrospect, maybe this was what @downes tried to get at with his “twitter is closed” comments months ago, but maybe not.
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I think Lawyer Mama and other's question about how we become "less" self conscious is a really good one, and I *think* I know why.
The Way We Were 2007
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I think a good response to “Why are you so focused on Lieberman?” would be “Why do you *think*?”
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"When I think," he continued, "when I _think_ of how close you three space brats came to getting kicked out of the Academy --"
Sabotage in Space Carey Rockwell
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'_I have made him think, I have made him think_,' he repeats gleefully; and, sure of his point, he delights in having held our attention so intently as to cause us to debate the issue with ourselves.
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
bilby commented on the word think
Think.
June 3, 2009