Pronunciations (11)
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/ˈθɪŋk/
Pronunciation notes
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[ˈθɪŋk]
Pronunciation notes
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/ˈθæŋk/
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[ˈθæŋk]
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[ˈθeɪ̯ŋk]
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[ˈθɛ̃ŋk]
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[ˈθiŋk]
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[ˈθɪ̝ŋk]
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[ˈfɪŋk]
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[ˈtɪŋk]
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[ˈt̪ɪŋk]
Verb
To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
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I think about this problem.
Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
Had we but world enough and time / This coyness, lady, were no crime. / We would sit down, and think which way / To walk, and pass our long love's day.
To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
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"I should phone my mother," I thought.
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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.
To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
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I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
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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 conceive of something or someone
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I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
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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.
To be of the opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
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I think this plan is good.
I don't think it worth complaining about the leak in the roof, is it?
I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means.
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She thought it pointless starting before four o'clock.
I think she is pretty, contrary to most people.
Boxing is thought to be a dangerous sport.
It was thought that I was the mole in the company.
My brother he is in Elizium, / Perchance he is not drown'd: What thinke you, ſaylors?.
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 182. […] one man showed me a young oak which he had transplanted from behind the town, thinking it an apple-tree.
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.
To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
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We should/would have thought she could've washed her hands before, at least.
To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
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We are thinking of moving.
The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he[…]
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“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.
In 1985 I sat down and wrote a four-page outline from which I thought to base such a work.
To presume; to venture.
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Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.
Noun
An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
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I'll have a think about that and let you know.
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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
Noun
an instance of deliberate thinking
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I need to give it a good think
Verb
judge or regard; look upon; judge
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I think he is very smart
I believe her to be very smart
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I think that he is her boyfriend
The racist conceives such people to be inferior
expect, believe, or suppose
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I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel
I thought to find her in a bad state
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he didn't think to find her in the kitchen
I guess she is angry at me for standing her up
use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
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I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere
recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
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I can't remember saying any such thing
I can't think what her last name was
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can you remember her phone number?
Do you remember that he once loved you?
call up memories
imagine or visualize
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Just think — you could be rich one day!
Think what a scene it must have been!
focus one's attention on a certain state
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Think big
think thin
have in mind as a purpose
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I mean no harm
I only meant to help you
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She didn't think to harm me
We thought to return early that night
decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
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Can you think what to do next?
ponder; reflect on, or reason about
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Think the matter through
Think how hard life in Russia must be these days
dispose the mind in a certain way
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Do you really think so?
have or formulate in the mind
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think good thoughts
be capable of conscious thought
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Man is the only creature that thinks
bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
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She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam