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Thinking   /θˈɪŋkɪŋ/   Listen
Thinking

noun
1.
The process of using your mind to consider something carefully.  Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought, thought process.  "She paused for thought"
adjective
1.
Endowed with the capacity to reason.  Synonyms: intelligent, reasoning.


Think

verb
(past & past part. thought; pres. part. thinking)
1.
Judge or regard; look upon; judge.  Synonyms: believe, conceive, consider.  "I believe her to be very smart" , "I think that he is her boyfriend" , "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
2.
Expect, believe, or suppose.  Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, reckon, suppose.  "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"
3.
Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.  Synonyms: cerebrate, cogitate.
4.
Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.  Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve.  "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"
5.
Imagine or visualize.  "Think what a scene it must have been!"
6.
Focus one's attention on a certain state.  "Think thin"
7.
Have in mind as a purpose.  Synonyms: intend, mean.  "I only meant to help you" , "She didn't think to harm me" , "We thought to return early that night"
8.
Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting.
9.
Ponder; reflect on, or reason about.  "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
10.
Dispose the mind in a certain way.
11.
Have or formulate in the mind.
12.
Be capable of conscious thought.
13.
Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation.



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"Thinking" Quotes from Famous Books



... that this was a foolish idea, and that the only thing to be done was to deposit it. He wrote a grateful note of acknowledgment to Williams, and then gave himself up to the agreeable occupation of thinking what he should buy for Selma with the money. He decided not to tell her of his good fortune, but to treat her to a surprise. His first fancy was in favor of jewelry—some necklace or lustrous ornament for the hair, which would charm the feminine eye and might ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... to her light knock he glanced quickly around, and observing her unusual expression, advanced to meet her, thinking, as did Miss Gladden, that possibly she had heard something appertaining to the present situation ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour
... strange. I have been thinking about him and my heart has been aching for him all the time. You must hear. It is most important." He lit a ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... that," Russ agreed. "But if the steamboat sinks it'll be on the bottom of the lake, and it won't move and we can't have rides. That'll be no fun!" And the boy began to whistle, which he almost always did when he was thinking hard, ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's • Laura Lee Hope
... less the comprehension. But this vacant idea of a whole without parts, of a subject without predicates, a rest without motion, has been also the most fruitful of all ideas. It is the beginning of a priori thought, and indeed of thinking at all. Men were led to conceive it, not by a love of hasty generalization, but by a divine instinct, a dialectical enthusiasm, in which the human faculties seemed to yearn for enlargement. We know that 'being' is only the verb of existence, the copula, ...
— Timaeus • Plato


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