think

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þencan (“to meditate, cogitate, consider; think, have in mind; suppose, imagine, hold as an opinion or belief; think of, consider, employ the mind on a subject, reason”), from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think, suppose, perceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *tong-, *teng- (“to think, feel, know”). Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken (“to think”), Low German denken (“to think”), dinken, German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian tenke (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Latin tongō (“know”).

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (transitive) to ponder, to go over in one's head
    Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
  2. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
    I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
  3. (intransitive) to conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on)
    I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
  4. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
    I think she is pretty, contrary to most people.
  5. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
    I think she’ll pass the examination.
  6. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
    At the time I thought his adamant refusal to give in right.
    I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means.
  7. 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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Translations[edit]
to ponder, to go over in one's head
communicate to oneself in one’s mind
to conceive of something or someone
be of the opinion that
guess, reckon
consider, judge, regard something as
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Noun[edit]

think (usually uncountable; plural thinks)

  1. An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
    I'll have a think about that and let you know.
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Terms derived from the noun think
Translations[edit]
an act of thinking

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English þyncan

Verb[edit]

think (obsolete except in archaic methinks)

  1. (intransitive) To seem, to appear.
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
      And than hym thought there com an olde man afore hym whych seyde, ‘A, Launcelot, of evill wycked fayth and poore beleve!’
Translations[edit]
to seem, to appear

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