THINK

think

(noun) an instance of deliberate thinking; “I need to give it a good think”

think

(verb) bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; “She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam”

remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think

(verb) 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”

think

(verb) be capable of conscious thought; “Man is the only creature that thinks”

think, cogitate, cerebrate

(verb) 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”

think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess

(verb) 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”

think, believe, consider, conceive

(verb) 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”

intend, mean, think

(verb) 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”

think

(verb) focus one’s attention on a certain state; “Think big”; “think thin”

think

(verb) imagine or visualize; “Just think--you could be rich one day!”; “Think what a scene it must have been!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought)

(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.

(intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

(intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).

(transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.

(transitive) To guess; to reckon.

To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).

To presume; to venture.

Synonyms

• (ponder): See Thesaurus:ponder

• (communicate to oneself in one's mind): See Thesaurus:think

• (be of the opinion (that)): See Thesaurus:have opinion

• (guess, reckon): guess See Thesaurus:suppose

• (consider, judge, regard something as): See Thesaurus:deem

Noun

think (usually uncountable, plural thinks)

(chiefly, UK) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).

Etymology 2

Verb

think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought)

(obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

Source: Wiktionary

Think, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thought; p. pr. & vb. n. Thinking.] Etym: [OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS. þyncean (cf. Methinks), but confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean (imp. þohte); akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan 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.

Note: These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case.

2. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. For that I am I know, because I think. Dryden.

3. Specifically: -- (a) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. Well thought upon; I have it here. Shak.

(b) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. And when he thought thereon, he wept. Mark xiv. 72. He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits Luke xii. 17.

(c) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. Let them marry to whom they think best. Num. xxxvi. 6.

(d) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. I thought to promote thee unto great honor. Num. xxiv. 11. Thou thought'st to help me. Shak.

(e) To presume; to venture. Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father. Matt. iii. 9.

Note: To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preëminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as "comprehending all our collective energies." It is defined by Mansel as "the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts,"by Lotze as "the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences." See Thought. To think better of. See under Better.

– To think much of, or To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly.

Syn.

– To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See Expect, Guess.

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.] "[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies." Milton.

– To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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