Plotting and Thinking

noun

• The process of using your mind to consider something carefully.
  • usage: "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"
  • synonyms: thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation

verb

• Judge or regard; look upon; judge.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: think, believe, consider, conceive
• Expect, believe, or suppose.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
• Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.
  • usage: "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
  • synonyms: think, cogitate, cerebrate
• Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
• Imagine or visualize.
  • usage: "Just think-you could be rich one day"; "Think what a scene it must have been"
  • synonyms: think
• Focus one's attention on a certain state.
  • usage: "Think big"; "think thin"
  • synonyms: think
• Have in mind as a purpose.
  • usage: "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"
  • synonyms: intend, mean, think
• Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting.
  • usage: "Can you think what to do next"
  • synonyms: think
• Ponder; reflect on, or reason about.
  • usage: "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
  • synonyms: think
• Dispose the mind in a certain way.
  • usage: "Do you really think so"
  • synonyms: think
• Have or formulate in the mind.
  • usage: "think good thoughts"
  • synonyms: think
• Be capable of conscious thought.
  • usage: "Man is the only creature that thinks"
  • synonyms: think
• Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation.
  • usage: "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"
  • synonyms: think

adjective

• Endowed with the capacity to reason.
  • synonyms: intelligent, reasoning

• (n.) The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
• (a.) Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Think.