Definition of 'think'
English
Alternative forms
* thinck (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from (etyl) .
Verb
(label) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought ! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-03|volume=408|issue=8847|magazine=(The Economist)
|title= Revenge of the nerds
|passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
(label) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
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To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of'''; infrequently, by '''on ).
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(label) To be of the opinion (that).
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|title=(The Celebrity)|chapter=3
|passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
(label) To guess; to reckon.
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(label) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
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*|chapter=1
|title= Mr. Pratt's Patients
|chapter=1
|passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
*Sir (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe)
*:The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he
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|title=(The Celebrity)|chapter=4
|passage=“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}
To presume; to venture.
*(Bible), (w) iii. 9
*:Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.
Synonyms
* (
sense,
communicate to oneself in one's mind) cogitate, ponder, reflect, ruminate; see also
* opine; see also
* guess (
US), imagine, reckon, suppose
* consider, deem, find, judge, regard; see also
Derived terms
* rethink
* think about
* thinker
* thinko
* think of
* think on one's feet
* think out
* think over
(
rel-mid)
* think piece
* think the world of
* think twice
* think up
* think with one's little head
* unthinkable
(
rel-bottom)
Related terms
* bethink
* forthink
* thought
* thunk
Noun
(en-noun)
An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
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Derived terms
* badthink
* doublethink
* goodthink
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rel-mid)
* groupthink
* have another think coming
* rethink (noun, as in "have a rethink")
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rel-bottom)
Etymology 2
From (etyl)
Verb
think' (''obsolete except in archaic'' ' methinks )
(label) To seem, to appear.
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- And whanne syr launcelot sawe he myghte not ryde vp in to the montayne / he there alyghte vnder an Appel tree // And then he leid hym doune to slepe / And thenne hym thoughte there came an old man afore hym / the whiche sayd A launcelot of euylle feythe and poure byleue / wherfor is thy wille tourned soo lyghtely toward thy dedely synne
