think > define

noun

• An instance of deliberate thinking.
  • usage: "I need to give it a good think"

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: 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: 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: 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
• Imagine or visualize.
  • usage: "Just think-you could be rich one day"; "Think what a scene it must have been"
• Focus one's attention on a certain state.
  • usage: "Think big"; "think thin"
• 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
• Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting.
  • usage: "Can you think what to do next"
• Ponder; reflect on, or reason about.
  • usage: "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
• Dispose the mind in a certain way.
  • usage: "Do you really think so"
• Have or formulate in the mind.
  • usage: "think good thoughts"
• Be capable of conscious thought.
  • usage: "Man is the only creature that thinks"
• Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation.
  • usage: "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"

• (n.) Act of thinking; a thought.
• (v.t.) To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
• (v.t.) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
• (v.t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.
• (v.t.) To believe; to consider; to esteem.
• (v.t.) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
• (v.t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
• (v.t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
• (v.t.) To presume; to venture.
• (v.t.) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
• (v.t.) To conceive; to imagine.