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say it: thingk
think is a verb and noun meaning "judge or regard; look upon; judge". It is pronounced /ˈθɪŋk/ — thingk. It carries 14 recorded senses.
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”
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”
imagine or visualize
“Just think--you could be rich one day!”
“Think what a scene it must have been!”
decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
“Can you think what to do next?”
ponder; reflect on, or reason about
“Think the matter through”
“Think how hard life in Russia must be these days”
dispose the mind in a certain way
“Do you really think so?”
have or formulate in the mind
“think good thoughts”
be capable of conscious thought
“Man is the only creature that thinks”
bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
“She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for think come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.