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** English
[think (disambiguation)]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [thĭngk] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en], from
[en].
Cognate with [sco], [sco], [frr], [frr], [frr], [frr], [stq], [fy], [nl],
[nl], [af], [nds], [nds], [de], [da], [sv], [nb], [nn], [is], [la].
**** Verb
[thinks]
1. [en] To ponder , to go over in one's mind.
2. * [1650] , [Andrew Marvell] , _Basa Sunda: To His Coy Mistress_ :
3. *: _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._
4. [en] To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
5. * {{ RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein | IV
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
2. * [chapter=1]
3. [en] To conceive of something or someone _(usually followed by OF ; infrequently, by ON )._
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-08-03 | volume=408 | issue=8847 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Revenge of the nerds (see
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21582512-explosion-start-ups-changing-finance-better-revenge-nerds)
|passage= 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.}}
1. [en] To be of opinion (that); to consider , judge , regard , or look upon (something) as.
2. * [I]
3. * 1865 , Henry David Thoreau, _Cape Cod_ , Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 182.
4. *: [There were a few trees among the houses, especially silver abeles, willows, and balm-of-Gileads; and] one man showed me a young oak which he had transplanted from behind the town, THINKING it an apple-tree.
5. * [chapter=3]
6. [en] To guess ; to reckon ; to believe while admittedly being uncertain .
7. To plan ; to be consider ing; to be of a mind (to do something).
8. * {{ RQ:Scott Ivanhoe
|passage=The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I THOUGHT
to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he[...]}}
1. * [chapter=4]
2. To presume; to venture.
3. * [Matthew]
4. [en] [en] .
***** Conjugation
[old=1]
***** Synonyms
- [ponder] [en]
- [communicate to oneself in one's mind] [en]
- [be of the opinion (that)] [en]
- [guess, reckon] [en] [en]
- [consider, judge, regard something as] [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |bethink |forethink|makes you think |rethink<!--verb--> |overthink
|think about |think on|think time |thinker|quick-thinking |think nothing
of|think good|think one hung the moon|think one is God's own cousin |think
nothing of it |thinko|think straight|give someone something to think about
|think of|I think not|think with portals |think on one's feet |think out
|think over |think piece |think the world of |think twice |think up |think
with one's little head |underthink |unthink |unthinkable|straight-thinking
|who do you think you are |close one's eyes and think of England|come to think
of it|do you think you can walk|don't even think about it|great minds think
alike|group-think|have another think|hear oneself think|I don't think|I don't
think so|I think so|I think therefore I am|lie back and think of England|shut
one's eyes and think of England|think again|think all one's Christmases have
come at once|think aloud|think aloud protocol|think back|think better of|think
big|think factory|think fast|think for oneself|think little of|think
meat|think much of|think no end of oneself|think of England|think of the
children|think one is it|think one's shit doesn't stink|think out loud|think
tank|think the sun shines out of someone's arse|think the sun shines out of
someone's ass|think the sun shines out of someone's backside|think the sun
shines out of someone's butt|think the world revolves around one|think
through|think too much|think with one's other head|think with one's
penis|think-aloud
protocol|think-pair-share|think-pair-sharing|think-tank|think-tanked|think-tanker|to
think that|won't someone think of the children|you think|you would think|you'd
think|I thought you'd never ask|ill-thought-out|who would have thought it|}}
***** Related terms
{{col4|en |forthink <!-- not derived; from etymon in Old English --> |thought
|thunk |thank }}
***** Translations
[to ponder, to go over in one's head]{{multitrans|data=
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Adnyamathanha: [adt]
- Akkadian: [akk]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Andi: [ani]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue] , [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr] , [chr]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [slang] [fi]
- French: [fr] à, [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got] , [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kaurna: [zku] , [zku]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Low German: [nds] , [nds]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc]
- Mansaka: [msk]
- Mauritian Creole: [mfe]
- Middle Low German: [gml]
- Mizo: [lus]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Norman: [nrf]
- North Frisian: [frr] [Föhr-Amrum]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or] , [or]
- Old Occitan: [pro]
- Old Saxon: [osx]
- Old Turkic: [otk] , [otk]
- Oromo: [om]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta] , [ta]
- Tarantino: [roa-tar]
- Ternate: [tft]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi] , [tpi]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo] , [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] [a] , [wa] [a]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Zealandic: [zea]
[trans-bottom]
[communicate to oneself in one’s mind]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- American Sign Language: [ase]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] ; [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Buryat: [bua] , [bua]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chukchi: [ckt]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Inuktitut: [iu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Isan: [tts]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum] , [kum]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lü: [khb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Mizo: [lus]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: [nv]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Northern Sami: [se] , [se]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Turkic: [otk]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polabian: [pox]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] ; [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: [shn]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tai Dam: [blt]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom]
[to conceive of something or someone]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] [+ essive] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] ; [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa] [come] , [wa] [come] , [wa] [come]
[trans-bottom]
[be of the opinion that]
- American Sign Language: [ase]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [especially Switzerland] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea] , [kea]
- Kaurna: [zku]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Middle French: [frm]
- Mizo: [lus] , [lus]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[guess, reckon]
- American Sign Language: [ase]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Egyptian: [jb]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
[trans-bottom]
[consider, judge, regard something as]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] że
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
}} [trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Ido: [io]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Mandarin: [cmn] , [cmn] , [cmn] , [cmn] , [cmn] , [cmn] , [cmn]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Volapük: [vo]
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=Terms derived from the noun _think_ |badthink |doublethink
|goodthink |groupthink |have another think coming<!--this is the correct form;
"have another thing coming" is a corrupted form--> |[en] (noun, as in "have a
rethink") |wrongthink }}
***** Translations
[an act of thinking]{{multitrans|data=
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Tamil: [ta]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], [enm] (also [enm], [enm]), from [en], from [en].
Cognate with [nl], [de], [da], [sv], [is]. More at [en].
**** Verb
[thinks]
1. [en] [en] To seem , to appear .
2. * [17.5]
<!--Prior quote:And than hym THOUGHT there com an olde man afore hym whych
seyde, ‘A, Launcelot, of evill wycked fayth and poore beleve!’-->
***** Translations
[to seem, to appear]{{multitrans|data=
- Dutch: [archaic] [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
[en] [en]
** Middle English
*** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Scots
*** Etymology
From earlier [sco], from [sco], [enm], from [sco], [ang].
*** Verb
[thinks]
1. [sco] to [en] , to conceive , to have in mind
2. [sco] to believe , to hold as an opinion , to judge ; to feel , to have as an emotion
3. * [sco]
4. [sco] to ponder , to meditate , to consider , to reflect on
5. [sco] to have scruple s, to doubt , to reconsider
6. * [sco]
7. to devise , to work out, to contrive
8. [sco] to be ashamed
9. * [sco]
*** Noun
[sco-noun]
1. thought , opinion , frequently one’s own opinion
*** References
- “think (see http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/think) ” in _吴语: Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue_ , Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh, retrieved 19 June 2018.