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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Think \Think\, n. Act of thinking; a thought. [Obs. or Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Think \Think\, v. t. 1. To conceive; to imagine. Charity . . . thinketh no evil. --1 Cor. xiii. 4,5. 2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.] So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son. --Beau. & Fl 3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. Nor think superfluous other's aid. --Milton. {To think much}, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] ``[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies.'' --Milton. {To think scorn}. a To disdain. [Obs.] ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.'' --Esther iii. 6. b To feel indignation. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Think \Think\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thought}; p. pr & vb n. {Thinking}.] [OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS [thorn]yncean (cf. {Methinks}), but confounded with OE thenken to think, fr AS [thorn]encean (imp. [thorn][=o]hte); akin to D. denken dunken, OS thenkian thunkian G. denken d["u]nken, Icel. [thorn]ekkja to perceive, to know [thorn]ykkja to seem, Goth. [thorn]agkjan, [thorn]aggkjan, to think, [thorn]ygkjan to think, to seem, OL tongere to know Cf {Thank}, {Thought}.] 1. To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: think n : (informal) an instance of deliberate thinking: "I need to give it a good think" v 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" [syn: {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" [syn: {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" [syn: {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" [syn: {remember}, {retrieve}, {recall}, {call back}, {call up}, {recollect}, {remind}] [ant: {forget}] 5: imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!" 6: focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin" 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" [syn: {intend}, {mean}] 8: decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting; "Can you think what to do next?" 9: ponder; reflect on or reason about "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days" 10: dispose the mind in a certain way "Do you really think so?" 11: have or formulate in the mind; "think good thoughts" 12: be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks" 13: bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"
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