ENGLISH: think - CREOLE: kwè



Overview of noun think



The noun think has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)



1. think -- (an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a good think")



Overview of verb think



The verb think has 13 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)



1. (277) 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")

2. (190) 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")

3. (111) 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")

4. (8) 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")

5. (4) think -- (imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!")

6. (3) think -- (focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin")

7. (2) 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")

8. think -- (decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting; "Can you think what to do next?")

9. think -- (ponder; reflect on, or reason about; "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days")

10. think -- (dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?")

11. think -- (have or formulate in the mind; "think good thoughts")

12. think -- (be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks")

13. think -- (bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam")

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