Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word THINK

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Definitions of THINK

1. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
2. To presume; to venture.
3. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
4. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
5. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
6. (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
7. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
8. (chiefly, UK) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
9. (obsoleteexcept in methinks) To seem, to appear.

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Examples of Using THINK in a Sentence

• A cultural movement is a shared effort by loosely affiliated individuals to change the way others in society think by disseminating ideas through various art forms and making intentional choices in daily life.
• The Latin , usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy.
• Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, a think tank that promotes free-market environmentalism.
• Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, or evidence, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence.
• The leading proponents of ID are associated with the Discovery Institute, a Christian, politically conservative think tank based in the United States.
• Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik, a German think tank for the application of digital methods on historical documents.
• As a medical undergraduate, he was never able to find a satisfactory explanation for the interaction of mind and body; he started to think about becoming a neuroscientist.
• And I think it - again, in hindsight - it just bogged down under the weight of trying to satisfy all those things at once.
•  James Cooke Brown with the goal of making a language so different from natural languages that people learning it would think in a different way if the hypothesis were true.
• The range of definitions of literacy used by NGOs, think tanks, and advocacy groups since the 1990s suggests that this shift in understanding from "discrete skill" to "social practice" is both ongoing and uneven.
• Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject's ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds, as well as to change their attitudes, values, and beliefs.
• Another way to think of ontogeny is that it is the process of an organism going through all of the developmental stages over its lifetime.
• In the most recent survey carried out by the Slovak Government's Roma Plenipotentiary, the figure for the percentage of Roma was arrived at through interview with municipality representatives and mayors, according to how many Roma they think live in their jurisdictions.
• It works to uncover the structural patterns that underlie all the things that humans do, think, perceive, and feel.
• The stories regarding Huxley's famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate with Samuel Wilberforce were a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution and in his own career, although some historians think that the surviving story of the debate is a later fabrication.
• – "Hanky Panky" (July 1966, their only RIAA Certified Gold record) and "Crimson and Clover" (February 1969) – and also charted twelve other top 40 hits, including five in the Hot 100's top ten: "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mirage", "Mony Mony", "Sweet Cherry Wine" and "Crystal Blue Persuasion".
• A think tank, or public policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.
• The word "putamen" is from Latin, referring to that which "falls off in pruning", from "putare", meaning "to prune, to think, or to consider".
• The institute was cofounded in 1991 by Bruce Chapman and George Gilder as a non-profit educational foundation and think tank.
• He is best remembered for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final; in the closing minutes, Wolstenholme commented on a series of pitch invaders as Geoff Hurst dribbled down the pitch before scoring, saying "some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over!" The phrase has become deeply embedded in British popular culture.

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