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thinking

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: think‧ing
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

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From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think +‎ -ing.

Noun

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thinking (usually uncountable, plural thinkings)

  1. The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.
  2. A thought.
    What is your thinking on this subject?
    • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 16 May 2024:
      But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
    • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
      When BR "back-checked" (BR's term) the financial results of steam replacement across 49 schemes, where DMUs had been substituted on the London Midland Region, only one was now profitable. BR thinking on such substitutions referred to "betterment", not profit or loss.
    • 2023 August 16, Alayna Treene, “Trump plots counterprogramming for GOP primary debate, sources say”, in CNN‎[2], archived from the original on 19 August 2023:
      The current thinking among Donald Trump’s campaign advisers and those close to the former president is that he is not planning on participating in next week’s Republican presidential primary debate, three sources familiar with his plans tell CNN, and has been proposing counterprogramming to the event.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English thenkinge, þinkynge, þenkynge, þenchinde, from Old English þenċende, from Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, present participle of *þankijaną (“to think”), equivalent to think +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch denkend (“thinking”), German denkend (“thinking”), Swedish tänkande (“thinking”).

Verb

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thinking

  1. present participle and gerund of think
    I'm thinking about inventing a new perpetual-motion machine.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
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