think /θɪŋk/
1. an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a good think"
synset: think
1. judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
synset: think, believe, consider, conceive
2. expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "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"
synset: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
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; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
synset: think, cogitate, cerebrate
4. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "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"
synset: remember, retrieve, recall, call_back, call_up, recollect, think
antonym: forget, block, blank_out, draw_a_blank
5. imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!"
synset: think
6. focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin"
synset: think
7. have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "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; "Can you think what to do next?"
synset: think
9. ponder; reflect on, or reason about; "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
synset: think
10. dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?"
synset: think
11. have or formulate in the mind; "think good thoughts"
synset: think
12. be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks"
synset: think
13. bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"
synset: think
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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