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Adjective thinking has 1 sense
- intelligent, reasoning, thinking - endowed with the capacity to reason
Antonym: irrational (indirect, via rational)
Noun thinking has 1 sense
- thinking, thought, cerebration, intellection, mentation - the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"
--1 is a kind of higher cognitive process
--1 has particulars:
Verb think has 13 senses
- think, believe, consider, conceive - 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"
--1 is one way to judge
Sample sentence:
They think that there was a traffic accident
- think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess - 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"
--2 is one way to expect, anticipate
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Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- think, cogitate, cerebrate - 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"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think - 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"
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
- think - imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!"
--5 is one way to imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
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Somebody ----s
- think - focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin"
--6 is one way to concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet
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Somebody ----s Adjective
- intend, mean, think - 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"
--7 is one way to will, wish
Sample sentence:
They think to move
- think - decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting; "Can you think what to do next?"
--8 is one way to think, cogitate, cerebrate
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Somebody ----s something
- think - ponder; reflect on, or reason about; "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
--9 is one way to think, cogitate, cerebrate
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
- think - dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?"
--10 is one way to think, believe, consider, conceive
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Somebody ----s
- think - have or formulate in the mind; "think good thoughts"
--11 is one way to think, cogitate, cerebrate
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Somebody ----s something
- think - be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks"
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Sam and Sue think
- think - bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"
--13 is one way to change, alter, modify
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Somebody ----s somebody
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