noun
definition
An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
example
I'll have a think about that and let you know.
verb
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To ponder, to go over in one's head.
example
Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
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To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
example
I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
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To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
example
I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
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To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
example
At the time I thought his adamant refusal to give in right.
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To guess; to reckon.
example
I think she’ll pass the examination.
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To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
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To presume; to venture.
verb
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To seem, to appear.
Examples of thinks in a Sentence
He thinks you are better than us.
He thinks that he makes a fine figure when he waits on you.
Alex thinks someone spiked his punch.
Quinn thinks I should mind my own business.
Some perp thinks Youngblood is the real deal; the Psychic Tipster, so he cuts him up like pork roast, gets to the truth, and dumps him.
You're the one who thinks I'm afraid.
She also thinks I came to kill you.
Linda thinks about this and decides she wants to keep it ad-free for now.
He thinks I am still a child.
He talks about you - thinks about you all the time.
He's sought out anyone he thinks might lead him in the right direction.
She thinks I'm a brat.
But the cost is so negligible that no one thinks much of it.
I send you with this letter a pretty book which my teacher thinks will interest you, and my picture.
I am glad Mr. Anagnos thinks so highly of me as a teacher.
Nobody thinks of making a hearing child say, "I have a pretty new dress," at the beginning.
She thinks it is wonderful that two people should write stories so much alike; but she still considers her own as original.
Teacher says it was a day-dream, and she thinks you would be delighted to hear it.
She thinks Alex is abandoning us.
Why don't you call Brennan when we get to the office and see what he thinks about the mystical Mr. Youngblood?
She thinks it's great I've found someone in my life.
And because some little snot-nose has a vivid imagination, or thinks it's fun to tell whoppers, I'm supposed to go traipsing off in some god-forsaken mine on the taxpayer's expense on a treasure hunt?
You're safer if Greene thinks you're dead.
Everybody thinks everybody else is sleeping with each other just because half of them are.
He thinks I am too.
And he still thinks you're Jeffrey Byrne.
I'm sure Alex thinks so too.
Powell also thinks that man lived in America before he acquired articulate speech.
She has eight puppies, and she thinks there never were such fine puppies as hers.
Mache thinks that the ionization observed in the atmosphere may be wholly accounted for by the radioactive emanation.
Wilson considers that convection currents in the upper atmosphere would be quite inadequate, but conduction may, he thinks, be sufficient alone.
Every moment one expects to find Descartes saying with Hobbes that man's thought has created God, or with Spinoza and Malebranche that it is God who really thinks in the apparent thought of man.
Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the Ghegs, or northern, and the Tosks, or southern, Albanians.
This phylogeny, the author thinks, is the most probable of all.
This view ignores that man has ideals of absolute value, truth, beauty, goodness, that he consciously communes with the God who is in all, and through all, and over all, that it is his mind which recognizes the vastness of the universe and thinks its universal law, and that the mind which perceives and conceives cannot be less, but must be greater than the object of its knowledge and thought.
The place of meeting, Elvira, was not far from the modern Granada, if not, as Dale thinks, actually identical with it.
This body tends to stitution become a little state within the state, and, by conof the free trolling the victorious majority, disposes of the cities, government as it thinks best.
He will not waste time upon triflers who deny what he thinks, in the light of the (empiricist!) Design argument, an absolutely clear truth.'
If the prosecutor have first brought him before the civil judge, the evidence is to be sent to the bishop, and the latter, if he thinks the crime has been committed, may deprive him of his office and order, and the judge shall apply to him the proper legal punishment.
Some species, such as Anemone alpine, which are wanting in the Arctic flora of the Old World, he thinks must have reached Europe by way of Greenland from north-east America.
One editor of his De Consolatione, Bertius, thinks that he bore the praenomen of Flavius, but there is no authority for this supposition.
One editor, Godofredus Friedlein, thinks that there are only two manuscripts which can at all lay claim to contain the work of Boetius.
Peiper thinks that the first three treatises are the productions of the early years of Boetius.
Peiper thinks that, as the best MSS.
He thinks that the variations in the inscriptions of the fifth treatise, which is not found in the best manuscript, are so great that the name of Boetius could not have originally been in the title.
Charles thinks that in this passage the idea of resurrection is of purely Jewish and not of Mazdaan (or Zoroastrian) origin, but it is otherwise with Dan.
Hoffmann thinks that the original form was Abednergo, for Abednergal, "servant of the god Nergal."
The chief and almost the only use of dung, he thinks, is to divide the earth, to dissolve " this terrestrial matter, which affords nutriment to the mouths of vegetable roots "; and this can be done more completely by tillage.
Rents were paid in corn; and for the largest farm, which he thinks should employ no more than two ploughs, the rent was about six chalders of victual " when the ground is very good, and four in that which is not so good.
He thinks that on the union of the kingdoms the witans were merged into one another, while the folkmoot became the shiremoot.