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  1. transitive verb To have or formulate in the mind.
  2. transitive verb To reason about or reflect on; ponder: Think how complex language is. Think the matter through.
  3. transitive verb To decide by reasoning, reflection, or pondering: thinking what to do.
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  • Barry Rubin contrasted careers in American think tanks where the —  Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly.
  • I think one of the biggest things that will help us and continue to help us going forward is the customers we're getting are buying more from us which I think translates into a stickier customer, and they're paying us money, we're not giving it to them up front. —  Gadgets Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • This is what Montréal is up against: A rock and roll exhibit featuring, as far as I can tell, no local examples and just one Canadian, Neil Young (who most people think is American anyway). —  PopMatters
  • Have started listening a little obsessively to La Damnation de Faust which I think is French for That Darned Cat! —  My Favorite Intermissions
  • I'd just like to hear what these blathering fools think is American. —  Think Progress
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idea ·  thought ·  notion ·  prospect ·  possibility ·  consciousness ·  habit ·  intelligence ·  sight ·  attitude ·  practice

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think:   thinking ·  thought ·  thinks
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  1. Middle English thenken, from Old English thencan; see tong- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English thinken, thynken, properly thenken, also assibilated thenchen (preterit thought, thoughte, past participle thought), from Anglo-Saxon thencan, thencean (preterit thohte, past participle thoht) = Old Saxon thenkian = OFries. thanka, thenkia, tensa = Old High German denchan, Middle High German denken, German denken, think, = Icelandic thekkja, perceive (modern Icelandic thenkja = Swedish tȧnka = Danish tænke, think, are influenced by the G.), = Gothic (Moesogothic) thagkjan, think; connected with Anglo-Saxon thanc, etc., thought, thank (see thank); orig. factitive of a strong verb, Anglo-Saxon *thincan, preterit *thanc, past participle *thuncen, which appears only in the secondary form, thyncan (preterit thūhte, etc.), seem: see think, which has been more or less confused with think. Cf. Old Latin tongere, know, tongitio(n-), knowing. For the relation of the modern form think to Anglo-Saxon thencan, cf. that of drink and drench to Anglo-Saxon drencan, and of sink, transitive, to Anglo-Saxon sencan.
  2. from think, v.
  3. from Middle English thinken, thenken, also assibilated thinchen, thunchen (preterit thuhte, thuʒte, thouʒte, thauhte), from Anglo-Saxon thyncan = Old Saxon thunkian = OFries. thinka, thinszia, tinsa = Old High German dunchan, Middle High German dunken, German dünken = Icelandic thykkja = Swedish tycka = Danish tykkes = Gothic (Moesogothic) thugkjan, seem, appear: see think, with which think has been more or less confused.
 

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